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Merry Christmas!

I wish that you may have a very Happy Holiday! Whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Hogmanay, Festivus or your hemisphere's Solstice, this is a special time of year for almost everyone! May the New Year provide you joy and fulfillment! Thanks for everything you do here. --A.S. Brown (talk) 08:55, 24 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Happy New Year

DuncanHill,
Thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia, and a Happy New Year to you and yours! ~~~~

Thank you so much! Wishing you a most happy 2022! And thank for all your hard work and contributions around here. Best wishes! --A.S. Brown (talk) 07:58, 31 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Clarification for mistake

My reversion on the Cabinet of the United Kingdom was intended to remove Larry, the Chief Mouser from the membership list as I could not find a source for it.

I unintentionally reverted an earlier edit to Suella Braverman's DOB instead. Apologies for the inconvenience. SuperWIKI (talk) 14:52, 19 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The weekly mail authentication

Sir, the weekly mail is not hijacked in any way. It has been restarted afresh. Therefore the contribution to the Wikipedia page should not be undo. 2409:4052:4E93:2704:0:0:96CB:E408 (talk) 19:21, 27 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

No, the article is about the Welsh newspaper. If you want to start a new article about your website, which is totally unconnected with the newspaper, you should go to Wikipedia:Articles for creation. You will need to demonstrate notability, and you MUST declare any connexion you have with the subject, according to our Conflicts of Interest rules. I shall copy this message to the article talk page to be sure you see it. DuncanHill (talk) 19:25, 27 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The Weekly Mail

sir, the weekly mail newspaper in Welsh has closed. It has been reintroduced in India. Which is related to walesh newspaper the weekly mail only. It has been started smoothly again with the plan to expand it. 2409:4052:4E93:2704:0:0:96CB:E408 (talk) 19:32, 27 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

See my reply above and on the article talk page. DuncanHill (talk) 19:42, 27 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

David Lloyd George

  • The below is in reply to this

Apologies for missing your comment of the talk page! I have adjusted the intro based on your valuable feedback. I'm also still learning about some of the discussion and editing procedures. Thank you. TG11TG15 (talk) 21:10, 5 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@TG11TG15: It's easier if you reply to comments on your talk page there. I think you need to slow down. There is no deadline. I also think you would benefit from reading WP:WEIGHT. Lloyd George was, indeed still is, a global figure, and our article needs to reflect this. There may well be a place for a section on the lines of "Lloyd George and Wales", and Grigg's pamphlet of the same name would be of use for that. One would have of course to mention Grigg's point that for Lloyd George "his interest in specifically Welsh issues... was genuine up to a point, but never exclusive... he would never have been content with Welsh national leadership and nothing more", and that "his Welsh patriotism, though fervent, was part of his larger British and imperial patriotism". We would do well, in the main article, to mention more of the actual practical things he did for Wales, such as the grants for the National Library of Wales, the Welsh colleges, and the Museum (he gave them much more than they asked for). Quotations about him from lots of talking heads don't add anything like as much as actual concrete actions by the man himself. But this is really a discussion for the article talk page. DuncanHill (talk) 21:30, 5 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much for your suggestions. TG11TG15 (talk) 16:22, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Your recent revert at Robert Carrier (chef)

Hi DuncanHill, since we're now WP acquaintances, I thought I should give you the courtesy of a notice on your talk page, as you did me. Not following you around, but I happen to have Robert Carrier (chef) on my watchlist, and I saw that here you reverted edits which I believe are correct. The text says, "Carrier was the subject of the *United Kingdom* television show This Is Your Life, but you've re-linked to the US version of This Is Your Life. Regards, Carlstak (talk) 21:26, 15 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Carlstak: Thanks for spotting that - the IP is a block evader who violates WP:NOTBROKEN on an industrial scale, I was reverting his edits en masse and missed his one good one! DuncanHill (talk) 17:04, 16 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I thought as much. I do mass reverts of IP socks as well. Carlstak (talk) 17:49, 16 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Precious
Three years!

