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Recent county edits (flags, Leicestershire, Cornwall)

Hi Mac12t. I'd like to explain my recent revisions, as edit summaries can seem cold and that's not my intention.

When it comes to the county flags our source is the Flag Institute, which considers them to represent the historic counties. The infoboxes of the ceremonial county articles are about the ceremonial counties, which are a different form of county and sometimes have very different boundaries to the historic counties (e.g. Lancashire). If we use the historic flag in the infobox it confuses matters, and English counties are already quite confusing!

At Leicestershire you undid my recent edit to the lead without explanation, so I've undone it and restored my version. I made the original edit in good faith and I believe it's a genuine improvement to the article. It also follows the format of the other county leads I've been working on recently, several of which you've seen and haven't reverted. If you'd like to explain what the problem was in this case I'm very happy to listen.

Finally, I can see why 'historic region' was added to Cornwall's lead, as it has a unique status as a Celtic nation as well as a county. Nevertheless, I don't think it's necessary to include the phrase in the first sentence. Cornwall's boundaries were set in the tenth century, so it's as old as many other counties and we don't describe them as 'historic regions'. I think the rest of the lead does a good job of explaining its history and status.

If you want to raise anything else please do, but I hope this explains my edits somewhat. Thanks, A.D.Hope (talk) 22:50, 30 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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