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How do you make the pager redirect automatically? I'm reasonably new and still learning how to edit.
#REDIRECT [[Whereever]] Morwen 10:25, Jan 26, 2004 (UTC)
Sweet
This term has never been used or defined in legislation. Since you are so eager to call UAAs "counties" simply because this is what they were called when created, "ceremonial counties" should be similarly treated and called "Lieutenencies" or "Lieutenency areas" - this is their legal status, not the ABCs. It is also rather more descriptive than "ceremonial county", which could mean anything, and is thus more appropriate in an encyclopaedia. User:80.255
Having fun I see :-) ho-hum. PS did you reply to my last email cause if you did I didn't get it G-Man 16:03, 4 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Borken hey, You'll have to email me via the wikipedia email I think, as that seems to work G-Man 20:20, 5 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Hi Morwen,
Thanks for resolving the Mikheil/ Mikhail Saakashvili dispute. I would be grateful if you could also take a look at the related Zviad Gamsakhurdia article, which is being subjected to an edit war by the same user responsible for the Mikheil Saakashvili debacle. As you'll see from Wikipedia:Problem users, several users (including myself) are unhappy that User:Levzur keeps making POV changes to articles but refuses to discuss them (see Talk:Zviad Gamsakhurdia for the "discussion" of that article, which pretty much consists of rants from his side and appeals for discussion from mine). I would be grateful if you could lock the Zviad Gamsakhurdia article until such time as he decides to start discussing his changes. Thanks for any help! -- ChrisO 08:35, 5 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Hi Morwen,
There is something missing from the first part of
South Gloucestershire. It says "South Gloucestershire is a local government, created in 1996 when the
county of Avon was abolished.
Could you fill in what should come after "government"?
Thanks
Adrian Pingstone 10:39, 6 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Hello Morwen, I've drawn up a map of Warwickshire here media:Warwickshiremap 700.png which shows both its modern and historic boundaries, do you like it?, If so I think it might now be safe to unprotect the warks article so I can add it G-Man 22:49, 6 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Thanks, but there are only so many hours in the day ;). I think I'll reload it in JPEG format, not really surposed to do that with drawings but my computer cant seem to cope with PNG G-Man 23:10, 6 Jan 2004 (UTC)
OK I should be able to add the borough boudaries. Not sure about how to represent overflowing Birmingham though, I surpose it says that already in the article G-Man 23:18, 6 Jan 2004 (UTC)
This better media:Warwickshiremap 700.jpg G-Man 23:39, 6 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Rough - but feeling better than I did this morning. Secretlondon 15:17, Jan 7, 2004 (UTC)
What is transient? Its up for debate but I'm thinking of fame for less than 15 minutes. We just don't want be a collection of every bit of US media hype. I know it's not precise. Secretlondon 15:53, Jan 7, 2004 (UTC)
Since you turned New Party into a disambiguation, can you please fix all the links at [4]? -- Jia ng 22:32, 7 Jan 2004 (UTC)
What do you think of the wording at the Warwickshire article especially in the traditional county section. Sorry to keep going on about counties I cant think of anything better to do at the moment (really should get a life I know). :PS did you get my last email BTW G-Man 22:59, 8 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Hi, there's a vote going on at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Peerage about how to handle naming articles on peers. Just contacting everyone who's posted over there to inform them. john 06:21, 9 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Hey, check out the complete hash that User:Zestauferov has made of Prussia. All the material on the Hohenzollern Kingdom which became a Weimar Land has been moved to the inaccurate page Brandenburg-Prussia. john 05:27, 10 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Just wondering, do you know if there are any plans for Northampton to become a unitary authority?. Its certainly large enough to be one, if so I should mention it in the article G-Man 17:02, 10 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Thanks, that's certainly rather odd seem as Northampton has a population of nearly 200,000. Another thing if I was to draw some more county maps, do you know where I could find some maps which shows district boundaries etc, cause I copied the warks one from a book.
