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Thank You
Thank You Spa-Franks for my award - I honestly never expected to receive it. On a different note though about the Austrian language issue, someone (and I can only assume they noticed the query from Project Austria has stated that Bavarian is technically German, and that in Austria, they refer to the 'dialect' in question as Austrian Dialect. So perhaps it would be wise to list the article as Austrian, with the footnote explaining it is a dialect from Upper Austria.  Wesley ☀ Mouse  17:26, 26 February 2012 (UTC)


 * I'm with you on that. But what we do to the 2012 article has got to be done to the 2003 article, which is why I proposed Styrian. Spa-Franks (talk) 17:45, 26 February 2012 (UTC)


 * There's not just the 2003 article, but also the 1971, and 1996 articles too. Perhaps listing all of those as "Austrian" and use a similar footnote as is used in 2012 to explain that even though the song is listed as "Austrian", the EBU classified it as Such'n'such-a-language.  Keeps to consistency.  Wesley ☀ Mouse  18:14, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

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Over ref-linking on Eurovision Song Contest 2012
Spa-Franks, I noticed the same reflink being used a plethora of times regarding participation lists, which you added a few moments ago. I have simplified your inclusion, so that the ref links appear on the column headers and not next to each artist/song. This is so that the reflist at the bottom of the article isn't drowned with too many "group link". Wesley ☀ Mouse 21:14, 10 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Sorry if I mucked up the article and took too long. I'm not good at that sort of thing and just as we "found" the calendar, I "found" that. Besides, when I add a ref, it always goes wrong in some way! Spa-Franks (talk) 21:16, 10 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Have you tried using the reftoolbar? I find it easier to use when it comes to adding refs.  Wesley ☀ Mouse  21:29, 10 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Yep! It's just, for instance, forgetting to delete a ref name I've replaced, or in the case of my horrible Italy ref, no tag. Spa-Franks (talk) 21:31, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Hmmm perhaps next time then, try using the "show preview" button, to see if your inclusions don't create ref errors, before saving the page into a final format. That's something I do regularly when I'm not rushing about or being distracted by the television, almost like a "print preview" before printing the final draft.  Wesley ☀ Mouse  21:35, 10 March 2012 (UTC)

WikiProject Eurovision: Discussion on the use of navigation templates
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WikiProject Eurovision: Recent changes
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Your fantastic suggestion for - Opinion polling for the next United Kingdom general election
Just seen your graph for Spanish 2015 polls and I have to say I am impressed! This sort of graph is much better than we had before! It doesn't just show a trend line but you can actually see all the figures plotted on the graph! This satisfies all concerns even ones that I had already comprimised on! I always say if it's possible to include more detail simply and easily, then just do it! Great solution, really pleased with th idea. However I just want to check are you doing a line each for: Conservative, Labour, Lib Dem, UKIP and Others? 5Lines, just to be sure? Also for the UKIP data have you seperated it from "Others" for before 2012? If you have, have you remembered to subtract the UKIP figure from the "others" figure? <font color="#8000FF">Nick <font color="#8000FF"> ' 00:43, 9 December 2012 (UTC)


 * Discussion moved to Talk:Opinion polling for the next United Kingdom general election. Spa-Franks (talk) 18:36, 9 December 2012 (UTC)

Help resolving an issue with UK Euro Elections 2009
We have a bit of a dispute on this page and I think you might be able to help :-) We basically have aproblem with who to include in hnfo box and it seems obvious to everyone apart from one person. Please do not feel you have to read the whole thing, there's a lot there but it would be fantastic if you could look at the bottom 2 sections of the talk page (the one with links and the one with outside opinions) and let us know what your view is by putting a * before your comment. The argument basically goes that The BNP and The Green Party of England and Wales should not be included in the info box because past precedents set state that this is too low. European Parliament elections tend to have a 'cliff edge effect' whereby we deem a gap between 10 and 3 as significant or 10 and 2. In this case the diference i between 11 and 2, there seems to be no difference from 15years ago any yet someone is trying to change the rules!Oh well that's sometimes how a wikidebate goes! Anyways would really appreciate your help and once again...keep up the good work :-)<font color="#8000FF">Nick <font color="#8000FF"> ' 01:12, 9 December 2012 (UTC)