Precious anniversary

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:04, 22 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

"Oath of Allegiance (UK))" listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect Oath of Allegiance (UK)) and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 June 1#Oath of Allegiance (UK)) until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. 192.76.8.78 (talk) 15:17, 1 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Look after yourself!

Mark LessHeard vanU (talk) 13:19, 8 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Your ref desk post

Apologies for removing your post at [1]. Unfortunately, the OP is a banned user, so I had to nuke your good faith reply along with his original post. Best wishes, --Viennese Waltz 12:16, 30 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I enjoyed both the question and finding the answer. DuncanHill (talk) 12:55, 30 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I enjoyed the exchange too, but rules is rules. --Viennese Waltz 14:18, 30 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Resource Exchange request fulfilled

https://imgur.com/a/CV1hPCq
Citation:
Message: Belgian Review. no. 5. March 1942 pp 31-32.

User:Jonwilliamsl(talk|contribs) 15:32, 25 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Jonwilliamsl: Many thanks. DuncanHill (talk) 16:42, 25 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Lord Privy Seal

A few weeks ago a user whose been editing only since April changed the Ernest Bevin quote hyperlinks from Outhouse to Privy Council of the United Kingdom and Pinniped to Privy seal. When I said that removed its point the response was "The preexisting hyperlinks linked to pages that didn't make contextual sense.". Since then I've attempted indicate the quote's meaning, including with videos of the Frost Report sketch and Richard Dawkins explaining the phrase in an interview, but the user continues to believe "Bevin was most certainly not saying that he wasn’t a toilet or a pinniped.". Perhaps you could join the discussion at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Lord_Privy_Seal#Ernest_Bevin_anecdote_hyperlinks in an attempt to change his/her mind. Mcljlm (talk) 01:43, 2 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Christopher J. Lane

Hi, can you assist or advise on how to deal with a Wikipedia article that seems like a self-promotional autobiography? I saw you in the edit history for Christopher J. Lane article, and the more I look at it, the more I see that it was crafted by the person himself and not in good intent. It seems to read just like his bio at his own website (which also links the Wikipedia page as part of his external links, which would be suspect of an inappropriate use of Wikipedia for promotional usage). 2603:8000:B600:4000:34C2:BE1C:BAD6:91C0 (talk) 22:41, 7 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The Younger Pitt, Vol. 1: The years of acclaim etc

If you are in the mood for cleaning up citations, I suggest losing the Google Books URL as they aren't the only booksellers in town. IMO, we should only use them when they provide a page preview. I would replace it with an OLCC number(which links to Worldcat). John Maynard Friedman (talk) 15:37, 17 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I started to do so but none of the editions listed had the given publisher. I doubt that it matters but thought it best leave it to someone more familiar with the topic. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 15:42, 17 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I'm not a fan of google books either - even when they do give a preview it's not always visible in all countries. I was just fixing a couple of harv/sfn errors (a pet peeve) on Pitt the Younger. DuncanHill (talk) 15:50, 17 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Pet peeve of mine too! --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 16:21, 17 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Another barnstar for you!

The Guidance Barnstar
Dear colleague,
Thank you for finding the time to offer advice and guidance to your fellow editors, especially about the existence of useful tools, as you did for my benefit, here.
With kind regards;
Patrick. ツ Pdebee.(talk)(become old-fashioned!) 16:00, 21 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Operation Tabarin - citation help

Dear DuncanHill, thanks very much for your help with the editing errors you corrected in this article. I will take more care checking the sfn syntax in future. I'm afraid I didn't really understand how to use those tools /guides you suggested. If you have time to explain a little more, I'd be keen to try it. Thanks also for correcting the section headings - someone else had changed my - to the curly brackets, and not being very experienced at editing I assumed they knew more than me. Kind regards Buckland1072 (talk) 14:26, 28 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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