BTW: where do you get your information from. G-Man 17:22, 10 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Hi Morwen I've added towns which to my knowledge have some green belt space between them and the London Conurbation but are part of the London economy. I don’t think political administration ( eg by London Boroughs) is sufficient to exclude places set apart by green space. eg Purley is not a part of London but is administered with the London Borough Of Croydon. The article points out what a loose concept commuter belt is. I prefer the more precise Satellite town . Lumos3 20:11, 10 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Thanks for the delete of Thunderbird! I was looking for an admin to do just that! - UtherSRG 21:05, 10 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Greetings again, Morwen. I see that you have chosen to vote against a rule requiring that titles of peers appear in the titles of biographical articles on them. Forgive me for taking the liberty of attempting to convince you to change your position.
It is my considered opinion that, in general, the addition of peerage titles does no harm, while their deduction does no good. Take, for instance, the case of Horatio Nelson. What harm is caused by writing instead Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson? But indeed I find that subtracting the title detracts from the article, for the title provides a clue to the origin of the appellation "Lord Nelson". With the appropriate redirects, the inclusion of a title should cause no problem.
It can be suggested that if the exclusion of a title does not detract, then it is acceptable to exclude. However, such an exception - which is perhaps what you have voted for - can be wildly misinterpreted by other users, who will find that not mentioning, say, "Earl of Chatham" in William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, will cause no negative effects whatsoever - failing to realise that Pitt was known as "Chatham" rather than "Pitt" for a significant portion of his career.
A further insinuation can be made to the effect that the "most common name" rule should prevail. Unfortunately such a rule cannot be easily applied in the cases of peers. For the most common name is, say in the case of the Viscount Nelson, "Lord Nelson", which is entirely ambiguous, for one does not necessarily know whether one is referring to Horatio Nelson, or his brother William Nelson (1st Earl Nelson), or the Earl Nelson's heirs. This can be extended and generalised for other peers as well.
So, my general thought is that more information (to a reasonable extent) is better than less. Note the reasonability standard - I have no hopes of seeing the crude, awkward, and unwieldy article titles mentioning every last one of the peer's titles. One hopes to have convinced you to change your vote. Feel free to respond on my talk page. -- Clarence Threepwood, 9th Earl of Emsworth
But returning to the original point, nothing would be lost by adding peerage titles to article titles. The titles, by no means, would become too clumsy. What would be lost if they were removed is consistency, and, more importantly, accuracy, for the peerage title is considered to be a part of the name of the individual in question. -- Lord Emsworth 19:11, Jan 11, 2004 (UTC)
Hi Morwen, thanks for writing Russian Provisional Government, 1917 - I planned to do it myself after fixing the numerous links, and will extend it now. Kosebamse 14:50, 12 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Hello Morwen, what exactly was that plan about North Warwickshire becoming a UA you were talking about, I havn't found any reference to it anywhere. Does it entail expanding it to include Tamworth or something?.
PS: I have a feeling youre email isn't working, just to let you know. G-Man 20:06, 14 Jan 2004 (UTC)
OH OK I surpose Warwickshire is a rather silly entity in it's present form. It might make sense I surpose to merge Nuneaton & Bedworth with Coventry UA, seem as both town's are basically just an extension of Coventry in all but name (hope no-one from Nuneaton is reading this). But that's just me speculating. G-Man 20:37, 14 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Changing the subject slightly, I sent you an email a few days ago. I dont know whether you have received it/ replied to it and I havn't received youre reply. Or you dont want to reply to it. Or you're emails broken, just I'm rather confused as to what's going on G-Man 21:12, 14 Jan 2004 (UTC)
I take it by youre silence you dont want to reply, thats OK. Although it would be more polite if you just said so rather than ignoring me. I havn't upset you or something have I?. G-Man 22:16, 14 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Oh OK thanks, I apologise for my previous comment G-Man 22:56, 14 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Can you please add a dispute notice to Anti-Zionism? (''The neutrality of this article is [[Wikipedia:NPOV dispute|disputed]].''). That version is very strongly disputed. ( 1 2) -- Zw 13:29, 15 Jan 2004 (UTC)
According to my sources, Birmigham became a city in 1896 not 1889, it says that in the Brum article, It became a county borough in 1889 which is not the same thing. G-Man 21:06, 16 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Actually some sources say Birmingham was made a city in 1889 and some say it was 1896 so I'me not entirely sure which is right.
