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Welsh

I have put the Wales article forward for GA status. It just needs tweaking, and maybe a heavy-handed swipe from outside to get it in place. I am writing to those who are constant contributors and defenders of Wales and Welsh articles, to not scream at me for doing this, but to help get the article through. If we fail, we fail, there is nothing wrong with that; but Wales should be a Good Article at least and if it takes good intentioned amateurs to reach that then so be it. FruitMonkey (talk) 01:27, 30 August 2010 (UTC)

The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : LIV (August 2010)

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Link repair

Hi Welsh, I've seen you pop up in my watchlist a few times doing link repair. Thanks for the good work! However, I see that decently often you are fixing links by removing accents from the links. (e.g. [1]) Most of the time (in my estimation) removal of these accents results in a less correct name. I see sometimes you redirect rather than removing accents, which seems like a better solution. (Best of all might be to move the target page to include accents as appropriate.) Calliopejen1 (talk) 12:23, 30 September 2010 (UTC)

Thanks, I understand your point. I have taken the stance that the exisitng article is more likely to be a definitive spelling than the broken link. This, of course, may not be true. However, without extensive external research I cannot determine which is correct. At least this method fixes the redlink, allowing someone else to fix the exact diacritic spelling if they know better. I will bear your point in mind, and look more closely whether I should rename the exisitng article where it's clear which spelling is correct. welsh (talk) 18:21, 30 September 2010 (UTC)