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Dundee
Hey. Aye, didn't handle that one very well did I? My inital thinking was it would be easier for casual viewers to find if the search for Dundee West took them to Dundee City...I can see the logic and reason behind having two, well 4, separate articles. I've tried to point people in the right direction with constant menetions and links doktorb wordsdeeds 15:46, 20 February 2011 (UTC)

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 * Hello Barryob. There's a discussion at Commons about deleting some of your maps (now replaced by SVGs, so I understand), here, if you want to comment. Cheers, Angus McLellan (Talk) 13:22, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

RE: Aberdeenshire West (Scottish Parliament constituency)
From the article itself:

For the Scottish Parliament election, 2011, West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine will be abolished, replaced in part by Aberdeen South and North Kincardine, Aberdeenshire East, and Aberbdeenshire West

Since the template in question refers to the 2011 Elections it should not be there. Thanks, 狐 Déan rolla bairille!   18:22, 7 May 2011 (UTC)
 * ...Oops. Never mind me, just making an airse oot masel. 狐 Déan rolla bairille!   18:25, 7 May 2011 (UTC)

Maps
In case you aren't aware there is a significant problem with some of your maps - the boundaries shown are the extent of the realm, not the coastline. This is most noticeable in Shetland where Unst gets merged with the mainland, but can be seen elsewhere. Things like including England and the colours are stylistic concerns (and so minor). I'm also a little concerned about the sourcing - the maps are not entirely your own work, but derived from someone's boundary data (at a guess OS).--Nilfanion (talk) 18:57, 7 May 2011 (UTC)

Scottish Election on ITN
I think its sadly too late now, yesterday you should have started a "renom" section like I did for the Intel chips story. Currently the only thing it can do is displace the UK AV referendum. -- Eraserhead1 &lt;talk&gt; 20:30, 10 May 2011 (UTC)

File Scottish Parliament
Is there like an image creator or something so i could make a graph like that thanks and please answer back. Mikeyandreality (talk) 20:17, 13 August 2011 (UTC)

General election redirect
Morning Barry

I have undone your move of the 2015 general election article. Unilateral moves without debate are never a good idea. There is no guarantee that the election will be in 2015 - this is the first time the UK will use fixed-term parliaments so until we get closer to the date this parliament could still fall on a no confidence vote etc. There is no rush to move the article in any case; the important articles to look at are the constituency articles where results are still outstanding. doktorb wordsdeeds 09:02, 20 November 2011 (UTC)

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User:GoodDay's resumed vandalisation spree of First Minister infoboxes
I think that you have a right to know that I had aleady raised exactly this issue with the User currently inhabiting last chance saloon. Please see: Cheers. --Mais oui! (talk) 05:15, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:GoodDay&diff=463237534&oldid=463199269
 * The Scotland talk pages are filled with is POV points and constant raising of the same issues over and over again, I see there was a call for a request for comment with regards to his behaviour, perhaps that would be the next step. -- Barryob  (Contribs)   (Talk)  15:05, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
 * I'm sick to the back teeth of this. Time and time and time again Users call to an RfC on GoodDay, and yet none of us have the time or energy for it. This exposes a fatal flaw in Wikipedia as currently constituted. I for one am not going to waste my time on the beaurocratic route. I will simply revert any and all of his vacuous edits to articles on my Watchlist. Other WikiProjects can look after their own backyards. --Mais oui! (talk) 08:18, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Then in effect, you're promising to stalk me, on those particulary articles, which you're gonna take an ownership stance. GoodDay (talk) 12:27, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
 * I don't think it would be stalking if justified, eg, if rolling back a series of Pointy edits that were placed purely for that reason, as so many of GoodDay's are. Then it would just be maintaining the Cyclopedia properly. Jamesinderbyshire (talk) 13:18, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
 * My edit aren't pointy & were supported by Tim!. It's Mais' reverts, that are pointy. GoodDay (talk) 16:28, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
 * I have requested a RFC see Requests for comment/GoodDay -- Barryob  (Contribs)   (Talk)  18:30, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
 * I've already drop the issue concerning FM articles. GoodDay (talk) 18:32, 4 December 2011 (UTC)

GoodDay
I added material to your RfC If you are not happy with this then I will take it out and make a section under endorsement. However it seems to me that this needs to be more extensive -- Snowded  TALK  04:35, 5 December 2011 (UTC)

