User talk:Brixtonboy

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BRD[edit]

BRD = Bold Revert Discuss

Bold - make a change Revert - someone reverts your change Discuss - discuss the proposed change to achieve a consensus for change.

Simply reverting will result in an edit war. Justin talk 22:42, 13 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

And did those feet etc[edit]

I have to admit to letting you slug it out. OK I will have a go. JMcC (talk) 08:06, 16 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

November 2011[edit]

Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute to the encyclopedia, but when you add or change content, as you did to the article Union Flag, please cite a reliable source for your addition. This helps maintain our policy of verifiability. See Wikipedia:Citing sources for how to cite sources, and the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Logical Cowboy (talk) 04:21, 8 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your comments. Without being facetious, I would be interested to know what is the protocol for content change that has no original source but has become through centuries of use, in the words of the judge becomes, "What the man on the Clapham Omnibus would find reasonable". Things such as "people have two hands". The People in England speak English. In the case of the name Union Jack/Union Flag, it seems hard to reconcile that everyone outside vexillological circles call it the Union Jack. It is a pendant's heaven. So much of British history is laid down through convention not through statute. It is a particularly American world view that things despite being adopted en masse by the population, are not real unless some body, official or not, gives it its stamp. Britain still has an unwritten constitution, unlike America where everything down to a state bird is officially sanctioned by Acts of State Congress. You obviously trust your govt more than we do ours. LOL.

I note that others have taken up my ideas and have included my line of thought so I shall not undo your deletion of my entry. But thank you for your thoughts.

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April 2012[edit]

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