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The Good Life

Please do not undo accurate edits and post inaccurate comments. The Other One began it's run on 11th December 1977 and a BBC source was provided in the edit to verify and confirm that fact. The Good Life finished it's run on 22 May 1977, thus your statement that The Other One began a year before TGL finished is wholly inaccurate. It is noted that the original run of TOO ran concurrently with the first of the two 'specials' commissioned after TGL series ended. Since the character of "Sir's" wife Felicity (who only appeared in two episodes in series 1) is included in the article and you appear to have no objection to that inclusion, it is thus perfectly acceptable for the only other one of the three recurring characters who also appeared in two episodes and is referred to in many others - many more than Felicity - Mrs Weaver, it is again perfectly acceptable for this character to be included in the article. Please do not undo these edits again. 212.2.180.165 (talk) 17:03, 5 December 2020 (UTC)

Frankie Boyle

Why would you remove facts from Frankie Boyles Wikipedia page? Mattuk56 (talk) 03:00, 10 January 2021 (UTC)

Because you did not provide a reliable source to prove what you added was true. -- Dr Greg  talk  03:03, 10 January 2021 (UTC)

County → District maps

To my view, changing the map of a UK location from county to district is not an improvement. The new map means nothing to anyone unfamiliar with the shape of Eden District (i.e. virtually all users). From the Cumbria map, as a Brit I can establish more or less where the site is; the Eden map, lacking any coastline or familiar geography, tells me nothing. Surely more people are familiar with the shape of Cumbria, and for those that aren't that map (unlike the Eden map) also features an establishing inset that shows Cumbria's location within England. Anybody wanting the pinpoint location can click on the coords. Was there a discussion on this type of change anywhere? I'm more active on sites in Derbyshire and similar changes have been made on some sites there (which I find similarly unhelpful). Dave.Dunford (talk) 17:23, 3 February 2021 (UTC)

@Dave.Dunford:, I can see your point and I'm not aware of any discussions about this. Maybe this should be discussed at some appropriate central talk page.

I boldly introduced district maps in Lancashire articles several years ago and nobody ever complained, so recently I just went ahead to do the same in Cumbria.

I understand your concern, and for any article with more than one map and that doesn't use {{Infobox UK place}} it's easy enough to change the priority of which map should be shown first by default. I wouldn't object to anyone changing the order and I'd be willing to do it myself if there's consensus to do so.

There is a technical issue with articles that use {{Infobox UK place}} which automatically adds the county map to the bottom of the list that is supplied via parameters. To get the county map at the top of the list would require a rewrite of the template code. -- Dr Greg  talk  19:09, 3 February 2021 (UTC)

Claughton railway station

I really did mean to move the categories, don't know how I managed to do that! Thanks for sorting it out. Regards. The joy of all things (talk) 17:06, 14 February 2021 (UTC)

Not to worry, I assumed it was an accident and not intentional! -- Dr Greg  talk  17:07, 14 February 2021 (UTC)

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		For which you receive this, with thanks, for WP:AGF: many others wouldn't. The joy of all things (talk) 17:16, 14 February 2021 (UTC)

List_of_counties_of_the_United_Kingdom - highlights

I want to find out what the green and yellow highlights in this table mean, but don't know the best way to go about this, who to ask, where to ask etc. Any tips? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_counties_of_the_United_Kingdom — Preceding unsigned comment added by Williamsardar (talk • contribs) 10:43, 25 February 2021 (UTC)

I've added a colour key to List of counties of the United Kingdom. Hope that helps. -- Dr Greg  talk  11:05, 25 February 2021 (UTC)

Confusion: London-Grater London

My editing was in good faith! Thanks for the explanation, I find it extremely useful and I apologize for any inconvenience caused! Darrad2009 (talk) 16:43, 29 March 2021 (UTC)

No problem! -- Dr Greg  talk  23:44, 29 March 2021 (UTC)

Greater London flag?