PS: did you get my email reply. G-Man 22:29, 16 Jan 2004 (UTC)
About those maps you've been adding. Wouldent it make more sense to put those maps on the county pages and put numbers on the individual districts/boroughs, and have a numbered list of the different districts/boroughs alongside, like I did on the Warwickshire map.
Because for example the map on the Birmingham page has no context explaining what the map is about, which might confuse readers. Did you draw the maps by-the-way?. G-Man 20:57, 20 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Morwen, thanks for chipping in on the Georgian Orthodox and Apostolic Church page. Please keep an eye on it, though, as Levzur will almost certainly try to revert the most recent changes (check out the discussion - if you can call it that - on the related talk page). -- ChrisO 22:53, 20 Jan 2004 (UTC)
I don't differentiate between Bradford the Council and Bradford the place. I know the council includes outlying places such as Shipley but I'd just include them as districts. It may be of course that people from these districts are offended by the Bradford connection and change them but I'd just include. Secretlondon 18:10, Jan 21, 2004 (UTC)
Morwen, I find the maps you've been adding to the political divisions of Wales to be a useful touch, but regarding them as Just Another User, I would find it useful if you provided the map of the "current" boundaries with a useful label, say "Powys Current Boundaries" or "Powys 1996 -".
While on the topic of Powys, it appears to me that the map of the boundaries for 1974 - 1996 are identical to the map of the current boundaries. is that so? Or are my eyes deceiving me? If the boundaries haven't changed since 1996, why do we need a second map? -- llywrch 20:22, 22 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Hi, I saw you've added excellent maps to some of the current Scottish regions (at least for Stirling and Falkirk). On a related note, I'm inclined to think that Stirling and Falkirk should refer to the cities/towns of those names, and Stirling Council or Stirling (unitary authority) (sigh, why couldn't they have called it "Stirlingshire" or something sensible...). Do you know whether this has already been discussed somewhere, or if there's an appropriate wikiproject to which I should turn for guidance. Thanks! -- Finlay McWalter 22:58, 22 Jan 2004 (UTC)
My you have been busy!. Are you going to do the same thing with the West Midlands (county) page as you've done with the Greater Manchester article and put the map numbered with districts there instead of on the individual articles BTW?, I personally think thats a much better way of doing it G-Man 23:40, 22 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Can we keep Brighton about Brighton and Hove about Hove please. Whilst they have very recently become a city, they have for a very long time had separate identities and the majority of the article refers to the History of Brighton and has virtually nothing about Hove. Locals still say that they live in either Brighton or Hove and not in the city of Brighton & Hove. Also if you are refering to the city it is almost invariably rendered as "Brighton & Hove" (and may indeed be the official rendering [7]) rather than "Brighton and Hove". Mintguy (T) 23:53, 24 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Well that may well be the case the council render it with the "&" in their official logo (as above) and this is how it appears on most if not all signage and documents related to the city. Mintguy (T) 00:18, 25 Jan 2004 (UTC)
I'm curious what program you're using to generate all your maps? I was considering making a map of the sea areas (Fisher, Dogger, etc.) for the Shipping Forecast page, and the original source (in whatever vectorised format you're using) of the British Isles map would make a handy (and consistent) jumping-off point for me. Thanks! -- Finlay McWalter 19:49, 27 Jan 2004 (UTC)
I've moved the article from South Bucks to South Buckinghamshire, so if you want to go and work your magic with the maps now it might encourage someone to destub the page. Incidentally, I've had to correct spellings on at least two articles that I'm watching that you've updated recently: a misspelling of "Wycombe" and a statement that Buckinghamshire is adjacent to Herefordshire. -- Graham :) 00:38, 28 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Hi Morwen, you're doing a fantastic job producing all of these maps. :) I think these pages would really benefit from larger maps showing the principal towns and cities in each region (which would fit in very well in all the white space to the right of the town/village lists). Is this something you're thinking of doing in the future? (Er, not to heap more work on your plate or anything!). I wouldn't know how to go about that sort of graphic wizardry myself. I think my next big project after I've dealt with the anniversary pages ( January 1 etc) which are all getting reformatted a bit so they match and are NPOV (very tedious) will be to lend a hand with the UK geography and individual county/town pages. Again, love the maps, Fabiform 02:58, 28 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Sorry Morwen another comment about maps. Just thinking wouldent it be better to put the district maps on a seperate page about the districts rather than putting them on the articles about towns, like I've done with Warwick. For example the article Tamworth is about the town and not the district, therefore putting a map of the district could be somewhat confusing to uninitiated readers. Good work your doing BTW.
