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Removal of information about former psychiatric hospital[edit]
I am concerned that so much information, with citations, has been removed from this article. People researching their family history are often much in need of this type of first-stop information. Please explain why this has been removed, and why descendants and relatives deserve to lose this information? Sometimes we need this sort of information because the inmates are deserving of compassion, which can then be expressed elsewhere. Thank you. Storye book (talk) 18:21, 20 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I have moved it to a separate article entitled Storthes Hall Hospital to allow proper expansion. The full name of the hospital was Storthes Hall Hospital rather than Storthes Hall. Indeed if you google "Storthes Hall" you will find the primary topic is now a large student village accommodating 1,300 students. Many of the links to the Storthes Hall article ([1]) are associated with students from the University of Huddersfield accessing the article. But I completely agree with you about the importance of retaining information on the hospital. Nothing about the hospital has been lost - indeed I have significantly expanded the information about the hospital (including infobox, more categories etc). And I certainly agree that this sort of information will mean a lot to surviving relatives of former patients. I hope you are OK with this. Best wishes. Dormskirk (talk) 20:02, 20 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
That's brilliant, thank you Dormskirk. Sorry I hadn't seen the hospital article - it's fine. I have no personal association with the subject, but when I photographed the hospital's burial field, it was a moving experience. I hope that one day the hospital article might include some named patients, with some indication of their background. At the moment, because they have no gravestones, they seem to have been erased from history by the policies of past generations. Storye book (talk) 09:55, 21 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Very many thanks for your thoughtful response. Best wishes. Dormskirk (talk) 11:01, 21 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
