User talk:Patrick Neylan

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Avars
I don`t have any particular interest in the issue. I just wanted, simply, to make the article better. I saw your last edit, and I agree with most of it, although there are two issue I want to comment upon:


 * 1) However, evidence is mounting in favour of the theory that the Avars who settled in Transylvania (called pseudo-avars by early geographers)... - This is wrong. The Avars didn`t settled Transylvania. They settled the Pannonian plain. Transylvania was an inaccesible place, sorrounded by mountains and thick forests, inhospitable for the Avar way of life. They most probably did control it from the military pov, but they didn`t settled it. This confusion probable came from the theory that the Szekelys are the descendants of the Avars. Irrespective of the validity of that theory, the Szekely settled Transylvania in the 13th century, being colonised by king Andrew of Hungary.
 * 2) The skeletons found in European Avar graves are of a common type, inculding Mongoloid features,... - I think the phrasing skeletons found in European Avar graves show heterogenity is better. Common type is common only to a specific place. A common type in Europe, is naturaly not the same to the common type found in Asia for example. Regarding this subject, you could check out this article.

I forgot to say that I agree to the way you want to structure the article. Go ahead! :D Cheers!

Iconoclasm
You'll have to do a bit better than that to explain the problem! As it is, it's worse than no explanation - though it will doubtless provoke someone else or me to improve it. Johnbod 02:57, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

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MS Stena Lagan
Yes, but you made the change without saying that the article was stating the wrong measurement. Upon checking the reference, which was dead, I later found what you were talking about. I corrected the reference and added the correct template. Thank you for your help.Pennsy22 (talk) 04:00, 30 October 2018 (UTC)

GRT
Your changes to GRT - GT were wrongly flagged as post 1992, hence my reverting them initially. Regards Murgatroyd49 (talk) 21:58, 5 December 2019 (UTC)

Indeed, I made a typo so your revert was understandable. Patrick Neylan (talk) 17:32, 7 December 2019 (UTC)

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GT-GRT
Re BP shipping, while you are correct that the company shoud be quoting GT, it is in fact quoting GRT. Even if that is incorrect that was the reference cited says. It is one of the bugbears of the reliance on cited secondary sources. If you want to change it you should change the references as well to justify it. Regards Murgatroyd49 (talk) 22:02, 6 January 2021 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the note; I understand your point, but I have to question the "rules is rules" justification for changing something we both know is right to something we both know is wrong. Patrick Neylan (talk) 00:25, 13 January 2021 (UTC)
 * In which case change the citation. Murgatroyd49 (talk) 09:26, 13 January 2021 (UTC)

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Regarding File:Penn turnpike.jpg, I think you have the wrong copyright license tag. I don't think that the US Federal Government published that postcard. That said, if the postcard didn't have a copyright notice on it, given its age, it would have been in the public domain at publication.

File:M-28 & M-178.jpg is a photograph from a postcard from no later than 1941. (M-178 was removed that year.) I bought that postcard on eBay, and it has no copyright notice anywhere on it. I used the proper license tag and uploaded it to Wikimedia Commons. If your copy of that Pennsylvania postcard lacks a copyright notice, then use the same PD-US-no notice tag and put it on Commons.  Imzadi 1979  →   22:41, 7 July 2024 (UTC)