Hi! I would kindly ask you to clarify the existence of the Greater London flag. On the list of English flags [[1]] says about that very flag: "The flag used officially between 1965 and 1984. Prior to 1965 it had been the flag of the County of London from 1889. Since 1984 the flag has had no official status". So why there is a flag in the article about Greater London. Thanks and all the best! Darrad2009 (talk) 13:18, 7 April 2021 (UTC)

I don't know. Ask at Talk:Greater London. -- Dr Greg  talk  13:36, 7 April 2021 (UTC)

Following my previous editing, I am having a problem distinguishing the two: on the page [[2]] if I click London on the list of the regions, it transfers me to the Greater London. The very first sentence of the Greater London article says: "Greater London is a ceremonial county of England that makes up the majority of the London region", whereas in the infobox is stated that Greater London is a ceremonial county and the region. All of this is quite confusing, and I would appreciate it if you be so kind to clarify what's correct; is the Greater London region and ceremonial county or just county? Thanks! Darrad2009 (talk) 10:36, 11 April 2021 (UTC)

Yes, it's confusing. First of all Wikipedia's Greater London article is about both the region and the ceremonial county, whereas Wikipedia's London article isn't specifically about either, it's about the urban city in general. Now to answer your question, the county is officially called "Greater London" and excludes the City of London square mile which is a separate county. The official region's official name is just "London", and includes both the Greater London county and the City of London county. It's all a bit confusing and unfortunately the names of the Wikipedia articles don't align neatly with the different administrative structures. -- Dr Greg  talk  11:11, 11 April 2021 (UTC)

Thank you very much! I appreciate your effort, and find it very useful! Have a great day! Darrad2009 (talk) 12:17, 11 April 2021 (UTC)

Jim Henson Television page

I'll look back at it another time, but to me it still looks under sourced, unattractive, messy, and bland. Requesting a page for deletion is very complicated on my own terms. Luigitehplumber (talk) 00:24, 17 April 2021 (UTC)

ITV regions map for UTV and ITV Channel TV

Hi there. I notice the infoboxes on UTV (TV channel) and ITV Channel Television are missing an ITV region locator map. Is this something you could help with? I notice you've provided maps for every other ITV regions' article. Thanks in advance. GMc^(talk?) 00:51, 20 April 2021 (UTC)

The UTV map already exists at File:UTV 2015 locator map.svg. I added it to the UTV article but it looks like someone else has removed it. Feel free to try again.

I never bothered with a Channel TV map because the Channel Islands are too small to be visible on a small map. I might have another go using a circle to highlight their location. -- Dr Greg  talk  15:11, 20 April 2021 (UTC)

I have now created File:ITV Channel TV 2015 locator map.svg. -- Dr Greg  talk  17:21, 20 April 2021 (UTC)

Thanks very much for that, Dr Greg. Both maps now added to their respective region's articles. GMc^(talk?) 18:57, 20 April 2021 (UTC)

Template : North Union Railway 1834-1889

You are very well versed in the line area in question and as such, I thought it best to raise my query with you. On the right-hand side of the template, there seems to be a break above where Chorley is and I ask if you can be so kind as to correct matters.

Xenophon Philosopher (talk) 12:40, 25 April 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for bringing that to my attention. The two Euxton stations seem to have been confused with each other (not just in the diagram but also in linked articles) but I think I have now cleaned up the mess. -- Dr Greg  talk  16:48, 25 April 2021 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
	Thank you for showing me the error of my ways and helping me make Wikipedia better for all! Xedrix (talk) 17:15, 30 April 2021 (UTC)

Howtown edits

Good morning - I am new to Wikipedia and I think you may have deleted a few edits I made on the 'Howtown' page and I was looking to know why? KR — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gulliver888 (talk • contribs) 07:47, 29 June 2021 (UTC)

Not Howtown, that was User:GhostInTheMachine. See https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Howtown&action=history

I did revert your edit to Lake District which was worded to imply that Ullswater is a town, which it isn't, it's a lake. -- Dr Greg  talk  09:43, 29 June 2021 (UTC)

Linking to Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency in the TV shows

Hello Elder Wikipedia Entity Greg. I see you reverted my edits to the Dirk Gently (TV series) and Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (TV series), adding links to the novel of the same name "because the novel is not a TV series." I'm pretty sure the About and For functions are widely used to link to pages with similar names, even when the similar-sounding page is not about a subject of the same media (or indeed, the same class). For example, the Wikipedia page for Beetlejuice has an About for the star, and vice versa. Unless you think there's some other reason why the novel shouldn't be linked in the About, I'm going to add it back in. Let me know - I expect you know better than I do.

