User talk:DonaldsonAC

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Counties

Please read WP:UKCOUNTIES before you change any more county information. If you disagree with the policy, then you need to persuade, on the policy talk page, other editors that the policy should be changed. Breaking the policy on individual articles is just wasting your time and ours, because such edits will be reverted to comply with policy. -- Dr Greg talk 23:39, 3 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Including traditional/historic counties as a point of reference.

Your comment in on my talk page is pure Association of British Counties propaganda lifted almost word for word. Wikipedia editors have a long history of dealing with ABC vandalism and have a very well thought out policy, which you are continual in breach of. User talk:Dr Greg pointed this out to you in the preceding comment, now desist with you edits..--Kitchen Knife (talk) 21:54, 11 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Lancashire

They use two different info boxes (one is info box settlement, the other info box UK Place or something similar. They don't all have the same variables, although many things are interchangeable. As for Lancashire, I identify as some from Lancashire because it is the tradition of my home town. But that's very different to introducing it to wikipedia. Koncorde (talk) 22:42, 14 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Historic/Traditional Counties

Most if not all of my edits relating to the traditional county names are not 'Historic counties revivalist rubbish' as on person reverting an edit put it, but are in fact stating the real counties in which we live.

You all might do well to read the 'Why the Confusion' and 'Official Statements' pages on our website https://britishcounties.org and understand the names reverted back to are administrative or ceremonial areas only and are not the traditional geographic counties. Nobody is not interested in who empties the bins, but they are interested to know the real county name.

My edits are certainly not vandalism, I have had this reaction from several Wikipedia people who had the same bad/ill-informed attitude towards the traditional counties. I am at a loss why the policy is to use the artificial areas created over the past 40+ years which are constantly changing, rather than our traditional counties which have existed for around 1000 years and whose boundaries are static!

Andrew Donaldson, British Counties Campaign

https://britishcounties.org https://www.facebook.com/BritishCounties/ DonaldsonAC (talk) 02:10, 1 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]