Talk:St Alban's, Hertfordshire

194.117.133.118. If you log in and create a user you can move a page and preserve the edit history, rather than cut and paste a move. Mintguy 12:14 Dec 27, 2002 (UTC)
 * except (I think) even if you are logged in you can't move TO a page that has an edit history so it wouldn't have helped me anyway. But if this is wrong please let me know. 194.117.133.118 12:24 Dec 27, 2002 (UTC)
 * Oh except that that one did NOT already exist so I am talking rubbish, sorry.


 * Not 194.117.133.118, but I've had the same problem: had a userid once but lost when the software changed. I don't want another.  Why does moving an article require a userid?

So the article is moved again - this must be title number 6. See Talk:St. Alban's, Hertfordshire. I still don't think it needs an apostrophe.


 * It quite possibly does NOT need an apostrophe and sure as h*ll does not need the dot. I think people are confusing what they think is "correct" (though they are of course simply WRONG about the dot, everywhere, irrespective of which place or saint it is) with what is in use. But it's a losing battle - not sure I can be bothered. 194.117.133.118 12:31 Dec 27, 2002 (UTC)


 * See Periods in abbreviations in American and British English Differences Mintguy


 * Oh. I was wrong. Sorry. I've reverted the note I put in Saints about this, though I do think that as St Albans is a UK place it should still have the correct UK usage. But I was not right to suggest that St. is totally wrong worldwide: clearly it is OK in US usage and I apologise for not knowing this. 194.117.133.118 12:44 Dec 27, 2002 (UTC)


 * I think it's definitely St Albans look on an OS Map. Mintguy


 * Yup, Tarquin has intervened and sorted it out so it is just St Albans, to which I say well done. I have redone all the links I could find. 194.117.133.118 14:11 Dec 27, 2002 (UTC)