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I noticed you just put a comment at United Kingdom without signing, which you can easily do with these 4 squiggles ~~~~. Cheers, SqueakBox 22:10, July 11, 2005 (UTC)

Hello, welcome to Wikipedia! I noticed you just put a comment at Texas Revolution without signing, which you can easily do with these 4 squiggles ~~~~. I'll try to improve the section you mention. You may also feel free to improve the article yourself. Again, welcome. Johntex 21:35, 6 September 2005 (UTC)

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[edit] Public schools (UK)

Request for comment re Talk:Public school (UK). There is strong resistance to acknowledging Scottish linguistic differences.--Mais oui! 08:52, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] UK COTW: Education in the United Kingdom

Just to let you know, an article you've voted for, has became this fortnight's UKCOTW - Education in the United Kingdom. Come and help out! Thanks, Francs2000 19:31, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

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[edit] Re:Kingdom of Scotland

Thanks for the praise. The Kingdom of Scotland article isn't a bad article. The omission is a little annoying because of my personal historical bias, but it just needs a little balance - and perhaps more of an indication that the map and the table pertains only to the Kingdom in its final centuries. There is already an article Kingdom of Alba. This article is just a daughter of the Scotland in the High Middle Ages article, and needs to be redone to be a proper article. Both the Scotland and Alba articles are actually about exactly the same topic, but differ in period focus. This may have to be fixed eventually, but at present at least fills the gap. We can sort all this out later. I'm going to remove the tag from that article for the present (and the map). - Calgacus (ΚΑΛΓΑΚΟΣ) 03:07, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

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This image still has no source. Did you take the photo yourself? -SCEhardT 22:50, 13 March 2006 (UTC)


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[edit] Dundee University

Hi, I noticed you've previously edited the article on Dundee university. Some of the wording is currently under debate and we were wondering if you could offer us your input on the matter 62.30.169.85 18:07, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] helpfull hint

Instead of making articles such as Fourth year and Third year it may make more sense to explain in one place how the Scottish school year numbering differs from the rest of the United Kingdom. Jon513 21:30, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Child categories

No need to add people to the category, People of Scottish decent, if they are already in a child category such as Scottish Canadians. --Yamla 18:11, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] regarding your edits to Dundee

Please be careful when editing, your recent edits to this article while appreciated where quite problematic in a number of areas. for instance:-

  • your edits to the universities section removed a number of references and footnotes. Note that per wikipedia:verifiability all information should be properly sourced. Please do not remove relevant references, they enable readers to double check facts and aid in research.
  • A lot of your contributions duplicated material that was already in the article. For instance in the schools section you added a section that on the high school of Dundee even though there was already a paragraph on it earlier on in that section. in the media section you also duplicated mention of the city's radio stations even though they were already covered in the music section.
  • sub articles - a lot of the material you added more properly belonged in sub-articles, for instance the history section under politics and government should have been covered in the main Politics of Dundee article first. the section that the main Dundee article should remain a summary of the former per Wikipedia:Summery style the same also applies to many of the areas of Dundee which I have helpfully moved to the appropriate articles
  • Referencing - as the Dundee article is currently a featured article candidate it is important that information in it is well referenced. for example your sentence "As of February 2006, Median weekly earnings are £409, an increase of £33% since 1998, making them on a par with the Scottish median." should if possible be accompanied by a footnote (which you can read about at WP:FN) detailing where this figure comes from.

otherwise please don't let this put you off contributing.  YDAM TALK 21:40, 8 November 2006 (UTC)


Thanks for those improvements. That reference you provided in the economy section had tons of usefull information. Keep up the good work.  YDAM TALK 10:15, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Haddingtonshire

There is a redirect in place for Haddingtonshire to East Lothian. At the time we are speaking of in Haddington it was Haddingtonshire, not East Lothian, so technically you are incorrect in changing that. It equates to saying Kant lived in Kaliningrad, when in fact he lived in Konigsberg. David Lauder 22:15, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] "districts" in Scotland

Looking at your map at Atholl – What is the date? What are the other boundaries shown? Is there a version of the map that answers these questions? Thanks. —Tamfang 22:49, 1 November 2007 (UTC)