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Give It Up or Turnit a Loose

Re: "It first appeared as an instrumental on the album Ain't It Funky, with Brown recording additional vocals for the single release." The infobox for Ain't It Funky says the album was released in 1970, while the "Give It Up or Turnit a Loose" single was released at the beginning of 1969, so shouldn't the preceding statement be fixed?

Interesting info about the song, but it would help if you can provide a source. InnocuousPseudonym (talk) 02:58, 14 May 2015 (UTC)

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List of settlements in Derbyshire by population

This list is supposed to be kept brief-ish by only including places with a population of 5,000 or more - for a list of all the places we have List of places in Derbyshire, so the by population article only shows the most populated places. Also, it should only include settlements, not civil parishes like "Chinley, Buxworth and Brownside". It looks like you're getting a bit too carried away with this article... would you mind taking it back to 5,000+? Rcsprinter₁₂₃ (gossip) 19:34, 13 February 2017 (UTC)

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Sources for green belt

Thanks for your edits to Somerset & Geography of Somerset about the Avon Green Belt but I noticed you did not ciyte any sources for your additions. Could you add some references which support the claims made.?— Rod ^talk 21:07, 12 January 2018 (UTC)

Those have been added. Regards --The Equalizer (talk) 21:48, 12 January 2018 (UTC)

One point that I've noted in the Somerset section... Green belt is a (widely misunderstood) planning policy, relating to the disposition of human settlements. It should be discussed under "human geography", not "physical geography", which relates to non-human elements such as hills, rivers, etc. I haven't checked where you've added similar sections, but this should be corrected and changed if necessary. Ghmyrtle (talk) 22:50, 12 January 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for the advice. I've been adding the sections to counties pages that contain a portion of belt, and going to add to the urban cores and maybe notable towns/villages in each belt area so that the articles aren't orphaned and it adds extra information to their pages and informs more people, especially with many interested in their environs nowadays - luckily most of the counties added to thus far aren't as well written as the Somerset page (explains why they aren't usually featured, or good articles), either having just a general Geography section, or none at all (I've kick started such a section in those instances so I can insert the belt sub-section). Any pages with divided Geography sections I will add to accordingly. Regards --The Equalizer (talk) 13:00, 13 January 2018 (UTC)

Regarding this edit... You have added the sentence "The belt links two Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty, Mendip Hills to the south and the Cotswolds to the east, extending the land protections along the Severn Valley, Vale of Berkeley, and the Severn Estuary up to the Bristol Channel." That is grossly misleading, so I will change it. The reason is that green belt is not - and I can't emphasise this enough - a policy of environmental protection in the same sense as an AONB. It is a policy for controlling development, and that is by no means the same thing. There are many different types of "land protection" as you call it - it's not a recognised term used in planning circles - and they should not be combined in such a way that it looks as though they supplement each other. Apples and pears come to mind. (Full disclosure - in a previous life I was a planning officer with specific responsibilities for the Avon Green Belt.) And - minor point - the green belt is never referred to, even in shorthand, as "the belt". Ghmyrtle (talk) 14:13, 13 January 2018 (UTC)

Copyright problem on York Green Belt

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February 2018

Please stop adding unsourced content, as you did to Bradford on Avon. This contravenes Wikipedia's policy on verifiability. If you continue to do so, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Charles (talk) 14:18, 14 February 2018 (UTC)

Wakefield

You twice added, without a rationale, a Green Belt section to the Wakefield article. I don't think it is appropriate as it mostly mentions areas outside the settlement. I have moved it to the City of Wakefield article which is about the wider area and where it might be more useful. J3Mrs (talk) 10:24, 5 April 2018 (UTC)

The smallest city explained

Good editing on St Davids. Diolch. Gareth Griffith‑Jones ^{The Welsh Buzzard} 16:57, 8 September 2018 (UTC)'

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England 2019 Local Government changes - maps