Oh yes, are you going to reply to my last email. G-Man 22:53, 29 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Er I dont seem to have got it, try again (must be the secret agents at work again, intercepting your emails :)) G-Man 23:43, 29 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Hi Morwen, I just stumbled upon your Template:GFDL message. There is a list where such messages are listed at: Wikipedia:MediaWiki custom messages. I don't know if you forgot to link it there, or if you didn't know about it, so I just figured I'd drop you a note. Dori | Talk 06:19, Jan 30, 2004 (UTC)
Hi. Well done on the maps, well overdue for someone to do this. But I think you may have had a problem with a few. The one for Lewes for example. Mintguy (T) 15:23, 31 Jan 2004 (UTC)
A lot of the maps which you've recently dowloaded dont seem to open. For instance Daventry, the image name just sit there with a red cross next to them. I dont know whether this is just a problem on my computer or something. G-Man 13:57, 1 Feb 2004 (UTC)
Congratulations on banishing red links from MPs elected in the UK general election, 2001. That's a lot of politicians, and a job well done. -- rbrwr ˆ
Good work on all those maps! But it appears that your Indonesian map is missing the border between Gorontalo and Sulawesi Utara (see [9]). -- Wik 20:16, Feb 3, 2004 (UTC)
Are you aware that the various maps you created for the districts of Buckinghamshire no longer work? Is it a link issue or do they not exist any more? -- Graham :) 21:18, 3 Feb 2004 (UTC)
Archived talk: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 11, 12, 13, 14 15. 16. Current talk: User_talk:Morwen
How do you make the pager redirect automatically? I'm reasonably new and still learning how to edit.
#REDIRECT [[Whereever]] Morwen 10:25, Jan 26, 2004 (UTC)
Sweet
This term has never been used or defined in legislation. Since you are so eager to call UAAs "counties" simply because this is what they were called when created, "ceremonial counties" should be similarly treated and called "Lieutenencies" or "Lieutenency areas" - this is their legal status, not the ABCs. It is also rather more descriptive than "ceremonial county", which could mean anything, and is thus more appropriate in an encyclopaedia. User:80.255
Having fun I see :-) ho-hum. PS did you reply to my last email cause if you did I didn't get it G-Man 16:03, 4 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Borken hey, You'll have to email me via the wikipedia email I think, as that seems to work G-Man 20:20, 5 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Hi Morwen,
Thanks for resolving the Mikheil/ Mikhail Saakashvili dispute. I would be grateful if you could also take a look at the related Zviad Gamsakhurdia article, which is being subjected to an edit war by the same user responsible for the Mikheil Saakashvili debacle. As you'll see from Wikipedia:Problem users, several users (including myself) are unhappy that User:Levzur keeps making POV changes to articles but refuses to discuss them (see Talk:Zviad Gamsakhurdia for the "discussion" of that article, which pretty much consists of rants from his side and appeals for discussion from mine). I would be grateful if you could lock the Zviad Gamsakhurdia article until such time as he decides to start discussing his changes. Thanks for any help! -- ChrisO 08:35, 5 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Hi Morwen,
There is something missing from the first part of
South Gloucestershire. It says "South Gloucestershire is a local government, created in 1996 when the
county of Avon was abolished.
Could you fill in what should come after "government"?