Selby rail crash
You do know there is no consensus in talk for this move, don't you? --John (talk) 21:01, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
 * No as I wasn't aware it was a contentious move. -- Barryob  (Contribs)   (Talk)  16:40, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
 * May I suggest you move it back then? All offical Railway sources refer to it as Great Heck and the article does mention it was known in the media as the Selby crash but I think the title should acttually reflect where it actually happened than merely the nearest town. 157.203.254.1 (talk) 05:34, 20 January 2012 (UTC)
 * You have rather made a mockery of the rather involved discussion which went on on the Talk page about the name change by moving it without even mentioning you thought it should move. I think a move back is required. Zozzie 9t9 (talk) 17:32, 20 January 2012 (UTC)

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Hi there. I am reverting the templates back to their old ways because I was really dissatisfied by the way that they looked under the changes. However, I did make some improvements to templates such as the political ones for all four countries in the UK, but someone changed them back. Other than that, I did make some edits to other templates and I didn't revert them back. JAU123 User talk:JAU123 18:37, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

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Please see: --Mais oui! (talk) 06:06, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
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House of Lords
Your house of Lords diagram is great...question is how did you make one =p I would like to know so i can make some more my own purposes. Thanks Mikeyandreality (talk) 21:02, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

Winston Churchill (grandson)
I think you put the mfd tag on the wrong page (you probably meant to tag the redirect); in any case, I have now done so here, at Winston Churchill (born 1940); if the speedy goes through, the closing admin should move the page to that title. cheers, --KarlB (talk) 16:25, 22 July 2012 (UTC)

Image request
As best I can tell, you created File:North East Scotland (Scottish Parliament electoral region).svg and its siblings, but there is no File:South Scotland (Scottish Parliament electoral region).svg. I would create it myself, but the SVG code isn't labelled, and I don't have Inkscape or the like. Is there any chance you'll do it? -Rrius (talk) 08:50, 20 August 2012 (UTC)

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Total mess: Cabinet Secretary for Parliamentary Business and Government Strategy
I discovered 3 nearly identical articles, with different titles: Exasperated by this mess, I rapidly redirected them all to point at Minister for Parliamentary Business and Chief Whip. However, it now appears that for a short period there was actually a Cabinet position with a similar role. As one of the very few editors around here who knows about the SG, can you help sort out the mess and clarify the situation? Ta. --Mais oui! (talk) 04:46, 8 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Minister for Parliamentary Business
 * Minister for Parliamentary Business and Chief Whip
 * Cabinet Secretary for Parliamentary Business and Government Strategy
 * I know the ministerial articles are all over the place, will try tackling some of them next week. -- Barryob  (Contribs)   (Talk)  17:44, 9 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I have spotted your work on these articles.
 * The more I read of Wikipedia's coverage of Scottish government and administration the more I realise what a dogs' breakfast it all is. We really do need a tremendous amount of work on the Scottish health, education, legal and transport systems, and they are really only the tip of the iceberg. A lot of really key topic articles are either non-existent or pathetic stubs which have festered unloved for many years. Today, for example, I started the Secondary education in Scotland article, but it would take days of work to even begin to do justice to such a huge topic, bringing it up to, say, C class. I just haven't the time for that, and I suspect that you don't either. But all your work is greatly appreciated. --Mais oui! (talk) 08:16, 17 October 2012 (UTC)

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Scottish Constituency Maps
Hi Barryob. I noticed that you uploaded to Wikimedia Commons. I was wondering the method that you used to create it. Did you just trace the image in the pdf document or is there a far simpler way of creating an svg version from the pdf? Many thanks. MrPenguin20 (talk) 11:50, 6 October 2014 (UTC)

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ArbCom elections are now open!
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Irish constituency maps 2016
Hi Barryob, you did great work doing constituency maps for the 2011 Irish general election, would you have any time to create constituency maps for 2016 Irish general election? Tx, Snappy (talk) 22:47, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

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Glasgow Wards Images (2017)
Hi my friend. I noticed that you altered an image in order to show the new wards and the council seat holders for each ward. I was wondering if you could tell me how you did this as I am currently trying to find a blank map of the council wards to add to a new page I am creating. Many thanks

The images I am talking about are — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pingu4581 (talk • contribs) 16:03, 9 May 2017 (UTC)
 * there is a page somewhere on Wikipedia with the instructions, I can remember where it is tho. Basically you need to change the file from .svg to .txt and edit it on notepad and file in the relevant information e.g. SNPSNPGreLab. I have noticed the edits you are making to the glasgow constituency articles the info included in the info box is good but I think there are fields you can use in the constituency info box to show this info also? I will have a go tomorrow at trying to combine them.00:42, 15 May 2017 (UTC)