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Caps and organisms
I noticed your changes to various island articles. Someone changed the WP:MOS entry a couple of weeks ago about species capitalisation without any discussion. There was a lengthy debate about this back in 2008. I have reverted MOS to the original and intend to change back the entries at Raasay. I agree it can look a bit odd but there are reasons for it. Happy to talk more about this but must dash now. Regards. Ben  Mac  Dui  08:51, 30 June 2010 (UTC)

Weaver Hills
Thanks for your comment. I think that there is still some case for keeping, modified, the suggestion. While it may depend upon the speculative point as to whether tarmac would permanently cease quarrying that specific site, there may be a way of phrasing the potential for an Eden Project in a more encyclopaedic way. Anyway, welcome to Wikipedia. I was at your stage a couple of years ago. Writing exact and informative material is a useful discpline, especially when you are writing about a subject you know, but have to put in all the references to back up what you say. Robert of Ramsor (talk) 00:33, 21 July 2010 (UTC)

It's about time...
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Note on &lt;em>
Hey Cecil, I'd just like to point out that you can surround text with pairs of single-quotes instead of using &lt;em> tags. ᛭ LokiClock (talk) 16:19, 30 May 2011 (UTC)

Capital punishment
Hi,

I wanted to give you a heads-up in the article on Capital punishment. A graphic placeholder was inserted immediately prior to the section Public opinion and I couldn't tell if you'd intended to add more or it was an error.

best regards, --UnicornTapestry (talk) 06:31, 13 October 2011 (UTC)

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Universal Life Church
FYI - the link to dmoz should be ok, we don't need all those links, if we have them people will argue that every little ULC faction should have a link there, instead of in dmzos where it belongs. Me-123567-Me (talk) 18:33, 4 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Hey, thanks for your note. :-) It's just that I've seen many people edit war over this article, especially over which "ULC" should be covered, and which should have links. The consensus seems to be the main church that started it all should be covered, etc. And we use dmoz to avoid link fights. When the main church gets their website back up, we'll put that link back in. Me-123567-Me (talk) 14:57, 5 June 2012 (UTC)

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Language markups
Hi, could you talk me through the purpose of these language markups (Deuddwr, Powys & Gruffydd ap Llywelyn) please. Many thanks, Daicaregos (talk) 15:42, 23 December 2017 (UTC)

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PPPoA Revision Question
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Hi Tim, could you help point me in the right direction, I am a bit lost CecilWard (talk) 20:37, 24 August 2018 (UTC)

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