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Independent

Hi - thanks for your message. I've always linked every independent - and, in most cases, there are one or two at most, so it's not a great issue. I do prefer to have them all linked, as that seems most likely to avoid any potential confusion and get consistency although, as you say, it can get rather repetitive in cases such as Luton South. Warofdreams talk 11:18, 23 April 2010 (UTC)

New Scottish constituencies and regions

We should really start the new articles ASAP, now that the final Boundary Commission version is clear. However, I personally have no great desire to pump hours of my time into creating 73 stubs (+ the new region stubs).

I recommend that we draw up a quick template, with perhaps only a couple of lines of actual text, but with standard Ref, See also, and Ext link sections, and just get the ball rolling. Let other editors fill them out a bit as desired.--Mais oui! (talk) 05:06, 15 May 2010 (UTC)

2010-11 Northern Premier League

Thanks :) I've become a bit of a non-league geek over the past year or so, so I had to get all the new info ready ASAP! Good luck to Burscough next season, and enjoy those away trips! Cheers, Bretonbanquet (talk) 11:56, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

Notional results

Hi Doktorbuk. You're right, notionals are guesswork, but they have to be used. The Rochdale constituency which exists now is not the same one which existed last month: it may share its name and most of its area, but it's a different creation. It's incorrect to quote changes as you have done, as you're not comparing like with like. Wereon (talk) 12:42, 2 June 2010 (UTC)

I've started a discussion on Misplaced Pages talk:WikiProject Politics of the United Kingdom regarding this, if you're interested. Wereon (talk) 16:25, 8 June 2010 (UTC)

A boil shed

Happy to be of assistance. (Ass-sit-ance, perhaps?) --Ser Amantio di Nicolao_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 20:30, 8 June 2010 (UTC)

Boundary info

Hi! Happy to be able to help, it's a huge area of information that's really interesting and I can see that you've done loads of valuable work already. Hopefully I'll be able to help improve articles in some small way, you are not alone! If there's anything in particular you'd like any help getting through just shout. Oxenhillshaw (talk) 17:01, 11 June 2010 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of 2010 United Kingdom general election result in Glasgow

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Compact election box

Hi Doktorbuk

Hope you're well.

If you have a few minutes to spare, I'd value your thoughts on Misplaced Pages talk:WikiProject UK Parliament constituencies#Compact election box. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 23:47, 4 July 2010 (UTC)

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Saw this and thought of you

http://www.esds.ac.uk/findingData/snDescription.asp?sn=3803 contains the following:

con65-74.txt - UK Parliamentary constituency names; 1965 to 28 Feb 1974
con74-83.txt - UK Parliamentary constituency names; Mar 1974 to 9 Jun 1983
con83-91.txt - UK Parliamentary constituency names; 10 Jun 1983 to end 1991

Dunno if that helps any, but there y'go. regards, Anameofmyveryown (talk) 16:41, 3 September 2010 (UTC)

Reviewer

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Invitation to join WikiProject United States

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Reversion of Witney

You may have an opinion :) http://en.wikipedia.org/User_talk:Wereon#Reversion_of_Witney Cheers. Crooked cottage (talk) 23:49, 13 January 2011 (UTC)

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WP:DAW

Please try to remember not to abbreviate Misplaced Pages as Wiki if you can. Thanks. --Yair rand (talk) 08:31, 7 February 2011 (UTC)

With all due respect, I will refer to Misplaced Pages however I see fit depending on context. "Wiki" is as much acceptable shorthand as "US" for the country inbetween Canada and Mexico. doktorb _words 19:04, 7 February 2011 (UTC)

Would you mind taking the time to read Misplaced Pages:Don't abbreviate Misplaced Pages as Wiki, if you haven't? It offers a pretty good explanation of why using "Wiki" is problematic. --Yair rand (talk) 21:15, 7 February 2011 (UTC)

I have. And whilst I understand the issue, I am not going to go out of my way to follow the rule, tbh. When I talk about "having a bit of a Wiki addiction", more people than not will immediately think of this place. If it's a biggie all of a sudden, then I'll look out for correcting myself in edit summaries and such, though please don't start keeping a tally because it's not the most important factor round these parts at the moment. doktorb _words 22:03, 7 February 2011 (UTC)

Dundee City

Hey I asked the question what to do with these sort of minor changes here, the consensus was to keep the original articles and create an entire new one :) --Barryob (Contribs) (Talk) 15:39, 20 February 2011 (UTC)

Page titles

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2010 electorate figures

Evening

I saw your comment on Mirrorme22's excellent work in adding the 2010 electorate figures - which has largely saved me a job so great. I don't know whether you saw the discussion between BHG and myself regarding these figures a few weeks ago and how I wanted to add them in to List of United Kingdom Parliament constituencies as a separate column from the already existing December 2000 figure, so that the reader can see the figures which brought about the current lot of constituencies, and the ones which will create the new lot. (At this point I inferred that BHG would rather drop the 2000 figures, but I may be wrong).

Given you have created the Sixth_Periodic_Review_of_Westminster_constituencies page I would have thought only the new constituencies and theor electorates would go in there, but I'm not sure of how you are planning. Thoughts? I know the discussion needs to go on WT:UKPC before I do anything, but your ideas are key here I believe. I was going to wait, but we now have all the constituency articles out of line with the list, which I would like to resolve sooner rather than later.

Thanks. Crooked cottage (talk) 20:15, 9 March 2011 (UTC)

Community restrictions

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Mo ainm~Talk 12:21, 11 March 2011 (UTC)

Regarding your comments here, there is no requirement that a template has to be placed on the talk page to be under the community restrictions, and edits to the article relating to Gerry Adams are clearly under the definition above. O Fenian (talk) 16:04, 11 March 2011 (UTC)

Please self revert that edit, or I will request arbitration enforcement. Thank you. O Fenian (talk) 18:26, 11 March 2011 (UTC)

Infobox for Barnsley Central by-election, 2011

Hi - I see that you undid my edit to add names to the infobox for this article, without explanation. I made the change following a discussion on the talk page of the article which appears to have reached consensus. If you disagree, please join in with the discussion. Warofdreams talk 17:10, 11 March 2011 (UTC)

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