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I have rename "Garway Church" to Garway Church. Happy editing. Mr Stephen 11:43, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

Thank you! I was wondering how to do that! And now I'm wondering how to respond to you - will you see this?

I'll print out the advisory material and read it later today. In the meantime I also (before I logged in) added a note about Garway Church to the Knights Templar in England pages - can someone tell me how to link that entry to the new Garway Church page? Plus the several other pages which are listed when I search for Garway?

Many thanks - I'll try to get things right soon!!

Goddardr 11:56, 22 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Ordinarily you would reply on my talk page, but I had added you to my watchlist. You set up 'wikilinks' to other pages by enclosing them in double square brackets; on the edit page it looks like this: Knights Templar, which comes out in the article as Knights Templar.  How to edit a page should help with the mechanics, and Manual of style should help with the style.  Be bold! Mr Stephen 12:07, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

Not had time to print yet so still floundering! Is your talk page the one with (curently) 3 sandbox links on it? Thx. Richard Goddardr 16:05, 22 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Welcome from me as well. Mr Stephen should have been explicit and said that his talk page is user talk:Mr Stephen. In my case I would expect you to reply here - I hate discussion threads that are split across different pages.
 * I felt that the articles were too short to justify being separate so I have merged them into Garway - with appropriate redirects of course. I hope you will find that everything that should link to Garway now does so - see special:whatlinkshere/Garway. Note that Marilyn fans like separate articles so Garway Hill should be left as a red link - unless you want to write the article! Note also that Abbeys and priories in England refers to the church as Garway Preceptory. -- RHaworth 06:26, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

Thank you - yes I agree about the merge. I'm not a Marylin walker (though do regularly climb Garway Hill and others in the Brecon Beacon) but agree about the Garway Hill link as well. There are fascinating stories about the Hill - I will try to get one of my friends who lives on it to write a starter.

I had noted the use of Preceptory in Abbeys and Priories - I believe this to be incorrect - it should be Commandry in this case - but I'm no authority. I will ask our local expert. I will also try to get some other info about all the villages around here up and running (my wife is the vicar of Garway and a number of other villages - hence the link to the community website). I did the Garway one first because of all the enquiries we get about Knights Templar and Garway Church (and no, they can't dig it up to find the Grail, whatever Dan Brown says)! Goddardr 07:55, 24 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Sorry for not replying before - I got dragged away from my PC for a couple of days. And now I know what a Marilyn is.  Mr Stephen 08:28, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

Yup, and you managed to spell Marilyn correctly, which is more than I did! Someone who records each new hilltop reached is called a Marilyn-Bagger. Whereas I just puff a lot when I get to the top and think about the pint I deserve on the way home. Goddardr 11:13, 24 May 2006 (UTC)