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Your request for assistance

"I'm looking to try and link the 40 odd pages now part of to the rest of UK law and so from there to the Law wiki project. Apart for a few existing articles there's not much about the subject - how do I get some more people involved? This is the first thing I've done for WIkipedia and I could really do with someoone who's got some experience to have a look at what I've written and advise on what articles might be able to merged - what should stay separated for future expansion etc.etc. Many thanks"

Probably the best way to get attention for this is to post it on the Village Pump in the appropriate category. A lot of people check the Village Pump routinely for interesting new projects and ideas, and this is almost certainly the best way to publicize your interest. If you can get a few people together, you might also want to start a WikiProject.

If there's anything else I can do to help, please let me know. Thanks for editing Misplaced Pages! Kelly Martin (talk) 14:08, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

Helpme - session data

I keep getting the following message when I try and save edits:- "Sorry! We could not process your edit due to a loss of session data. Please try again. If it still doesn't work, try logging out and logging back in." Logging in and out doesn't seem to help. Also, sometimes when clicking 'edit this page', the text that is displayed, is that of a previous edit. Can you help?

First problem: (I get this sometimes too) Try clearing your browser's cache: Mozilla/Safari/Konqueror: hold down Shift while clicking Reload (or press Ctrl-Shift-R), IE: press Ctrl-F5, Opera: press F5.

Second problem: seeing the previous version could be a server sync problem I have heard others complain about recently, but make sure that in Special:Preferences, in the Misc section that "Disable page caching" is ticked.--Commander Keane 23:11, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

United Kingdom Planning Law

Regarding your request;
I'll certainly take a look at these articles - I don't know too much about the subject, but I can certainly do some proof reading etc.
I can suggest one thing - which you might find useful on talk pages, for example - if you want to link to a category on a page, (and avoid including the page in that category), write this:
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and you'll get this:
Category:United Kingdom Planning Law
Hope that's useful! --David Edgar 11:18, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

Ah! yes - many thanks - been wondering about that one. --Mcginnly 12:05, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

Hi, thanks for the comment you left. I'm certainly happy to help where I can. I'm not actually a qualified town planner myself, so I'm no expert on the intricacies of the system, but I have a reasonable basic overview which I've gleaned from working in the industry. I suspect many of the articles will probably remain quite dry and summary-like - there's only so many ways you can sex up town planning with nice photos, etc. ;) DWaterson 17:48, 5 April 2006 (UTC)