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Happy editing! --Vsmith (talk) 00:28, 15 February 2022 (UTC)

I've added the ref for the Isle of Mull Cycling Club that you had attempted. Don't give up, you can figure it out ... don't let the jargon keep you down. :) --Vsmith (talk) 00:28, 15 February 2022 (UTC)

"Weird formatting": not

@Clydiee the "| " at the end of the category which you removed as "weird formatting" was not weird. Any category added to an article can specify a particular sort key (eg Icelandic names sort one way in Icelandic categories and another in general cats), by adding ther "|" and then the sort key. Giving a sort key of " ", a space, forces it to sort first. And it makes sense for the article "Isle of Mull" to sort at the top of the category "Isle of Mull". I hope that makes sense. I undid your edit. In general, if you don't understand what a bit of code is doing, it's often best to ask someone rather than just remove it. PamD 19:01, 23 February 2024 (UTC)

my apologies, thank you for correcting me!! Clydiee (talk) 21:11, 23 February 2024 (UTC)

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damn it damn it damn it all Clydiee (talk) 12:21, 17 March 2026 (UTC)

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		Thank you for adding the Mull locator map to all them articles. Much appreciated! IJA (talk) 09:29, 18 March 2026 (UTC)

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Stirling

The MOS doesn't say the pronunciation should be hidden and the foreign equivalent should be in parentheses, which it is. Murgatroyd49 (talk) 15:37, 17 May 2026 (UTC)

i understand your interpretation but it does say

"When the subject is closely associated with more than one non-English language, the lead sentence should normally not single out one of them. In such cases, all non-English equivalents should be placed together in a single explanatory footnote"

i do think that stirling is a hard to argue example of multiple non-english languages being relevant Clydiee (talk) 15:50, 17 May 2026 (UTC)

Doesn't address the problem of the pronunciation being hidden. Murgatroyd49 (talk) 16:28, 17 May 2026 (UTC)

the pronunciation is not being "hidden", it is being put in a footnote, something that MOS:LEADPRON suggests:

"using either parentheses or a footnote"

MOS:LEADPRON and MOS:FOREIGNEQUIV both suggest putting the respective extra naming context they deal with in a footnote if it would otherwise be too messy of a first line, i don't see why only we would put only the non-english names in a footnote when this applies to both of them. basically every page with a native english pronunciation takes this approach too, including ones that would not even be that messy even without a footnote: including: London, New Delhi, Chicago, Dublin, Sydney, Auckland, Singapore, and so on...

MOS:LEADPRON also suggests that if a pronunciation is intuitive then it doesn't need to be added at all, although i am scottish so it's easy for me to assume it's easy, and i am in favour of the pronunciation being at the start either way, i just think it should be in a footnote Clydiee (talk) 19:38, 17 May 2026 (UTC)

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Lifeboat station maps

Hi @Clydiee

Just wanted to say, thanks for the more detailed map additions. Something I was struggling to find.

I don't want to go changing what you've done, so can I say, I much prefer when you include both maps. Lifeboats cover a big area, so its nice to have some context of that area. Is that OK?

Martin Ojsyork (talk) 15:49, 19 June 2026 (UTC)

hello @Ojsyork,

i appreciate you pointing this out! i do remember the first one i edited (i think Leverburgh) this thought did pop into my head but clearly it must have left it as quick as it came. i haven't got many islands left at this point but if you don't do it yourself i'll go back and add the wider maps to the lifeboat stations Clydiee (talk) 16:23, 19 June 2026 (UTC)

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