Thanks
Adrian Pingstone 10:39, 6 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Hello Morwen, I've drawn up a map of Warwickshire here media:Warwickshiremap 700.png which shows both its modern and historic boundaries, do you like it?, If so I think it might now be safe to unprotect the warks article so I can add it G-Man 22:49, 6 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Thanks, but there are only so many hours in the day ;). I think I'll reload it in JPEG format, not really surposed to do that with drawings but my computer cant seem to cope with PNG G-Man 23:10, 6 Jan 2004 (UTC)
OK I should be able to add the borough boudaries. Not sure about how to represent overflowing Birmingham though, I surpose it says that already in the article G-Man 23:18, 6 Jan 2004 (UTC)
This better media:Warwickshiremap 700.jpg G-Man 23:39, 6 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Rough - but feeling better than I did this morning. Secretlondon 15:17, Jan 7, 2004 (UTC)
What is transient? Its up for debate but I'm thinking of fame for less than 15 minutes. We just don't want be a collection of every bit of US media hype. I know it's not precise. Secretlondon 15:53, Jan 7, 2004 (UTC)
Since you turned New Party into a disambiguation, can you please fix all the links at [4]? -- Jia ng 22:32, 7 Jan 2004 (UTC)
What do you think of the wording at the Warwickshire article especially in the traditional county section. Sorry to keep going on about counties I cant think of anything better to do at the moment (really should get a life I know). :PS did you get my last email BTW G-Man 22:59, 8 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Hi, there's a vote going on at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Peerage about how to handle naming articles on peers. Just contacting everyone who's posted over there to inform them. john 06:21, 9 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Hey, check out the complete hash that User:Zestauferov has made of Prussia. All the material on the Hohenzollern Kingdom which became a Weimar Land has been moved to the inaccurate page Brandenburg-Prussia. john 05:27, 10 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Just wondering, do you know if there are any plans for Northampton to become a unitary authority?. Its certainly large enough to be one, if so I should mention it in the article G-Man 17:02, 10 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Thanks, that's certainly rather odd seem as Northampton has a population of nearly 200,000. Another thing if I was to draw some more county maps, do you know where I could find some maps which shows district boundaries etc, cause I copied the warks one from a book.
BTW: where do you get your information from. G-Man 17:22, 10 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Hi Morwen I've added towns which to my knowledge have some green belt space between them and the London Conurbation but are part of the London economy. I don’t think political administration ( eg by London Boroughs) is sufficient to exclude places set apart by green space. eg Purley is not a part of London but is administered with the London Borough Of Croydon. The article points out what a loose concept commuter belt is. I prefer the more precise Satellite town . Lumos3 20:11, 10 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Thanks for the delete of Thunderbird! I was looking for an admin to do just that! - UtherSRG 21:05, 10 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Greetings again, Morwen. I see that you have chosen to vote against a rule requiring that titles of peers appear in the titles of biographical articles on them. Forgive me for taking the liberty of attempting to convince you to change your position.
It is my considered opinion that, in general, the addition of peerage titles does no harm, while their deduction does no good. Take, for instance, the case of Horatio Nelson. What harm is caused by writing instead Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson? But indeed I find that subtracting the title detracts from the article, for the title provides a clue to the origin of the appellation "Lord Nelson". With the appropriate redirects, the inclusion of a title should cause no problem.
It can be suggested that if the exclusion of a title does not detract, then it is acceptable to exclude. However, such an exception - which is perhaps what you have voted for - can be wildly misinterpreted by other users, who will find that not mentioning, say, "Earl of Chatham" in William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, will cause no negative effects whatsoever - failing to realise that Pitt was known as "Chatham" rather than "Pitt" for a significant portion of his career.
A further insinuation can be made to the effect that the "most common name" rule should prevail. Unfortunately such a rule cannot be easily applied in the cases of peers. For the most common name is, say in the case of the Viscount Nelson, "Lord Nelson", which is entirely ambiguous, for one does not necessarily know whether one is referring to Horatio Nelson, or his brother William Nelson (1st Earl Nelson), or the Earl Nelson's heirs. This can be extended and generalised for other peers as well.
