User talk:Local yokel

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Links

Don't take this the wrong way, I'm very happy that somebody is editing national league club pages but you might want to look through the tutorial especially the bits about links. For example you changed a link for the Huddersfield Giants to a link to the city of Huddersfield, a link to a Challenge Cup article became a link to a non-existant article on Challenge Cup finals and the NL1 template stopped working became you capitalised the 'L' in "Rugby league".

This is why I have changed some of your edits. If you need any help just leave a message on my talk page. Other than that I like your work and keep editing!GordyB 22:53, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Greater Manchester

Please note we use the Ceremonial counties of England as a geographic frame of reference on Wikipedia. See the Wikipedia:Naming conventions (places) about the use of counties. We do not use historic, former administrative or former postal counties.

Stating that places within Greater Manchester are in Lancashire will be reverted by the editting community, as shown on the Bernard Manning article. Hope that helps, Jhamez84 13:32, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

I see you like to ignore friendly advise. A further infringement of the naming conventions will be reported. Please also use Edit summaries when contributing to our encyclopedia. Jhamez84 23:42, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

Barrie Rutter

Hallo: you're quite right to correct the name of Salt's Mill by adding the apostrophe, but unfortunately this broke the link: the Wikipedia page has the title "Salts Mill". (There's a way to "Move" a page by changing its title, but I haven't explored this yet: could be the best solution long-term!). I've now changed this to [[Salts Mill|Salt's Mill]]: this makes the link correctly (the first component) but also appears correctly in the Rutter article (the second component). If you use "Show Preview" when you've done an edit you can see whether something turns into a red link, which alerts you to a problem like this one. PamD 07:22, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

In fact it's more complicated - there seems no agreement as to whether it's "Salts" or "Salt's"! I've made a redirect from the latter, and added a note to the article about this. But the point remains - if you change something even slightly, please check that any links still work, and fix them if they get broken. Thanks. PamD 15:35, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

Stop removing Greater Manchester and Merseyside from articles. And use Edit Summaries from now on.

Rhinoceros

Hi. I noticed you changed the spelling of a book title (Chinese Clay Figures, Part I: Prolegomena on the History of Defence Armor) from U.S. to UK English. As the book was published in Chicago it is likely to have used U.S. English spelling. Please be very careful about making edits like this; unless you have a good reason to do so it is frowned upon to change between versions of English like this. Best wishes --John 17:16, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

Your edits

Please be more careful when copyediting articles and take due notice of the context in which they are written. Your recent changes to Australia, for example, were almost wholly unhelpful: you made incorrect spelling changes and broke wiki markup. Regards, --cj | talk 01:42, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

Some of your edits break links to existing articles

In the David Livingstone article, although some of your edits are helpful, changing 'Zambezi River' to 'River Zambezi' and 'Lualaba River' to 'River Lualaba' is pointless because it just breaks the links to the articles Zambezi River and Lualaba River. Changing 'Civilization' to 'Civilisation' is also pointless: British English allows both spellings but American English allows only 'Civilization', so the latter is preferred. Furthermore since it's part of a quotation ('His motto, inscribed in the base of the statue to him at Victoria Falls, was "Christianity, Commerce and Civilization"') you should not change it unless you can show that the actual statue inscription uses the 'Civilisation' spelling rather than the 'z' spelling which is also used in British English. Regards, Rexparry sydney 02:41, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

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