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Thanks, DotComCairney 12:14, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

Worcestershierre, Warwickshierre, and Everyshierre

Hello DotComCairney! A non-British user seems to be attempting to suggest that the Brits are not pronouncing their own British place names correctly, and appears to believe that it is a policy of Wikipedia to instruct the Brits, through the use of the IPA, how British English should be pronounced. He/she also seems to be of the opinion that it is Wikipedia policy to regard British English by default as a rhotic language, which it is not. Some British Wikipedians are trying to avoid an edit conflict and have requested my support. I have added my comments to the debate the non-British user has has started in defence of his/her multiple, WP:BOLD? changes to IPA pronunciations of British place names. As a professional linguist I accord every version of English its own particular merits and my position here strictly concerns the way in which the IPA is interpreted and applied in the Wikipedia, and how the current policy may need to be changed through a truly representative consensus. If you would like to help resolve this issue, please see User talk:Kudpung#IPA, RP, etc. and User talk:Lfh#Warwickshire to get the background. Maybe you could then chime in with your views on the subject at Wikipedia talk:IPA for English#Rhoticity in place names. Thanks. --Kudpung (talk) 19:00, 12 January 2010 (UTC)

Newswipe

Hi! I see you proposed moving Newswipe with Charlie Brooker to Charlie Brooker's Newswipe at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion. I've started a discussion on the article's talk page; please feel free to comment there; after about 7 days, an admin will close the discussion and move it if there is consensus to do so. Regards, Jafeluv (talk) 23:21, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

WP Northamptonshire

Hi DocComCairney just to let you know some Northamptonshire articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release (which I never herd of until today). It can be seen here. It just advises to make some Northants articles better and I'm currently working on Northamptonshire/Kettering which is coming along nicely, but help would be appreciated, best Likelife (talk) 16:11, 4 October 2010 (UTC)

Schools

Hi DotMacCairney. Please bear with me if you are already aware of this. In early September changes were made to an infobox template that affected the display of hundreds of school crests/logos in the UK schools infobox. This is now being taken care of and you may find the discussions on this page interesting: Template talk:Infobox UK school, do however leave a message here or here if you come across any that are still not displaying correctly.
If you are still actively interested in schools and and are not already a member, and would like to help out on school pages and school templates, you may wish to consider joining the WP:WPSCHOOLS project where you can also stay abreast of developments by adding its talk page to your watchlist. Happy editing!--Kudpung (talk) 03:38, 22 November 2010 (UTC)

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Can I use Your Call Of duty Wiki Army Picture for my new Call of duty WikiProject and you can join. --Pacman451 (talk) 20:42, 17 June 2012 (UTC)

Guardian reader template

Hi DotComCairney, you should reconsider the use of the non-free Guardian logo in the userbox you created. You could achieve a similar effect with coloured text without the copyright issue. Regards, ProhibitOnions ^(T) 07:10, 5 August 2012 (UTC)