Talk:Pen-y-ghent

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What is missing in the section of the Etymology is the first occurrence of the name Pen-y-Ghent in written record.

Or, has it been orally transmitted and then noted down in accordance with what the name is assumed to have meant?

Clarification on this point, please. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wjvanb (talk • contribs) 11:45, 15 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I hate to be a pedant, but is it actually a mountain? Isn't it technically a hill? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.193.10.120 (talk) 19:30, 16 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Usually refered to as a hill by walkers, but it is over 1000 feet above its base, it also rises abruptly. Both factors define a mountain. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.194.118.115 (talk) 20:23, 4 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It's over 600 metres and therefore designated a mountain by the British Government.

As good as it gets at the moment.

What I'd like to see in the future.

The large image at the page top is no accident. I wanted to boldly try something new, which is why it may seem ..unusual. WP doesn't normally do that sort of thing. The point is that the whole article now has a compact, print-like appearance. Please let me know what you think of it, good or bad. Regards, nagualdesign (talk) 09:09, 29 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

What I'd really like to see made possible on Wikipedia are these kind of large image headers. As you can see on the article page this dream is far from true at the moment. nagualdesign (talk) 14:53, 11 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

You could always suggest it at the village pump to see what reaction you get. Keith D (talk) 18:39, 11 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Cheers, Keith. :-) nagualdesign (talk) 19:36, 14 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Since the discussion at the Manual of Style talk page has been archived I thought I might copy the opening paragraph here in order to outline the proposal more fully and invite further discussion. Regards, nagualdesign (talk) 09:02, 8 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia seems to crave images. I help out at the Graphic Lab and I'm often amazed by the seeming desparation to get more images onto Wikipedia, as evidenced by the sheer volume of low-quality images uploaded for want of a better image. (Where no image would be preferable, IMO.) And then there's pages like the Main Page and Portal pages that are as ugly as sin. Forgive my nostalgia but when I was a child I used to read encyclopedias for fun, and the images and diagrams were intrinsic to that experience. I'd like to see Wikipedia change drastically in terms of graphical content. Not just thumbnails everywhere but some sort of modern day illumination, with greater freedom of expression possible, making WP a more appealing read. By way of an example, what does anyboby think of this mockup of a graphical page header? (Further links are in the image description.) Any comments would be appreciated.

It's Penyghent in Ekwall's English Placenames (1960) and in the BBC Pronouncing Dictionary of British Names (1983). Who decided to put hyphens in, when and why? Given that nobody agrees what the element ghent means, could we be sure of the accuracy of Pen-y-Ghent over Pen-Yghent? Paul S (talk) 02:23, 8 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

FWIW, Ordnance Survey (2014) calls it Pen-y-ghent. nagualdesign (talk) 03:11, 8 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]