User talk:Blairtummock

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Baillieston[edit]

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thanks[edit]

thank you - that's very kind of you. well fancy that, because i am going to write about recent developments in the town among other things i plan to do - so don't be worried about it. it's all just time and effort and i do try to take care so i must give a thanks to you for sorting out my sentencing. areas of Dunfermline was removed though because i felt it was a waste of space and was something that i would have done a year ago with obessive shop references which i have learnt is not appropriate on wikipedia.Kilnburn (talk) 19:50, 4 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

just to keep you up to date, i should get round to adding a link to Duloch in the new modern Dunfermline sub-section in the next couple of days. Kilnburn (talk) 00:14, 9 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

a link has been made onto the Duloch page via the areas of Dunfermline at the bottom of the article. the sub-section that i was going to do, never occured and my attempts to create a wikitable proved to be a bit of a struggle, even though it is not too bad. the spaces between the areas was the problem and if you care to look or have the time, can you please fix. thank you. Kilnburn (talk) 00:30, 15 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at List of places in Glasgow. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted or removed. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Phil Bridger (talk) 09:42, 22 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, as you did at User talk:Phil Bridger, you may be blocked from editing. Phil Bridger (talk) 09:45, 22 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

This is your last warning; the next time you vandalize Wikipedia, as you did at Provanhall, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. Phil Bridger (talk) 09:47, 22 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

June 2011[edit]

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Provanhall. Users are expected to collaborate with others and avoid editing disruptively.

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{{unblock|reason= I am only interested in facts and have positively contributed in all my edits. The user Phil Bridger has jumped on assumptions, which is against wiki guidelines, he just wants to construct their pretty little narrative about the world, regardless of whether or not it has any bearing on reality. If one looks here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Provanhall) Phil Bridger keeps using the term 'provenhall' - the article I want removed/edited is Provanhall. He obviously does not know what he is talking about and has not given me a chance. Provanhall is a neighbourhood of Easterhouse, Glasgow. Easterhouse is a district of Glasgow. Part of a district cannot be a district of the larger entity. It is not a distinct community and is a council estate with houses built from the 1950's onwards, as part of the Easterhouse scheme. The primary school is part of Glasgow's primary schools system. The Provan Hall is near the housing estate - actually the 1950s houses are built on the former estate, but so is most of Easterhouse as per the map I added to the Eaterhouse article. There are other neighbourhoods (not officially recognized - Provanhall, Blairtummock, Moriehall, South Rogerfield, Commonhead, Easthall and Bishops Loch. These are not distinct entities and have no identity outwith the Easterhouse identity). Phil Bridger is the real disruptive user by blocking my attempts to remove the article as being not worthy of having a WIKI page. I am fine to edit it if one must keep it. The place MUST be removed form the areas of Glasgow list as it is 100% not a district of the city. Remember that everything has to be verifiable and this is not a verifiable district}}

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December 2012[edit]

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Please do not add commentary or your own personal analysis to Wikipedia articles, as you did to Berwick-upon-Tweed. Doing so violates Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy and breaches the formal tone expected in an encyclopedia. Thank you. Mutt Lunker (talk) 17:14, 31 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

December 2013[edit]

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Dunfermline High School‎[edit]

Hi, I noticed that you have added Dunfermline High School‎ to the list of oldest schools. I've put a request on talk: Dunfermline High School‎ for citations and more information. The list covers extant schools, a lengthy gap would mean that the later date needs to be used, still pretty early though. I'm not going to query its inclusion for the moment, let's see what comes of the of the request first. If you have sources or can improve the main article, please do so! Regards, Martin of Sheffield (talk) 12:05, 20 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Blairtummock. Following the above there was a discussion on the talk page of the school. It appears that the 1468 date is the more reliable for the extant school. On another, minor, point: last time I looked Dunfermline was in Scotland, not England! Regards, Martin of Sheffield (talk) 10:14, 4 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Improvements needed at Black stane[edit]

I approved your draft, but it still needs some work. Most prominently, your introduction is very vague. Your first couple sentences (introduction) should give a full who-what-why-when-where. You currently cover the who and vaguely the what, but you don't make clear right at the start what the timeline of this practice is (and the word "ancient" is kind of confusing there). Also, the article fails to explicitly note what the "stane" literally is; it's an actual stone one sits or stands on during the event, yes? That could be made clearer right in the introduction. Note too you can check GoogleBooks to find sources that help to explain this tradition. MatthewVanitas (talk) 18:52, 13 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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