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Nature reserves

Hi - I thought you might be interested to know that I've created Category:Nature reserves in England by county and started creating subcategories for each of the counties. SP-KP 12:08, 27 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Indeed. Thank you, both for doing so, and for letting me know. Andy Mabbett 12:09, 27 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ridiculous vandalism to my talk page

Just a thanks for reverting edits by User:0Andrew0 on my user talk page. I contacted an admin yesterday over the users edits. It's an odd situation as the user had previously contributed usefully to Wikipedia and has suddenly turned into a nuisance editor. - Erebus555 19:04, 27 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Revert Parole

Under your arbitration case at Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Pigsonthewing, you were placed on revert parole, limiting you to one revert per article per week. Per this clarification, the revert parole was suspended during your one year ban but remains in force. The revert parole is a better way of dealing with your problematic behavior than topical bans, so I am hereby rescinding the ban I placed on your making infobox-related edits. However be aware that you are limited to one revert per article per week, and note that in past cases the arbitrators have indicated that "article" is meant to include all project pages including templates. Thatcher131 15:05, 28 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Joseph Chamberlain Memorial Clock Tower

Hi. I've noticed that the bell weights given at Joseph Chamberlain Memorial Clock Tower and University of Birmingham are different (one is 6.5 tonnes, the other 6.5 tons), and the one specified at Joseph Chamberlain Memorial Clock Tower seems to have changed from 6 to 6.5 tonnes at some stage. Any idea which is correct? Cordless Larry 18:46, 28 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

No idea, sorry. Andy Mabbett 18:47, 28 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

OK, no worries. I've asked the editor who originally added it. Cordless Larry 18:53, 28 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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reverts

hi, appreciate your vigour with some of my contribs! im new to this so woudl appreacite before reverting my changes you give me a chace to add further details.

e.g. on st philips cathedral you reverted what you saw as a fact (not sure what it was) but on another article on birmingham redevelopement scheme you merely added citation required tags. instead of reverting i would appreciate the same approach, as i usually save so i can go and find the citations i have and copy paste them in, which takes me some time to do as ii'm not used to it, and thenf ind you have reverted in the meantime. regards UKbandit 16:30, 29 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Don't worry about the Birmingham Redevelopment Scheme. I am currently re-writing the article, hence the inuse tag, though my Firefox has run into a bit of trouble and has remained 'Not responding' for about 35 minutes now. I should have saved it as I was going along (I was nearly finished :( ) - Erebus555 17:36, 29 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ouch! we all get bitten like that, at least once. Andy Mabbett 17:37, 29 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

By some sort of miracle, it didn't get deleted. It was some pesky pdf file I was going to use as a citation which caused it to crash. - Erebus555 17:59, 29 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

David Gilmour contributions - Give Birth To A Smile

I didn't delete the song, just put it after the Syd Barrett albuns since Music from "The Body" was released later. Black Condor 02:00, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Co-ordinates again

Silly question - is it IE6 or should the co-ordinates displayed at the top of the page be touching the title line (look at Bridge Street or Glasgow Central. --Stewart 14:34, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

No idea - I suggest you ask on the talk page for whichever skin you're using. Andy Mabbett 14:54, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Coor vs. coord

Just cc-ing you on my response in Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (dates and numbers):

Adding geodata to Wikipedia is a huge project, and requires stable standards. This doesn't mean we can't ever change them, but when we do, we should take care to do so in a measured way.

What bothers me is the constant changes of course, as one group or another declares their proposal to be the one-and-only official format. I'd actually be quite happy with {{coord}}, providing that the major downstream reusers are happy with it too. At the moment, our major users of geodata are the Kolossus team at de:Wikipedia:WikiProjekt Georeferenzierung and Google. If you want to get {{coord}} accepted, I suggest you get both those groups to buy into it.

User:Gmaxwell seems to have made some fairly reasonable and balanced comments about this. de:Benutzer:Stefan Kühn is probably the best person to talk to at the Kolossus team. Evan Martin from Google participates in Wikitech-l. If you can get all of these people happy with using {{coord}} data, I would be quite happy to support a proposal for standardizing on it. Otherwise, without consensus among major generators and users of geodata, sticking with the status quo, even if it's ugly, will sadly remain the best option. -- The Anome 14:58, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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 [[User:Gmaxwell]] seems to have made some fairly reasonable and balanced comments about this. [[de:Benutzer:Stefan Kühn]] is probably the best person to talk to at the Kolossus team. Evan Martin from Google participates in Wikitech-l. If you can get all of these people happy with using {{tl|coord}} data,  I would be quite happy to support a proposal for standardizing on it. Otherwise, without consensus among major generators and users of geodata, sticking with the status quo, even if it's ugly, will sadly remain the best option. -- [[User:The Anome|The Anome]] 14:58, 2 June 2007 (UTC)
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