Hi, I notice that you've been updating maps of England to take account of the 2019 local government changes? This is useful work and needs to be done, but I note that you've been replacing vector images (SVGs) with bitmaps (JPGs) or editing bitmaps directly (my map). This is bad practice for maps and is discouraged by WP:POLICY. In the case of SVGs this is because you lose scalability (and so lower quality) and can increase filesize. In the case of bitmaps the map on WP is usually not the original source file. That may be either be vector based or much higher resolution (this is the case with my map). In all cases the changes are best made to the source files - in the case of SVGs these are on WP so you can make the changes yourself if you know how. For bitmaps it is best to notify the original creator to make the changes - as someone did for my map which I was in the process of updating when you uploaded your version. I don't want to discourage you from this work, but editing maps is not quite the same as editing text so needs to be handled differently. I can point you in the direction of software to edit SVGs if you wish. XrysD ^TALK 10:49, 7 April 2019 (UTC)

Noted. My prior process was corrupting SVGs so was putting up other formats until I could work it out. Your message made me look again at this, and am getting successful attempts with Inkscape, and testing the finished files using the Wiki SVG checker. Will revisit some of those prior uploads with all-new hi-res SVG ones. Regards, The Equalizer (talk) 00:01, 9 April 2019 (UTC)

Population figures - thank you.

Thank you for your patient response to my good faith edits. NOMIS has broken a facility that previously worked, which offered the KS for the true overall BUA, not just the BUASD that happens to have the same name. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 21:38, 16 July 2019 (UTC)

No problem. As you state, the full BUA details should be available on that Nomis report page, but I have just tried a database inquiry for Leicester and the correct population figures for BUAs and BUASDs are being returned - so hopefully just a functionality issue which will be fixed as you've highlighted it. If you need any further details just let me know.

Regards, --The Equalizer (talk) 23:15, 16 July 2019 (UTC)

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Ways to improve Lindhurst, Nottinghamshire

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Nottinghamshire places

Thankyou for you're work on Nottinghamshire parishes and settlements, I have drafted Draft:Hodsock for you. Crouch, Swale (talk) 18:26, 12 November 2020 (UTC)

Thank you, most appreciated. One of the few standalone places left to complete. Regards, The Equalizer (talk) 01:31, 13 November 2020 (UTC)

I know you're working on Rampton and Woodbeck but when you've finished I have drafted Draft:Kings Clipstone, Nottinghamshire and Draft:Headon cum Upton for you. Crouch, Swale (talk) 22:34, 27 November 2020 (UTC)

And Draft:Clumber and Hardwick and Draft:Marnham, Bassetlaw, thankyou for all you're hard work, only 2 left after these and Norton and Cuckney. Crouch, Swale (talk) 22:57, 30 November 2020 (UTC)

And Draft:South Wheatley, Bassetlaw. Crouch, Swale (talk) 22:31, 24 December 2020 (UTC)

And Draft:Clarborough and Welham, Nottinghamshire and Draft:North and South Wheatley, Nottinghamshire which seems about all. Crouch, Swale (talk) 22:52, 26 December 2020 (UTC)

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New articles

Thankyou for creating new articles such as Clifton and Compton, Derbyshire still has quite a few missing, see User:Crouch, Swale/Missing parishes (1)#Derbyshire, you can remove them from this list upon creation. Can I make a suggestion that since Clifton, Derbyshire exists as a separate article that you don't add too much information about the village in the parish article otherwise it might be seen as a content fork and people may otherwise suggest merging the settlement to the parish. Crouch, Swale (talk) 18:01, 31 August 2021 (UTC)

If you are going to create all the Derbyshire parishes please sign you're name on the section for "Derbyshire", thanks. Crouch, Swale (talk) 17:09, 28 October 2021 (UTC)

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Hi The Equalizer, I have set your account as a Wikipedia:Pending Changes Reviewer I don't know if you currently have any articles under pending changes on your watchlist, but if you do I think you are more than ready to approve or reject newbie edits. ϢereSpielChequers 19:05, 28 September 2023 (UTC)

Hi Were - thank you for the recognition and additional privileges. Regs, The Equalizer (talk) 20:49, 28 September 2023 (UTC)

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2021 census link

Hallo, the link you added here for the 2021 population of Darlton doesn't seem to work: could you check what's happened? Thanks. PamD 10:57, 24 March 2024 (UTC)

Nomis haven't released the lower level data on their webpages as yet. The template used for the ref should begin to work once this happens, but also see the discussion at Template talk:NOMIS2011#NOMIS 2001 search page. Regards, The Equalizer (talk) 11:15, 24 March 2024 (UTC)

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I'm marking as reviewed. Article seem week on cites supporting the larger statements made about him. Suggest adding some. Happy editing!

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