Talk: Cornwall
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When will the Government ever deal with this issue?
I mean seriously...we're all here fighting amongst ourselves about the status of Cornwall when the government of the UK does nothing. I mean, shouldn't a cross-opinion committee be set up or something to once and for all come to a conclusion on this. At least hold a real plebisite to poll the feelings of the people who actually live there. I would imagine the question card would go something like this:
1. Do you believe Cornwall should receive its own legislature on parr with the National Assembly for Wales or the Scottish Parliament?
2. Do you believe Cornwall constitutes a nation in itself separate in culture and history from that of England?
3. Do you believe the Cornish language should be made co-official with English throughout Cornwall with all the rights afforded to the English language in the legal system and schooling?
Perhaps the interest in Cornish indepedence is percieved to be too little to bother addressing it? I've lived in Cornwall for nearly 10 years and haven't ever known any one who was particularly concerned, even people who have lived here their entire lives. Of course this is just my experience... --pomegranate 23:39, Aug 2, 2004 (UTC)
As an incomer perhaps you are unaware of the feeling. Insult Cornwall and you will find out the amount of feeling. And I too am not a native-born Cornishman
Wikipedia presents, and argues, about information. Let someone else act as a pressure group to change government action. -- garryq 15:58, 5 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Politics and language
'Although the Cornish people have always had their own distinctive culture, identity and language'.
Perhaps this was the case hundreds of years ago, but it is not the case today.
The sentence is misleading and is from the point of view of Cornish nationalists rather than NPOV. It does make it explicit that today there are very little/no real differences in culture and identity of the cornish people from the rest of England and the language is virtually extinct - spoken by 3,500 out 508,412 cornish people (0.68%). Deus Ex 22:47, 23 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Inappropriate links
It seems like a couple of the external links from this page are very low quality resources compared to the extremely large amount of quality, relevant Cornish interest sites out there. Cornwall ranks 3 or 4 in the DMOZ for number of sites in county and I could name at least 10 sites that are quality resources off the top of my head. I'm not going to point out which links I'm referring to as I think they are fairly obvious - they seem to be light on information and heavy on advertising. I'm sure one is a scrape of the DMOZ. I'm not sure of the process to remove spam from Wikipedia and am not sure if this is the right place to bring it up. However, if I can't figure it out it seems reasonable to edit it myself and wait for a response!
Sorry, got too impatient: Removed external (IMHO spam) links - http://www.plymouthcity.com/Directory/Cornwall/index.html Cornwall Web Directory and http://www.thereabouts.co.uk/cornwall/ I guess they should be removed from here aswell! I will however put up some quality resources of which tere are many (not self-interest) in the near future
