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Sonofabitch
Happy New Year to you Bill. Perhaps I am still a little fey from the festivities, but I am still chuckling about some of my holiday reading and am about to post something at Karl Hundason (where you are mentioned in despatches at the talk page). Have a great 2012. Ben  Mac  Dui  10:54, 2 January 2012 (UTC)


 * . . . and a belated Happy New Year to you too, MacDui! Where does the time go?  Can't believe its over 4 years since I started this  and was going to add to Angus's article but never got round to it&mdash;must try harder.  Look forward to seeing your addition and hope it gives me fresh inspiration.  All the best for 2012 to you too. --Bill Reid | (talk) 14:54, 4 January 2012 (UTC)

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I just wanted to let you know, just in case you've not looked onto my page, that Cwmhiraeth has decided to take on the Article and see if it meets the GA criteria. I'm sure you'll encounter him once you're back with the reviews! And not a problem, in reference of your article. It's a well-organized and well-sourced (from what I can tell, but I'm one person), and I'm willing to help improve Wikipedia's GA article ratio where I can, and I hope yours makes the cut! LeftAire (talk) 04:33, 1 March 2012 (UTC)

Middle-aged Christianity
Welcome back. The only serious lack of references are now Scotland in the High Middle Ages. I have managed to get a copy of Duncan, A.A.M., Scotland: The Making of the Kingdom which woffles about this so I could have a bash if you don't have the time, but please let me know one way or the other as the FARC is now over a month old. Ben  Mac  Dui  20:43, 9 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Ta. Believe it or not I've made a start (offline) but I need some books my titchy public library doesn't have so I'm going to go in and ask them how their budget is and see if they would order them up. Maybe I'm wrong (let me know if you think I am) but my feeling is that a bit of the history of the period before the High Middle Ages, ie the early church in Pictland and Dal Riata and what happened to the church leading up to the formation of Alba, the deconstruction of old ideas regarding the Celtic Church in modern historiography, and the need to explain the later changes that ocurred under David I.  Its quite a big topic but I think it needs doing.  Duncan, I think, will still be in the old camp re this but if you wanted to reference what is already in the article pending an update then I'll continue to work on that update but it looks like it won't be as quick as I thought due to lack of immediate resources.  If shove comes to push I'll get the books myself but goes against my grippy Scottish nature!! --Bill Reid | (talk) 17:28, 11 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Understood - I will probably have a quick bash at condensing the existing section per Duncan, Mackie and other sources available from the 2nd hand bookshop, which may suffice for the FAR and leave you to provide the concluding cavalry charge. I'm saving my pennies for obscure insular topics. Perhaps we need a WP Scotland User-library.  Ben   Mac  Dui  10:03, 12 March 2012 (UTC)

Talk:Gordon Brown
Please see new discussion. Cheers. --Mais oui! (talk) 09:26, 28 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Yes. Completely agree with you. Time the article is restored to NPOV. Will have a go as soon as time permits.  Thanks for heads-up. Bill Reid | (talk) 11:28, 28 March 2012 (UTC)

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Please see: --Mais oui! (talk) 04:54, 12 May 2012 (UTC)
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Mensa (ecclesiastical) ‎
Is Mensa (ecclesiastical) a Roman Catholic term? I would like to add a WikiProject talk page, but am unsure.--DThomsen8 (talk) 21:44, 4 September 2013 (UTC)


 * Yes, I'm pretty sure it is although the 'Prebendary' which is very closely related still finds usage in the Anglican Church as well as the RC Church but now is purely an honourific title.--Bill Reid | (talk) 08:49, 5 September 2013 (UTC)

