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Minor Edits
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Orphaned non-free media (Image:Candy Dulfer montreux.jpg)
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Infoboxes and precision of co-ordinates.
Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. Regarding your edits to Crail, it is recommended that you use the preview button before you save; this helps you find any errors you have made, reduces edit conflicts, and prevents clogging up recent changes and the page history. Thank you.

I've just had to reedit after you for Crail and Blebo Craigs, as you had left the old coord template at the bottom of the article, so that the new co-ordinates in the infobox and the old ones were overlaid at the top of the article. Please also consider the precision used for that and the OS grid reference; 4 decimal places for a village (eg 56.3259,-2.9237) is quite adequate, which corresponds to an eight-digit grid reference, so a six-digit reference would be better. If you wish to reply, I'll see it here. Tim PF (talk) 13:57, 24 June 2011 (UTC)


 * Thanks Tim - just getting the hang of this! Cheers, Dickon --Dickonprior (talk) 16:48, 24 June 2011 (UTC)


 * We were all new here once. I noticed you didn't get a proper welcome, so I added the belated one with the cookies below, but I've masted the page with a more comprehensive welcome. One thing that isn't clear is the definition of a minor edit, which you are using for non-minor edits (perhaps inadvertantly).
 * I've to your new Boarhills article, mostly to conform to the Manual of Style. Tim PF (talk) 20:44, 24 June 2011 (UTC)

A belated welcome!
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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:County councils of Scotland


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Sutherland County Council moved to draftspace
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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Former county councils of Scotland


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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:History of Sutherland


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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Local government in Sutherland


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Fionn Loch moved to draftspace
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Your submission at Articles for creation: Sutherland County Council (December 10)
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Your submission at Articles for creation: First Coast, Highland has been accepted
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Your draft article, Draft:Sutherland County Council


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