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Oldham is a former featured article. Please see the links under Article milestones below for its original nomination page (for older articles, check the nomination archive) and why it was removed.

This article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page as Today's featured article on September 13, 2012.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
November 4, 2007	Peer review	Reviewed
November 18, 2007	Featured article candidate	Promoted
August 28, 2021	Featured article review	Demoted

Current status: Former featured article

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County Palatine[edit]

Oldham remains within the County Palatine of Lancaster. To quote part of the wording of the Lancashire article, "While the administrative boundaries changed in the 1970s, the county palatine boundaries remain the same as the historic boundaries.^[1] As a result, the High Sheriffs for Lancashire, Greater Manchester and Merseyside are appointed "within the Duchy and County Palatine of Lancaster".*^[2]

Referring to this in the lead might calm the spates of reversions between 'Greater Manchester; and 'Lancashire'. Urselius (talk) 10:02, 1 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ "House of Commons Hansard Debates for 15 Jun 1992". parliament.uk. Archived from the original on 20 November 2017. Retrieved 2 September 2017.
^ High Sheriffs, The Times, 21 March 1985

FAR notice[edit]

Sitush mentioned some concerns with this article's FA status above, and I share those concerns. It seems like unsourced sentences (and even a paragraph in the Economy section) have been added by editors since this FA's promotion, which need to be checked for notability, sourced, and integrated properly into the article. Is anyone willing to undertake this? If not, it may be submitted to WP:FAR. Z1720 (talk) 01:51, 11 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

FA status[edit]

For info, the article reached FA status on 18 November 2007 with this version. PamD 16:19, 17 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Demographics update[edit]

I've added the population, area and density for BUASD and Local Authority, from 2011 census, to the lead. I don't know where the poplaton and area figures in the infobox came from, so have left them alone for now. PamD 16:50, 17 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Sport[edit]

I've done a bit of work on the sport section - someone who knows about local cricket etc might be able to improve. PamD 18:05, 17 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

[1] "House of Commons Hansard Debates for 15 Jun 1992". parliament.uk. Archived from the original on 20 November 2017. Retrieved 2 September 2017.

[2] High Sheriffs, The Times, 21 March 1985

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