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User page vandalism

Wear it as a badge; somewhere some moron is sulking because you have upset them - probably by being a better human being than them! It also means you are a real wikipedian, I have had to rewrite my own userpage in a vain attempt to attract 'em. Oh well. I suppose "Gulval" is just a ruse - have family there who could ask questions (j/k about the questions, but I do have family there.)

Never mind. I hope it hasn't soured your view of Wikipedia. LessHeard vanU 20:01, 20 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Cornwall stubs

Hi Mammal4, hope you are well, just to let you know that I've created Cornwall stubs and added a lot(!) af articles to it. I'd welcome you taking a look at some of them when you get the chance, as you are someone with a good knowledge of the area. Use {{Cornwall-stub}} to mark an article as a Cornwall stub. DuncanHill 18:45, 31 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Directly (pronounced 'drekkly'), Cornish term, similar in meaning to the Spanish 'mañana, but without the sense of urgency. :) DuncanHill 12:35, 1 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

My welcome

Thanks for the welcome pack Mammal4. It will come in very useful! So far I have been making it up as I go along. I intend to do bits and bobs where needed or when I find things I am interested in. Have a week off from work at the moment so if you have any jobs for me let me know! Thanks again Adek21 17:00, 28 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia behavior

The database slaves have been lagging, and sometimes return content already changed on the master. Thus the odd behaviour today. Matthew Brown (Morven) (T:C) 16:15, 30 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wikibreaks and stuff

I think that you are one of the more relaxed individuals around, and am sad that Wikipedia may lose you. There is a little template which announces that you are on a wikibreak - but it does imply that you are intending to return. I suggest that you do have a break, get some enthusiasm back and perhaps return at some date to topics without the controversy. Hope to see you around. LessHeard vanU 22:51, 11 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Any help?

If you want the (controversial) station usage documents for the UK, Here is:

At least a start. I'm not sure on other countries. Simply south 14:55, 2 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Recent Vandalism to Cornwall-related articles

Hi, I see you've been reverting some of the recent vandalism to Cornish pages. The vandal seems to be making single edits, then changing IP address - but they all start 172. Any idea if we can get the range of IP addresses blocked? DuncanHill 15:00, 8 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks!DuncanHill 22:42, 8 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Penzance

Hi Mammal - I was about to start tinkering with Penzance article - However I notice that you are busy on it today - To avoid edit conflicts I will keep my paws off until later!! Reedgunner 11:41, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for fixing my error

Thanks for catching my oops on User talk:Degen-17! -- JHunterJ 18:14, 27 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Don't stress, but...

Somebody has taken exception to the Penwith Projects policy of using both England and UK in the lead paragraph in articles. This time it is the smaller political unit being removed by an IP address. Doncha just love zealots (any persuasion)? LessHeard vanU 21:32, 3 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Merger

If it is okay, i am going to put up merge tags of Wikipedia:WikiProject geography of Penwith, Cornwall with Wikipedia:WikiProject Cornwall. Simply south 22:25, 11 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome back from your break (of sorts). I've tagged them now and if nobody objects i'll see what i can do. Simply south (talk) 17:44, 27 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Penwith Wikiproject

Hi, I see you are a member of the Penwith Wikiproject. A proposal has been made to merge it with the Cornwall Wikiproject. You can join in the debate here. Best wishes, DuncanHill (talk) 12:14, 5 December 2007 (UTC) (I know you already know about this, I'm just making sure all Penwith participants get a link to the debate.)[reply]

Come back!

We miss you! DuncanHill (talk) 15:04, 12 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Great work on the St Buryan article. Teapotgeorge (talk) 21:26, 12 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Not minor

Hello,

I just wanted to share with you that this was not a minor edit, nor was the edit summary accurate - it was a total rollback of my work.

Alot of the changes I made brought the article more inline with the global and national layout recommendations, as well as removing tiers of formatting to the images that would be a barrier to GA and FA promotion.

I'm not going to revert this, but would ask that you not tag such changes as "Minor" in future and be a little more honest about the change being made. I also think that those kind of changes are symptomatic of why the article has not been promoted to a recognised standard, and consistently so. -- Jza84 · (talk) 03:11, 9 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hello again, and thanks for the contact.

I'm struggling for time to respond in full (sorry), but in short appreciate the response and think there are still ways to take some of the issues forwards. With regards to the infobox, have you considered using Template:Infobox England and Wales civil parish? Using tables as infoboxes is depreciated. Other things like say the has close ties to, I'd change to: "with which it has close commercial/geographic/cultural/ecclesiastic ties with", as appropriate. This defines the claim much more tightly and makes it clear what is meant (surely all parishes contiguous with a single place would have close ties, it just needs that distinction).

I was a little concerned about the comment on the talk page about "consistency nazis", but as the manual of style says "consistency promotes professionalism, simplicity and greater cohesion in Wikipedia articles. An overriding principle is that style and formatting should be applied consistently throughout, unless there is a good reason to do otherwise." I'd be more inclined to at least order the sections according to WP:UKCITIES; this guideline has proven to be very effective in achieving promotions when applied. I hope that helps for now. I would be interested in helping this article. -- Jza84 · (talk) 13:07, 9 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I would also add, regarding "this is a detailed article about a small village in Cornwall, it isn't going to have reams of referencable material available online or even in local libraries. By necessity it contains a great deal of local knowledge, which is what I thought wikipedia was supposed to encourage", that every statement should be attributed to a reliable source. Personal experience and local knowledge is certainly not permissable I'm afraid. Wormshill and Neilston (small villages) obtained WP:FA, and both have pretty much every statement sourced - it is possible. -- Jza84 · (talk) 13:19, 9 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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New to Penzance with camera

Hi

I was looking around and saw your nice picture of Lamorna cove in Cornwall. I intend to go there soon for a fishing trip but haven't been there yet. I saw it on Google Earth software and noticed the link to your photo.

You could email me at paulmgillard (at) btinternet.com if you like.

Cheers Paul

http://www.paulgillard.com

--PMGillard (talk) 15:03, 23 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Map of Penwith

'Hi Mammal4, User:DuncanHill put me on to you. I recently 'blued' all the redlinked parishes in the Caradon and North Cornwall nav boxes and Duncan and I were thinking about adding maps showing the parishes. I've done a few maps recently (see Transport in Cornwall or Geology of Cornwall for examples) and I was hoping you could point me towards some sources and also provide a high-res copy of the Penwith and/or Kerrier maps to guide me. Any help would be much appreciate. There's a section on my talk page if you want to reply Very best wishes, Andy F (talk) 14:36, 18 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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