Anyway, nice to make your digital acquaintance. Cheers! Joe (talk) 21:58, 13 November 2021 (UTC)

The point is that the article is called "Dirk Gently (TV series)", not "Dirk Gently", so anyone choosing to visit that page already knew that it's a about a TV series and not about a novel. Hatnotes are there to help readers who are looking for something but find the page is not the one they were looking for. So its OK for the "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency" article to have hatnotes for the TV series because it's plausible, from the article title alone, that it might be about a TV series. See WP:NOTAMB for more information.  Dr Greg  talk  22:58, 13 November 2021 (UTC)

Ok, I can understand that. Cheers again. Joe (talk) 00:02, 14 November 2021 (UTC)

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K (disambiguation)

OK, I had to edit the article beforehand. I solved the problem (diff; added: Eryk Kij (talk) 16:11, 26 November 2021 (UTC)) and please join the discussion at User talk:BilCat/archive23#US. --Eryk Kij (talk) 01:28, 25 November 2021 (UTC)

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A goat for you!

Why did you leave Metric tensor capitalized, yet remove my capital General relativity edit Dr Greg? You support the Monarchies? :) What about an Imperial Tensor? Thank you and Merry Christmas Doctor!

AnyaArisohn (talk) 22:15, 9 December 2021 (UTC)

NFTS / NFS / NFT

Many thanks for sorting out the muddle. Makes sense now! 212.236.40.78 (talk) 19:16, 8 January 2022 (UTC)

Thanks!

Hi Doctor... thanks for this edit summary. On many occasions I have been looking for this guideline. I have now saved a handy standard edit summary for it. Never mind the little typo - Cheers! - DVdm (talk) 21:29, 15 January 2022 (UTC)

Timeline of ABC Weekend TV

Thank you for creating this timeline - it's an excellent addition to my ITV company timeline series.

It would be great if it was ever possible to once again separate the westward and TSW timelines but thank you for adding the redirect for those wanting to see a timeline for Westward. Rillington (talk) 14:53, 27 March 2022 (UTC)

Template : Blackpool & Fleetwood Branch Lines

On Template : Blackpool & Fleetwood Branch Lines there are two long-closed stations that are omitted from the route map. Cross Slack was situated between St Annes on the Sea and Gillett's Crossing Halt. Stony Hill was situated between Gillett's Crossing Halt and Squires Gate.

If you feel that these two closed stations can be added to the route map, can you please do so.

Xenophon Philosopher (talk) 17:02, 21 April 2022 (UTC)

I just looked up both of these. Cross Slack is the original name for St Annes-on-the-Sea which had moved location a year before being renamed. Stony Hill was near where Squires Gate opened many years after its closure. I'm not sure if it's worth showing two different locations on the route map when both locations were never in use at the same time. If the map were geographically accurate, yes. But when it just shows the order of stations, a relocation doesn't affect the order. For example, the current map doesn't show two different locations for Fleetwood, or Thornton-Cleveleys (although is does show Ramper Road, which I would be tempted to delete as an "earlier version"). On the other hand, showing the two locations for Poulton-le-Fylde does make sense because they are on different line segments. It might be worth seeking advice from other users whether including multiple locations for what is essentially the same station is worthwhile or not. -- Dr Greg  talk  17:38, 21 April 2022 (UTC)

Thank you for looking into the matter in the depth that you have done, for which I am most grateful.

Xenophon Philosopher (talk) 08:09, 22 April 2022 (UTC)

Can you tell me why they had new neighbours in the Bless This House series? Not the film.

