User talk:Kevmc21

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County Londonderry
Please refrain from altering references to County Londonderry to read County Derry. As per WP:DERRY the name of County Londonderry is to be used on Wikipedia. Also please note that, unlike the city naming, the name of County Derry is a purely colloquial name and not a historical name. If you read up on the history of County Londonderry you will see it was created from County Coleraine and there was not a historical County Derry previously that was renamed to Londonderry. If you continue to push edits that alter County Londonderry to read County Derry, you may be blocked from editing. Canterbury Tail talk 23:58, 3 September 2021 (UTC)

Please refrain from misunderstanding the word guidance. The style guide does not exist to dictate the style, it is simply there to give guidance. Kevmc21 (talk) 05:12, 4 September 2021 (UTC)

Although there may not have been an official County Derry. The information clearly says that British authorities (the colonial occupier) use the term Londonderry while Ireland uses Derry. In which case I suggest that historically Daire or Doire is correct. Democratically the majority of the people in the county also refer to it as County Derry today as the colonial reference is ignored by most. Kevmc21 (talk) 10:25, 4 September 2021 (UTC)
 * The fact still remains the county is created as County Londonderry, is in the United Kingdom, and the consensus on Wikipedia is to use County Londonderry for the county name. Please do not misunderstand this is a manual of style that has been agreed upon by consensus of editors and deviation would need a really good reason, and editing against a manual of style is considered disruptive. You're a new editor and enthusiastic, that's good, but we don't generally use colloquial names on Wikipedia and the IMOS represents the consensus of editors in Irish related topics. Canterbury Tail talk 11:08, 4 September 2021 (UTC)

The wrong Wikipedia
I think you are editing the wrong version of Wikipedia. You would need to work on the Middle English version. This version is Modern English. Kevmc21 (talk) 10:19, 4 September 2021 (UTC)