User talk:Owen Slatraigh

January 2010
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File source and copyright licensing problem with File:Bilders NAG WgtnNZ1988.jpg
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Holloway Press (publisher)
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Re:List of names in English with counterintuitive pronunciations
Hi owen - you recently added three place names to this page... unfortunately, two of them are not pronounced the way you seem to think they are - neither Moray Place, Dunedin, nor Outram, New Zealand is pronounced counterintuitively. Grutness...wha?  04:37, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

Hi Grutness. I believe Outram is promounced OO-tr.. I believe Moray is pronounced as in Murray. How do you believe they are pronounced? 22:25, 30 May 2015 (UTC)22:25, 30 May 2015 (UTC)22:25, 30 May 2015 (UTC)22:25, 30 May 2015 (UTC)22:25, 30 May 2015 (UTC)22:25, 30 May 2015 (UTC)22:25, 30 May 2015 (UTC)~

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Alfred Domett
Thanks for your additions to Alfred Domett. I've had to revert your links to external photos as we do not put external links into the prose of an article. Sorry for that. Your options are:
 * leave things the way they are
 * add those links to the section called "External links"
 * Domett's bio is rather short and there is so much more that could be written about him. If the article becomes longer, it could hold more images. Anything from back then is now in the public domain, hence uploading those photos to Commons and then using them in this article directly would become an option.

If you have any questions please ask. Here's good; I'll keep an eye on your page. But I've got a week's worth of holiday coming up so may not respond swiftly.  Schwede 66  06:42, 9 January 2019 (UTC)


 * Hi there, oh I still have a lot to learn with Wiki, but thank you for your explanation. I'll add those links to the external links section as you suggested. Have a good holiday. (Owen Slatraigh (talk) 20:04, 9 January 2019 (UTC))
 * Happy to help.  Schwede 66  20:42, 9 January 2019 (UTC)

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Bare URLs
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