So, my general thought is that more information (to a reasonable extent) is better than less. Note the reasonability standard - I have no hopes of seeing the crude, awkward, and unwieldy article titles mentioning every last one of the peer's titles. One hopes to have convinced you to change your vote. Feel free to respond on my talk page. -- Clarence Threepwood, 9th Earl of Emsworth
But returning to the original point, nothing would be lost by adding peerage titles to article titles. The titles, by no means, would become too clumsy. What would be lost if they were removed is consistency, and, more importantly, accuracy, for the peerage title is considered to be a part of the name of the individual in question. -- Lord Emsworth 19:11, Jan 11, 2004 (UTC)
Hi Morwen, thanks for writing Russian Provisional Government, 1917 - I planned to do it myself after fixing the numerous links, and will extend it now. Kosebamse 14:50, 12 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Hello Morwen, what exactly was that plan about North Warwickshire becoming a UA you were talking about, I havn't found any reference to it anywhere. Does it entail expanding it to include Tamworth or something?.
PS: I have a feeling youre email isn't working, just to let you know. G-Man 20:06, 14 Jan 2004 (UTC)
OH OK I surpose Warwickshire is a rather silly entity in it's present form. It might make sense I surpose to merge Nuneaton & Bedworth with Coventry UA, seem as both town's are basically just an extension of Coventry in all but name (hope no-one from Nuneaton is reading this). But that's just me speculating. G-Man 20:37, 14 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Changing the subject slightly, I sent you an email a few days ago. I dont know whether you have received it/ replied to it and I havn't received youre reply. Or you dont want to reply to it. Or you're emails broken, just I'm rather confused as to what's going on G-Man 21:12, 14 Jan 2004 (UTC)
I take it by youre silence you dont want to reply, thats OK. Although it would be more polite if you just said so rather than ignoring me. I havn't upset you or something have I?. G-Man 22:16, 14 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Oh OK thanks, I apologise for my previous comment G-Man 22:56, 14 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Can you please add a dispute notice to Anti-Zionism? (''The neutrality of this article is [[Wikipedia:NPOV dispute|disputed]].''). That version is very strongly disputed. ( 1 2) -- Zw 13:29, 15 Jan 2004 (UTC)
According to my sources, Birmigham became a city in 1896 not 1889, it says that in the Brum article, It became a county borough in 1889 which is not the same thing. G-Man 21:06, 16 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Actually some sources say Birmingham was made a city in 1889 and some say it was 1896 so I'me not entirely sure which is right.
PS: did you get my email reply. G-Man 22:29, 16 Jan 2004 (UTC)
About those maps you've been adding. Wouldent it make more sense to put those maps on the county pages and put numbers on the individual districts/boroughs, and have a numbered list of the different districts/boroughs alongside, like I did on the Warwickshire map.
Because for example the map on the Birmingham page has no context explaining what the map is about, which might confuse readers. Did you draw the maps by-the-way?. G-Man 20:57, 20 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Morwen, thanks for chipping in on the Georgian Orthodox and Apostolic Church page. Please keep an eye on it, though, as Levzur will almost certainly try to revert the most recent changes (check out the discussion - if you can call it that - on the related talk page). -- ChrisO 22:53, 20 Jan 2004 (UTC)
I don't differentiate between Bradford the Council and Bradford the place. I know the council includes outlying places such as Shipley but I'd just include them as districts. It may be of course that people from these districts are offended by the Bradford connection and change them but I'd just include. Secretlondon 18:10, Jan 21, 2004 (UTC)
Morwen, I find the maps you've been adding to the political divisions of Wales to be a useful touch, but regarding them as Just Another User, I would find it useful if you provided the map of the "current" boundaries with a useful label, say "Powys Current Boundaries" or "Powys 1996 -".
