User talk:Andy G

Hello there Andy, I was just wondering where you managed to find the 2001 population statistics for individual town's. I have looked at the 2001 survey website but have only been able to find the population of borough's, which isn't really much help G-Man 19:33 15 Jul 2003 (UTC)

I guess you mean the comments on Talk:Manchester -

Today's scores (from the 4 Wikipedia articles)

• Manchester 391,000
• Birmingham 1,013,431
• Birmingham conurbation "around 2.2 million"
• Manchester conurbation 2,438,000
• Greater Manchester "about 2.5 million"
• West Midlands 2,552,000

Andy G 23:29 13 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Census of 29 April 2001:

• Manchester 392,819; Greater Manchester 2,482,352
• Birmingham 977,091; West Midlands (county) 2,555,596.

- but I was just collecting together the figures off the 4 Wikipedia pages. The stats at the bottom come from Graculus

Andy G 18:55, 7 Aug 2003 (UTC)

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Any chance you could explain the features of the various English dialects/accents on the British English page. Also I don't think scouse is mentioned yet. Rmhermen 20:54, 4 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Scouse = Liverpool: I've added it. I'm no language expert but the seven families of accents I cited are often distinguished by English (UK) stand-up-commedians for example, so I think it's safe to point them out. I've added to Distinguishing accents in English and there's a little description there. Andy G 20:40, 7 Aug 2003 (UTC)

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Andy, in response to your question, "Is this right? Domnonia & Cornouaille sound very like Dumnonia and Cornwall - part of the Brythonic culture but not part of Brittany." -- tres bizarre, but true! My source is Myles Dillon & Nora Chadwick, The Celtic Realms, but I've seen these names of the Breton kingdoms in other places. If I understand the scholarship correctly, this has spawned disagreements over the origins of these names: were they Medieval English (i.e., the Sassons from beyond the Tamar & Severn) coinages, or derived from earlier, prehistoric Celtic names, or perchance the Breton kingdoms borrowed the names currently in use from beyond the Channel? The only certainty in this dispute is that there are far more opinions than evidence. -- llywrch 04:43, 9 Aug 2003 (UTC)

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Andy, that was a cool link you provided for A Clockwork Orange. I could never get it from a search. Jay 05:36, Sep 24, 2003 (UTC)

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Hi, I responded to your comment on Talk:List of words of disputed pronunciation, and I was hoping you could point out the other words on the page where the vowels don't seem right to you, like you did for apricot and controversy. I really want to make the page as dialect-neutral as possible. Thanks, Nohat 15:10, 25 Sep 2003 (UTC)

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Thanks for the correction on the Morris Marina pic, I have now removed it. The organisers sheet of details for the rally said it was a Marina!
Adrian Pingstone 09:00, 16 Oct 2003 (UTC)

(The pic's now in its rightful place at Austin Allegro)

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Because it's made up in labs! Or did you not see the episode? ;) Morwen 20:42, 4 Dec 2003 (UTC)

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Re Template:West_Midlands. Now try and figure out what should be at Template:Yorkshire or MediaWiki:North_East_England ;) Morwen 19:07, Feb 26, 2004 (UTC)

OK, point taken, the region bundaries don't fit the current ceremonial counties. But come to that, why bring in counties at all? The page for the Region can say what 1974 counties were involved. It just seems confucing to mix current districts with expired conties. If anything surely we should list the current adiministrative counties (labelled as such) in the panel. Maybe just the non-unitary ones. Andy G 19:26, 26 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Sounds resaonable to me. Morwen 19:27, Feb 26, 2004 (UTC)

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Re: Berkshire. The confusion here is one introduced by the propagandists of the ABC. They equate 'county councils' and 'administrative counties' and pretend that the latter cannot exist without the other. Berkshire is not in ISO 3166:GB because ISO 3166:GB makes no pretense at representing counties. It represents top-level local authority areas, and Berkshire is certainly not one of these, nor are Greater Manchester or Tyne and Wear, as their county councils have been abolished. This is not the same however as abolishing the county. The article Administrative counties of England I have clarified - the map was already correct. You will note that the link you found on the talk page when you originally questioned whether say, Milton Keynes was in law a county, refers to the 'County of Berkshire' in the present tense. Morwen 20:20, Mar 3, 2004 (UTC)

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En-dashes

Please don't use en-dashes on Wikipedia as you did at Mini. The very minor difference in readability is not worth the greater editing difficulty and lack of uniform support. Just use hyphens.

The case is different for em-dashes, where at least there IS a great readability and appearance improvement if one uses proper em-dashes. But even em-dashes are not yet universally approved of. —Morven 21:57, Sep 2, 2004 (UTC)

Hmm. I just put in a one-line edit about the Mini Moke. The fancy dashes must have got in automatically from something I did during the edit. Personally I'm happy to use hyphens. Andy G 16:39, 1 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Article Licensing

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 2000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

• Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
• Multi-Licensing Guide
• Free the Rambot Articles Project

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

Option 1

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

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OR

Option 2

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:

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Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=User_talk:Ram-Man&action=edit&section=new)| talk)

Birmingham photo

Hello Andy, I just thought I'd let you know that I've uploaded an enhanced version of your photo of Birmingham's skyline Here. I have enlarged it slightly and enhanced the colours,contrast,brightness and sharpness etc. I think it's an improvement, I put a link in to your original version, I hope you dont mind and like it. G-Man 20:36, 2 Jan 2005 (UTC)

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Sorry to butt in but i noticed a conversation you had on the British isles discussion page where you referred to the Book "The Isles" by Norman Davis. Can i recommend to you two books on Cornish history. Mark Stoyle "West Britons, Cornish identities in th early modern period" Philip Payton "Cornwall a History" Both excellent and place the Cornish in their rightful context as a distinct peoples of the Atlantic Archipelago. Fulub le Breton 6/02/05