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Baron "Jock" Campbell and the Helensburgh Wikipedia page

Dear John Maynard Friedman,

I received an email recently to say that you had made some changes to the Wikipedia page for Helensburgh - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helensburgh

In particular you asked for information about Baron "Jock" Campbell of Eskan. The family connection to Camis Eskan is explained on this page - https://www.mackintosh-architecture.gla.ac.uk/catalogue/name/?nid=CampWM. Camis Eskan and Colgrain were two adjoining estates at the East End of Helensburgh; the latter is now part of Helensburgh.

Baron Jock Campbell was born in London and largely brought up on his mother's family's estates in Ireland. I have been unable to find out from the Internet whether he actually spent any time at Camis Eskan. The answer may lie in the back numbers of the local paper which are held in Helensburgh Library. This is currently closed because of COVID-19, but I shall try to remember to check it once the library reopens.

I have looked at the other changes which you made, and they all appear to be correct to me. However I do not know how to acknowledge this on Wikipedia itself.

Best wishes! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Stewartnbl (talk • contribs) 09:56, 13 May 2020 (UTC)

@Stewartnbl: leaving a note on my talk page is fine, though probably it would have been preferable to reply on talk:Helensburgh, which is where I raised the question. It makes no real difference except that now two people have responded to my idle curiosity rather than just one. Here in Milton Keynes, we have a debt of gratitude to Jock (and his colleagues of course) for having made our city an economic success and a nice place to live, when so many of the other 1960s New Towns have struggled. Thank you for your kind reply. Thank you especially for the URL at Glasgow, hopefully I can use it to improve his bio article. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 10:26, 13 May 2020 (UTC)

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Quotation marks

Please note that your replacement of double quotation marks (") with single quotation marks (') in this edit violates MOS:DOUBLE. — Mikhail Ryazanov (talk) 19:25, 26 May 2020 (UTC)

@Mikhail Ryazanov:, thank you, I'll check. Sometimes the boundary between 'simple glosses' and "a short but pithy expression" is not always obvious. I've been correcting a number of articles where clearly the wrong quote marks were being used. I may have overcompensated in this case.--John Maynard Friedman (talk) 19:31, 26 May 2020 (UTC)

By "simple glosses" the rules mean only simple glosses in linguistics ("that translate or define unfamiliar terms"). — Mikhail Ryazanov (talk) 19:38, 26 May 2020 (UTC)

@Mikhail Ryazanov:, ah! I've completely misunderstood!

<expletive deleted>.

I'll have to go back and check a lot of articles that I've edited.

Thank you. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 19:43, 26 May 2020 (UTC)

In Danish Language

Do you know maybe some Wikipedia Users, who could write "Danish withdrawal from the European Union" in Danish Language as a good Start? Wname1 (talk) 19:21, 25 May 2020 (UTC)

@Wname1:, the 'Danish wikipedia editor' that I thought I knew was .... you! I guessed incorrectly that, as you had put so much work into it and collected the citations, you could only be Danish. Sorry. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 19:31, 25 May 2020 (UTC)

Excuse me, I don't understand you completely, my English is only between B1 and B2 is written on my last certificate, I think. My Question is: Do you know maybe some Wikipedia Users who can start it in Danish? Wname1 (talk) 11:16, 27 May 2020 (UTC)

@Wname1: The simple answer is "no". --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 11:44, 27 May 2020 (UTC)