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Elgin Cathedral
Very good to see the article promoted. Despite your reticence, your important input has not escaped notice. Bravo! Tim riley (talk) 20:07, 20 September 2013 (UTC)
 * What a pleasing message on my talk page! I hope you will press ahead with any potential FACs you have up your sleeve. May I suggest going to peer review before FAC? It's more comfortable, in my experience, to deal with wikicolleagues' suggestions in the relative cosiness of PR rather than in the glinting scrutiny of FAC. There will be quite enough of the latter even so. Be that as it may, please drop me a line on my talk page if taking an article to either PR or FAC and I shall gladly look in. Tim riley (talk) 15:04, 21 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Congratulations - I can hear the pealing from the high bell towers from here...  Ben   Mac  Dui  07:53, 23 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Thank you. And what a racket they made! Could hear them in Aberdeen. --Bill Reid | (talk) 09:31, 23 September 2013 (UTC)

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List of British monarchs
I don't know why you undid my edit to this article, but I assume you did not pay attention to what it was. Please be careful. Richard75 (talk) 19:42, 18 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Sorry, Richard, my intention was to revert the IP who was vandalising the article but on checking the history I see you got in in front of me and my rollback was on your edit and not the IP. Should have been more careful. --Bill Reid | (talk) 17:05, 19 November 2013 (UTC)

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Elgin Cathedral is a historic ruin in Elgin, Moray, north-east Scotland. The cathedral, dedicated to the Holy Trinity, was established in 1224 on land granted by King Alexander II. After a damaging fire in 1270, a rebuilding programme greatly enlarged the building. It was unaffected by the Wars of Independence but suffered further fire damage in 1390 and 1402. The cathedral was abandoned at the time of the Scottish Reformation in 1560 and its services transferred to Elgin's parish church. After the removal of the lead that waterproofed the roof in 1567, the cathedral steadily fell into decay. Its deterioration was arrested in the 19th century, by which time the building was in a substantially ruinous condition. Today, the walls are at full height in places and at foundation level in others yet the overall cruciform shape is still discernible. The chapterhouse is mostly intact, as are the two towers of the west front and the gable wall above the double door entrance that links them. Recessed and chest tombs contain effigies of bishops and knights, while large flat slabs in the now grass-covered floor of the cathedral mark the positions of early graves. UcuchaBot (talk) 23:01, 1 April 2014 (UTC)

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Thanks for that. The result was 15 editors agreed with QEII and 2 editors saying "Unclear", but those 2 are arguing heavily about it. There is another survey about how to handle this result if you are interested at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Politics. There are four questions, but note that the Australian head of state dispute page may be merged or deleted for question 4. Travelmite (talk) 15:58, 26 February 2016 (UTC)

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Maid of Norway
Hello and happy New Year! I've recently revamped the article about Margaret, Maid of Norway. I would appreciate if you could take a look. Surtsicna (talk) 17:48, 3 January 2020 (UTC)


 * Hi Surtsicna, happy new year to you as well. A very good expansion of the article starting last April.  I have a problem with the anachronistic term British Isles, a description that appeared first in the mid-16th Century.  I know Michael Penman in Oram used it but other historians say that Margaret's intended journey was to be Orkney to Scotland (where nobles had already gathered at Scone, probably in anticipation of the inauguration) or that she was to travel directly to England for the betrothal to Prince Edward and then to travel on to Scotland for the inauguration. Bill Reid | (talk) 15:14, 5 January 2020 (UTC)
 * I've given it some thought. I wished to avoid being overly specific about the destination because the historians cannot agree on the specifics. Would Great Britain be better? It includes Scotland and England but not Orkney, which might not matter since Orkney was never intended to be her final destination. Surtsicna (talk) 22:55, 21 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Great Britain, as you now have it, is fine or even more simply, as Duncan has it, simply Britain piped to Great Britain? Not a big deal though. Bill Reid | (talk) 15:23, 29 January 2020 (UTC)

Comment on my page
Thanks for the comment! Glad you liked the page. I did it with myself because the new paragraph is meant to be a shift in tense, and also, since there is no other pronoun in that sentence, it's meant to be a humorous shift. Packer1028 (talk) 19:39, 13 September 2020 (UTC)