While on the topic of Powys, it appears to me that the map of the boundaries for 1974 - 1996 are identical to the map of the current boundaries. is that so? Or are my eyes deceiving me? If the boundaries haven't changed since 1996, why do we need a second map? -- llywrch 20:22, 22 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Hi, I saw you've added excellent maps to some of the current Scottish regions (at least for Stirling and Falkirk). On a related note, I'm inclined to think that Stirling and Falkirk should refer to the cities/towns of those names, and Stirling Council or Stirling (unitary authority) (sigh, why couldn't they have called it "Stirlingshire" or something sensible...). Do you know whether this has already been discussed somewhere, or if there's an appropriate wikiproject to which I should turn for guidance. Thanks! -- Finlay McWalter 22:58, 22 Jan 2004 (UTC)
My you have been busy!. Are you going to do the same thing with the West Midlands (county) page as you've done with the Greater Manchester article and put the map numbered with districts there instead of on the individual articles BTW?, I personally think thats a much better way of doing it G-Man 23:40, 22 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Can we keep Brighton about Brighton and Hove about Hove please. Whilst they have very recently become a city, they have for a very long time had separate identities and the majority of the article refers to the History of Brighton and has virtually nothing about Hove. Locals still say that they live in either Brighton or Hove and not in the city of Brighton & Hove. Also if you are refering to the city it is almost invariably rendered as "Brighton & Hove" (and may indeed be the official rendering [7]) rather than "Brighton and Hove". Mintguy (T) 23:53, 24 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Well that may well be the case the council render it with the "&" in their official logo (as above) and this is how it appears on most if not all signage and documents related to the city. Mintguy (T) 00:18, 25 Jan 2004 (UTC)
I'm curious what program you're using to generate all your maps? I was considering making a map of the sea areas (Fisher, Dogger, etc.) for the Shipping Forecast page, and the original source (in whatever vectorised format you're using) of the British Isles map would make a handy (and consistent) jumping-off point for me. Thanks! -- Finlay McWalter 19:49, 27 Jan 2004 (UTC)
I've moved the article from South Bucks to South Buckinghamshire, so if you want to go and work your magic with the maps now it might encourage someone to destub the page. Incidentally, I've had to correct spellings on at least two articles that I'm watching that you've updated recently: a misspelling of "Wycombe" and a statement that Buckinghamshire is adjacent to Herefordshire. -- Graham :) 00:38, 28 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Hi Morwen, you're doing a fantastic job producing all of these maps. :) I think these pages would really benefit from larger maps showing the principal towns and cities in each region (which would fit in very well in all the white space to the right of the town/village lists). Is this something you're thinking of doing in the future? (Er, not to heap more work on your plate or anything!). I wouldn't know how to go about that sort of graphic wizardry myself. I think my next big project after I've dealt with the anniversary pages ( January 1 etc) which are all getting reformatted a bit so they match and are NPOV (very tedious) will be to lend a hand with the UK geography and individual county/town pages. Again, love the maps, Fabiform 02:58, 28 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Sorry Morwen another comment about maps. Just thinking wouldent it be better to put the district maps on a seperate page about the districts rather than putting them on the articles about towns, like I've done with Warwick. For example the article Tamworth is about the town and not the district, therefore putting a map of the district could be somewhat confusing to uninitiated readers. Good work your doing BTW.
Oh yes, are you going to reply to my last email. G-Man 22:53, 29 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Er I dont seem to have got it, try again (must be the secret agents at work again, intercepting your emails :)) G-Man 23:43, 29 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Hi Morwen, I just stumbled upon your Template:GFDL message. There is a list where such messages are listed at: Wikipedia:MediaWiki custom messages. I don't know if you forgot to link it there, or if you didn't know about it, so I just figured I'd drop you a note. Dori | Talk 06:19, Jan 30, 2004 (UTC)
Hi. Well done on the maps, well overdue for someone to do this. But I think you may have had a problem with a few. The one for Lewes for example. Mintguy (T) 15:23, 31 Jan 2004 (UTC)
A lot of the maps which you've recently dowloaded dont seem to open. For instance Daventry, the image name just sit there with a red cross next to them. I dont know whether this is just a problem on my computer or something. G-Man 13:57, 1 Feb 2004 (UTC)
Congratulations on banishing red links from MPs elected in the UK general election, 2001. That's a lot of politicians, and a job well done. -- rbrwr ˆ
Good work on all those maps! But it appears that your Indonesian map is missing the border between Gorontalo and Sulawesi Utara (see [9]). -- Wik 20:16, Feb 3, 2004 (UTC)
Are you aware that the various maps you created for the districts of Buckinghamshire no longer work? Is it a link issue or do they not exist any more? -- Graham :) 21:18, 3 Feb 2004 (UTC)