User talk:Rich Farmbrough/Archive/2004 October

UK/United Kingdom
I see that you keep changing "UK" to "United Kingdom". Is this a standard laid down in the MoS, or just your arbitrary personal decision? -- Jmabel 18:43, Oct 7, 2004 (UTC)


 * You've done this on a few pages I wrote or did the edit that put in UK. In each and every case, UK scans a lot better than United Kingdom. I'm chaning them to UK, as it makes more sense. I'd appreciate if you did this where it scans better. Thanks. Kiand 19:24, 7 October 2004 (UTC)


 * UK is a disambiguation page. As Kiand points out  UK can look better than United Kingdom in some circumstances, indeed some changes were to that.  Please feel free to change any that you wish to what you think looks best.  I have disambiguated all references to UK (and they were all to United Kingdom:).  Now back to British... Rich Farmbrough 22:46, 7 October 2004 (UTC)


 * I'm with Kiand on this. And why on earth is UK a disambiguation page? It almost always has one meaning. I'd think that should be a redirect to United Kingdom and the disambiguation page should be UK (disambiguation). Oh, well. -- Jmabel 22:53, Oct 7, 2004 (UTC)


 * I agree, perhaps I should have been bolder and made the redirect. Rich Farmbrough 23:04, 7 October 2004 (UTC)


 * I went ahead and made the redirect; this also concurs with the opinions on Talk:Uk. --Michael Snow 06:03, 8 October 2004 (UTC)


 * Thanks Michael. Rich Farmbrough 08:40, 8 October 2004 (UTC)

Please check links
On Vickers Vimy you changed a link British to British. UK is in fact a disambiguation page, so your change did not improve the article. You should instead have made your link something like British. Please check a link goes to where you think it does. Thanks, &mdash;Morven 20:16, Oct 1, 2004 (UTC)
 * My mistake. All being fixed now. Rich Farmbrough 15:32, 5 October 2004 (UTC)
 * UK and British are not the same thing. At all. The United Kingdom is the entire Union, Britain is the island. For example, Northern Ireland *is* in the UK but is *not* in Britain. Might be advisable to leave links like that as-is Kiand 19:25, 7 October 2004 (UTC)
 * British itself is a diasmbiguation page.Rich Farmbrough 12:27, 8 October 2004 (UTC)