Talk:Bodmin Moor

Latest comment: 4 years ago by 2A02:C7D:9214:1600:6D3A:E047:D523:4746 in topic Units of measurement

Settlements of Bodmin Moor

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The Dartmoor article has a list of settlements template..should the Bodmin Moor page have one too?Teapotgeorge (talk) 21:34, 20 July 2008 (UTC)Reply

Brown Willy

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Brown Willy is 420 metres above sea level (1377 feet), as per the Ordnance Survey Explorer 9 1994 Revision. Donkfest1 (talk) 15:54, 26 August 2008 (UTC)Reply

Pictures

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Two of the pictures of Brown Willy appear to be of Rough TorDonkfest1 (talk) 17:14, 19 February 2010 (UTC)Reply

I don't know that part of Bodmin, so can't comment on the accuracy of the pics, but Interestingly both the brown willy and king arthur pics had incorrect coordinates (pointing to Glossop) which I have now removed. If the coords are wrong then it is feasible that the topic could be wrong. Any experts / locals care to comment? --Simple Bob (talk) 17:32, 19 February 2010 (UTC)Reply

Hmm.

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Looking at the info box for Dartmoor, could that one work here too? --Frank Fontaine (talk) 16:31, 6 March 2010 (UTC)Reply

Could do - the article certainly would look better with an infobox. Go for it! DuncanHill (talk) 18:38, 7 March 2010 (UTC)Reply

Country

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Ok, this has gone on long enough. Consensus has agreed that the term Cornwall, England, United Kingdom is the best way to describe a location in Cornwall. Now if anyone has any objections, please feel free to say, but otherwise do not continue to change the wording. Bainseyy (talk) 11:40, 7 March 2010 (UTC)Bainseyy (talk) 11:37, 7 March 2010 (UTC)Reply

When and where did you arrive at this consensus? TeapotgeorgeTalk 11:43, 7 March 2010 (UTC)Reply
It has been discussed on other articles (Cornwall, Truro, to name just two), obviously a few years ago though, so you will have to go quite far back on the history to find it. Bainseyy (talk) 13:25, 7 March 2010 (UTC)Reply
So why do you revert to simply "Cornwall, England" at Brown Willy, when you know full well that someone was blocked for doing exactly that? Why didn't you employ this consensus? Anyway, I don't think anyone believes that the hopelessly clunky "Cornwall, England, UK" version is the best way to describe it - it's the just the only thing English nationalists will accept without endless edit warring. Bretonbanquet (talk) 14:39, 7 March 2010 (UTC)Reply
Oops, I must have done that by mistake. I didn't realise it would revert to simply Cornwall, England. Bainseyy (talk) 18:34, 7 March 2010 (UTC)Reply
  • "Cornwall, England, United Kingdom" manages to irk both the English nationalists and the Cornish nationalists equally, without unduly offending the rest of the world. There's a link to some of the previous discussions from the Cornwall Wiki-project. The formulation is fairly stable, but every 6 months or so either an English nationalist or a Cornish nationalist turns up and starts unilaterally imposing their own preferred wording. DuncanHill (talk) 15:05, 7 March 2010 (UTC)Reply
  • I'll add - there is a big Cornwall Wikiproject box at the head of this page. In the drop down box within it is a link to a guideline page addressing the issue. I do sometimes wonder if there is any point continuing to maintain the project when clearly none of you can be bothered to actually take a look at it or the helpful links to rpevious discussions that it provides. I'd have thought you'd all have better things to do with your time and bandwidth than to edit-war over such a small thing. DuncanHill (talk) 15:10, 7 March 2010 (UTC)Reply
I don't think this spat counts as an edit war, particularly. As you know, originally we were all simply reverting the edits of the blocked editor, the IP who edited solely in an inflammatory fashion. Given that we now all know about this consensus, we should concentrate on applying it uniformly, rather than on selected articles, which is what has arisen here. Bretonbanquet (talk) 15:17, 7 March 2010 (UTC)Reply
Well Bretonbanquet, you appeared to be changing the wording yourself. Do you have any reason to why? Bainseyy (talk) 19:11, 7 March 2010 (UTC)Reply
Are you talking about before I knew about this consensus that was reached elsewhere? There's your explanation. What's yours for editing against consensus at Brown Willy when you already knew about that consensus and were enforcing it here at Bodmin Moor? Bretonbanquet (talk) 19:25, 7 March 2010 (UTC)Reply
OK, I've just seen your explanation above. Bretonbanquet (talk) 19:27, 7 March 2010 (UTC)Reply

Alright, I think this has been resolved. In case any more disruptive editors come and change it again, I suggest this text be left here to prevent future edit-warring. Bainseyy (talk) 21:09, 7 March 2010 (UTC)Reply

Re: Country

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Simple English Wikipedia being outside the project's scope is not bound by the consensus. Additional Cornwall-related content there would be welcome, e.g. more villages or civil parishes articles.--Felix Folio Secundus (talk) 09:25, 10 September 2011 (UTC)Reply

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Units of measurement

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In this country, we use miles and feet to measure distance and height. At most, we should provide a metric equivalent in brackets afterwards, for the convenience of readers abroad who may be more used to that system. But the metric measurement should never be given first, and never alone, as happens at least once on this page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:C7D:9214:1600:6D3A:E047:D523:4746 (talk) 10:52, 9 July 2020 (UTC)Reply