User talk:Neil McLachlan

 Hello, Neil McLachlan, and Welcome to Wikipedia!  Welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you enjoy the encyclopedia and want to stay. As a first step, you may wish to read the Introduction.

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Neil McLachlan, good luck, and have fun. Pam  D  09:04, 30 September 2021 (UTC)  Pam  D  09:04, 30 September 2021 (UTC)

Time and Tide Bell
Hallo, I created that article (after seeing the one in Morecambe, just down the road), and must apologise for not mentioning your name. My focus was mainly on the locations ... and the technical achievement of creating first the table and then the labelled map!

Wikipedia has a policy that people should not write about themselves, so technically I should probably have reverted your edit and then replaced the content myself - but I supplied a reliable source which shows you as the designer, so the edit should be acceptable to anyone.

In general, the WP rules say that if you want to suggest additions or changes to information about yourself you should do so on the talk page of the article - see Autobiography for far too much information.

Having now read about the Federation Bells and the Federation Handbells (hidden within Prayer Bells, hmm, needs some attention there), I'm wondering whether you might pass the bar for WP:Notability and have an article on yourself - but I need to get on with some real life stuff and mustn't succumb to the temptation to spend the whole morning on Wikipedia editing. Maybe sometime.

Sorry again about not mentioning you. Perhaps I need to expand that whole article sometime ... and try again to grab a screenshot of the current logo, as the one in the article is from an old version of the website, but the current website is so sophisticated that I've struggled to capture the logo. Pam D  09:14, 30 September 2021 (UTC)

OK, found and updated the logo - doesn't look great as it's used on a dark background on the website, but there it is. Pam D  09:23, 30 September 2021 (UTC)