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Hi, thanks for your edits. You're doing some great work tidying up post-nominals. It is, though, house style to put a comma between the end of somebody's name and the beginning of their post-nominal letters, eg General Sir Joe Bloggs, GCB, CBE, DSO... The comma just denotes the end of the name, and the post-noms should normally be part a subordinate clause, with another comma after them before the sentence continues. The shortcut to the relevant part of the style guide is "MOS:POSTNOM" in case you don't want to take my word for it. ;) If you think the guide is wrong, you can start a discussion on Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Biographies, and the consensus might (or might not, I honestly don't know) agree with you. Please don't remove any more commas between names and post-noms, but please do keep up your otherwise excellent work. Best, HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 15:03, 4 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Many thanks! I wasn't aware of the protocol for commas - I hope that I haven't done too much damage! Will continue to edit by adding the template, keeping commas in mind. OXONSchoolView (talk) 16:17, 4 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hi guys, could we put a hold on this post-nom tidying for a while and discuss? I think this template is a bit problematic as it works now. Harry, I agree there should be a comma between name and post-noms, however I think that's only applied in the real world when the noms are printed full-size, i.e. "Joe Bloggs, CBE, DSO, DFC". In that case, of course, all the post-noms are comma separated. When post-noms are small, I've always seen them as having no commas anywhere. Now I think it's more common to use full-size post-noms separated by commas, and after I jumped up and down a bit a while back the country=AUS parameter of the template started to allow for this, e.g. if you code "Joe Bloggs, {{post-nominals|country=AUS|CBE,|DSO,|DFC|size=100%}}" then you get "Joe Bloggs, ". I find that when you use the country=GBR parameter, you can employ size=100% but it seems to get its knickers in a knot if put a comma after each post-nom. So perhaps we need to ask the template people to allow for commas in the GBR version as well as the AUS one, since the rules should be the same. Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 13:39, 7 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Happy to pause and wait for a consensus before doing any others. One of the main problems, that I have come across, is that there is very little consistency. Some are 100%, some small, some have commas between post-noms, some have commas between names and post-noms. I think a single template should be developed that we can then apply uniformly. That is what I was attempting to do... OXONSchoolView (talk) 13:45, 7 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Tks, I've posted this at the template doc page. Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 23:52, 7 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hi again, further developments/discussion at the template doc page if you're interested... Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 23:56, 19 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Overlinking

Hallo, WP:OVERLINK points out that names of "Major geographic features and locations ..." should not usually be linked, so I've reverted your change to Girls' Day School Trust. PamD 00:56, 14 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Request reason:

I appear to have been blocked by mistake, for something related to User:MariaJaydHicky, of whom I have no knowledge and have never encountered. It might be an IP overlap issue...

Decline reason:

Hello. There is no block on this account so you are likely being hit by an autoblock. In order to clear this block I need you to post the unblock template given to you in the block notification. Chillum 23:45, 23 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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This user's request to have autoblock on their IP address lifted has been reviewed by an administrator, who accepted the request.

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Block message:

Block evasion: user:MariaJaydHicky

Blocking administrator: Diannaa (talk • blocks)

Accept reason: User is not MariaJaydHicky. Granting user IP block exemption. Diannaa (talk) 18:26, 24 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you OXON. I am going to consult with the administrator who put the block on those IPs. @Diannaa: I suspect this is collateral damage given the age of the account and the lack of block history. Do you think the range block should be set to anon only or do you think IP block exemption is better? If you think the range block has hit its target then let me know and I will take that into account. Chillum 18:09, 24 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

MariaJaydHicky has access to other ranges of IPs and seems to travel throughout that area of England; she frequently creates named accounts in addition to using IPs to edit; hence the way the range block was implemented. Perhaps it would be best to grant the IP block exemption for OXONSchoolView, and remove the range block later if other editors turn out to be affected. OXONSchoolView, please accept my apologies for the inconvenience. -- Diannaa (talk) 18:14, 24 January 2015 (UTC) I've gone ahead and granted the IP block exemption, so you should be able to edit again. -- Diannaa (talk) 18:28, 24 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your quick response Diannaa. OXONSchoolView I hope you understand this was an unavoidable error caused by IP overlap and was not meant to hit you. I hope you continue to contribute to the project. Chillum 18:36, 24 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you both for your quick responses and action. Please don't apologise - I'd much rather these things occasionally happened by accident than such blocking procedures were not in place! OXONSchoolView (talk) 23:10, 24 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hi OXONSchoolView. I have removed the IP block exemption as the range block was altered after a second user complained. -- Diannaa (talk) 19:47, 5 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Many thanks! (OXONSchoolView (talk) 20:36, 5 February 2015 (UTC))[reply]

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