I can't find out why they had new neighbours in the series of Bless This House, I keep getting the film results 2A00:23C7:7C09:A001:D488:5450:B555:70B6 (talk) 11:33, 25 May 2022 (UTC)

Sorry, I've no idea. -- Dr Greg  talk  11:53, 25 May 2022 (UTC)

ITV Nightscreen.

Hi, I am considering cleaning up ITV Nightscreen. I would like to expand information about unwind with ITV into a section (since it’s not notable enough to have its own article), and would also like to create redirects from ‘Unwind with ITV’ and ‘Unwind with STV’ to that section in the article. Would this be okay since I’m not sure if this goes against any MOS polices for this area of Wikipedia. I also want to add links to the website where the production music can be found for reference. Would this be allowed too? I did do this in the past although I’m not sure if it went against any policies or anything because I was new here. Hope you can help. Many thanks! Blanchey (talk) 13:50, 25 June 2022 (UTC)

I don't really have any strong feelings about this. It would be better to ask at Talk:ITV Nightscreen where other editors may see it and respond.  Dr Greg  talk  21:42, 25 June 2022 (UTC)

Unfortunately, I don’t think many editors read the talk pages for certain articles like this one so I think I will just go ahead with the changes (like I did before) and hopefully there should be no issues, since I have sources etc… if there are any issues though, I will take them down. Thanks for your advice nonetheless. Kind regards, Blanchey (talk) 08:23, 26 June 2022 (UTC)

It would have been nice

I inadvertently placed an external link in ‘See also’ instead of ‘External links’ on The Avengers (TV series). Instead of the condescending revert, it would have been nice and civilized to alert me or dealt with this otherwise specially considering WP:GOODFAITH. Thanks, Quaerens-veritatem (talk) 04:13, 5 September 2022 (UTC)

I'm sorry you feel that way. It wasn't my intention to sound condenscending. I was just following Wikipedia's standard WP:BRD ("bold, revert, discuss") cycle: you boldly made a change, I disagreed and reverted it, and if we can't agree, further discussion can take place. It's "BRD", not "BDR". I thought my edit summary ("The "See also" section is for Wikipedia articles only, not external links") was purely factual and did not imply bad faith. I wasn't aware of your level of experience, and didn't know whether I was telling you something you already knew or not. Sorry if it didn't come across as I intended. -- Dr Greg  talk  12:24, 5 September 2022 (UTC)

M61 junction box

First of all I would like to thank you for all the improvements you have made to the junction box, I will be implementing these changes in future ones I do, but secondly I would like to ask you where you sourced the coordinates for junctions 1, 2, and 3. the ones I got were obtained by looking at the route map on https://www.roads.org.uk/motorway/m61/ which could be unreliable due to being self published. Blolbly (talk) 14:08, 25 September 2022 (UTC)

I've replied at Talk:M61 motorway#Junctions 1 to 3, so that others can join in if they want.  Dr Greg  talk  15:28, 25 September 2022 (UTC)

Ever Decreasing Circles

Hi Dr Greg.

Thanks for reverting my recent edit: your edit summary makes complete sense, and I've learnt something!

All the best, ~dom Kaos~ (talk) 09:59, 30 October 2022 (UTC)

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William Tell

Just to let you know that ATV London (Weekend) did air William Tell first. They aired it on Saturdays from Sept 1958 before ATV Midlands aired the episodes on a Monday. https://www.dropbox.com/sh/60o7ftw4qkbzqqq/AABj1-i4TunmXikWnZ8-FX1aa?dl=0&fbclid=IwAR0ZUgpEo02YPHlUFqIjVOWergblACTm-N7b9cBNN-bBcrvFLC5ahJ1rsDE&lst=&preview=TVT19580907.pdf (Look at page 36). Benriggers (talk) 15:43, 19 January 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for that. I've added a footnote to the article (The Adventures of William Tell).  Dr Greg  talk  19:25, 19 January 2023 (UTC)

Flower Pot Men

It’s not misuse of an apostrophe: if series were plural, it would be series' (see St James's Park)

But I don't care enough about it to get into an edit war, so you're welcome.

