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On the project page you can find detailed guides on how to write about counties and settlements, as well as where to find statistics, references and other useful things. Additionally, the following has been identified as specific improvements this article needs: Turn lists into prose, or move to appropriate sub-page: list of places of interest can go on the list of places in Kent page. Get rid of the headings in the polical divisions page: a single 2-3 sentence paragraph does not need its own section. The subject is largely historical, and most of those divisions would go better on the History of Kent page, either keeping an approx. 3 paragraph summary in the Polical subdivisions section, or abolishing that section and incorporating the info in the history and government/politics sections. IMO industries fits better with economy than with physical geography. Either: Move the settlements section as a sub-section of geography and write a 2-3 paragraph summary of major settlements and the important things in/about them. Add a transport/communications sub-section to the geography section. Or: Delete the geography header and make physical geography a top-level header (like it is on many other counties) Make a "Settlements & communications" section. Delete the "Ceremonial county" section: that one sentence belongs in the introduction. This article is supposed to be describing all aspects of the county, including Medway (though noting that Medway is administratively independent). See for example how Poole and Bournemouth are handled in the Dorset article, or Southampton and Portsmouth in the Hampshire article. Cite sources! 2-3 more photos

There are few cities in the US named after Kent.

Kent, Washington even has a Canterberry fair every year.

Yes, take a look at Kent (disambiguation) which is mentioned at the top of this article. Stan 05:53, 11 May 2004 (UTC)

Contents 1 Iron Age tribes 2 Men of Kent/Kentish Men 3 Kent Kent Kent Kent 4 Kent: List of Cities, towns and villages 5 Kent Headrick 6 Dungeness

[edit] Iron Age tribes

Peter Salway talks of an unnamed tribe in the Weald that built more hillforts, and the Atrebates occupying west Kent. Sheppard Frere just has the Regenses there. Anyone know who's right? adamsan 08:24, 30 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Kent Headrick is gay

[edit] Men of Kent/Kentish Men

I dont know enough about it to edit but I notice the paragraph about Kentish Men/Men of Kent appears twice in this short article. Someone who understands this should combine Mrsteviec 05:34, 7 Oct 2004 (UTC)

The article talks of "residents" as being Men of Kent or Kentish Men. Maybe things have changed, but the tradition WAS always that only NATIVES of East Kent were Men of Kent and NATIVES of West Kent were Kentish Men. (I'm a Man of Kent). Timothy Titus 00:31, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Kent Kent Kent Kent

Somehow this article keeps on getting repeated within itself. I have corrected it each time by going back to the revision before the problem crept in. I apologise if any changes are lost. Mrsteviec 15:54, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Kent Headrick likes Brokeback Mountain the movie

[edit] Kent: List of Cities, towns and villages

I have been trying to get to grips with this list, writing at the least stubs where names had just "appeared". Since I have been doing this over the past few weeks I have also discovered the Category:Villages in Kent list which will obviously duplicate (where the Category is added on an article of course) the Kent list. The Category article mentions "at least 400" villages. I have checked one list with the other and found some villages on one and not the other and vice versa.

In the same vein there is also a Category:Towns in Kent.

Could we not reduce the size of the Kent article by cutting out the list completely? There are only two cities - and one of those isn't in the modern Kent! We then only need to make reference to the two categories, which should then gradually include all of each category.

Any comments, please? Peter Shearan

I second that. The categorisation system is always a bit of a disaster when things like this happen! DJR (Talk) 21:33, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Kent Headrick

He's is very odd

[edit] Dungeness

The article mentions a nuclear power station at Dungeness. Would it be over fussy to correct this by pointing out that there are TWO nuclear power stations at Dungeness, built side-by-side? Timothy Titus 00:40, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

be bold and change it then, on the other hand there are many locations of nuclear power plants with more than one reactor.... Pickle 10:59, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

It does seem right to correct it - so I have! - they are very different stations, owned by different power companies, and operated independently. The older one (built 1965) is about to close, though the other still has a few years in it... Timothy Titus 19:04, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

Don't be suprised if the magnox (the old one - Dungerness A) gets a life entension of at least 10 years! Pickle 16:46, 11 October 2006 (UTC)