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File:English non-metropolitan counties coloured by type map 2023.svg

I'm slightly confused by what this map is supposed to represent. For instance, Berkshire has no county council and consists entirely of unitary authorities and is blue. Meanwhile, Cheshire has no county council and consists entirely of unitary authorities and is green. Derbyshire has a county council, but is red with a patch of green (presumably representing Derby). According to the descriptions for the categories, places like Cheshire and Cumbria should be blue, because they are not counties "with one district". Similarly, the unitary carve-outs in otherwise two-tier counties aren't in and of themselves a "county with one district". Could someone offer some clarity on this? 82.6.23.101 (talk) 17:28, 6 May 2023 (UTC)

Sorry, I meant to put this on the article talk page. Either way, any answers would be appreciated, thanks. 82.6.23.101 (talk) 17:32, 6 May 2023 (UTC)

There is a difference between ceremonial counties and non-metropolitan counties.

• Cheshire is a ceremonial county but not a non-metropolitan county. It is subdivided into a number of unitary authorities (each of which is both a non-metropolitan county (green) and a non-metropolitan district). Bedfordshire, Northamptonshire and Cumbria are similar.
• Derbyshire is both a ceremonial county and a non-metropolitan county, but the two types of county have different boundaries. The non-metropolitan county (red) has a county council which excludes Derby. Derby is a unitary authority (which is both a non-metropolitan county (green) and a non-metropolitan district) which is outside the non-metropolitan county of Derbyshire but inside the ceremonial county of Derbyshire. There are lots of other counties like this.
• Berkshire is an exception to the rules and is both a ceremonial county and a non-metropolitan county with the same boundaries, but anomalously the non-metropolitan county has no county council (blue) and is subdivided into a number of unitary authorities (each of which is a non-metropolitan district with a council that has county-council powers, but, anomalously, is not legally a non-metropolitan county).

I've updated the key to the map on Wikimedia Commons to emphasise that it is the thin lines are the non-metropolitan county boundaries (the thick lines being ceremonial boundaries).  Dr Greg  talk  18:21, 6 May 2023 (UTC)

Westward Television

Hi, I don't know whether you are an admin but it strikes me that recent edits to the Westward Television page (and others) are potentially libellous, in that there is a list of names of people accused of strike breaking without evidence. How does one go about getting the visibility of these edits changed and can the perpetrator be blocked? Murgatroyd49 (talk) 07:35, 27 July 2023 (UTC)

Further, I have reason to believe that UntimelyHouse (talk · contribs) is a sockpuppet of Taylorc9381 (talk · contribs), see the reference to Taylor Films in the former's recent edits. Murgatroyd49 (talk) 09:08, 27 July 2023 (UTC)

No, I'm not an admin. Sorry, I was going to reply to this, but it looks like you've already dealt with this at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/ProTaylorCraft. Wow, looking at the archive for that, this is a long-term serial offender!  Dr Greg  talk  18:58, 28 July 2023 (UTC)

I must admit I was amazed at the results! Trouble is I suspect he will pop up again in another guise. Murgatroyd49 (talk) 19:01, 28 July 2023 (UTC)

Back again with this edit  Dr Greg  talk  20:13, 31 July 2023 (UTC)

Didn't take long! Murgatroyd49 (talk) 20:23, 31 July 2023 (UTC)

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Susie Dent and Rachel Riley

Hi Dr Greg, I apologized for my mistake about Dent and Riley. I thought they're comedians at this point because they both had funny moments on comedy-game show, 8 Out of Cats Does Countdown. And also, thanks for your explanation about them. Ernestine Sanchez (talk) 13:18, 12 December 2023 (UTC)

No problem. A good guide is to look at someone's Wikipedia article and see if the first sentence describes them as a "comedian".  Dr Greg  talk  13:51, 12 December 2023 (UTC)

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