You reverted an edit of mine recently. I accept that my edit summary might have been open to an incorrect interpretation - there is currently a discussion on my Talk page if you would like to join it. In a nutshell, references for the Uniform Penny Post state that it applied to either Britain or the United Kingdom (hence the two references I provided). It does not seem to have applied to Crown Dependencies such as the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man, based on their absence from the books on the subject. Thank you. --Bardcom (talk) 18:05, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
The Proposal and Expected Benefits Hill (1838: 36) called for “the postage on all letters received in a post-town, and delivered in the same, or any other post-town in the British Isles, shall be at the uniform rate of one penny per half ounce.” There was no specific timetable for this change or a plan for implementation. The Penny Post was intended to have three primary benefits: 1. reduce the cost of postage to the benefit of business and the working class a. business would benefit through the ability to access a larger market through low cost direct mailings of advertisements, catalogues etc. b. the working class would benefit both from their personal use of mail and the increase in the availability of educational materials; 2. increase the total volume of mail flowing throughout the UK resulting in better delivery schedules; 3. increase the revenues to the State based on the increase in volume of mail.
Please refrain from undoing other people's edits repeatedly. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Note that the three-revert rule prohibits making more than three reversions in a content dispute within a 24 hour period. Additionally, users who perform a large number of reversions in content disputes may be blocked for edit warring, even if they do not technically violate the three-revert rule. Rather than reverting, discuss disputed changes on the talk page. The revision you want is not going to be implemented by edit warring. Thank you.
Furthermore, may I bring to your attention that I am an administrator. So is User:Nev1 and User:Ddstretch. I request respectfully that you do not undo my edits - they are based on real world evidence, and yours are not. I have several years worth of editing experience and a deep knowledge of this area of work (i.e. British administrative geography). If you continue to force your preferences upon Wikipedia, I will take action to block you and/or lock out the articles in question. --Jza84 | Talk 21:39, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
Why, as Manchester had already been incorporated as a borough in 1838 and had received the title of City in 1853, did this [charter of incorporation] ceremony take place? By the Local Government Act of 1972, which effected nationally an almost complete reorganisation of the structure of local government, Manchester was due to lose not only its title of City but also its status as a borough. As however, the Act was not due to become fully operative until 1 April 1974, on which day the Greater Manchester Metropolitan County became a reality, the opportunity was given under a special section of the Act for the Manchester City Council to petition the Queen, as indeed other Councils similarly place were entitled to do.
— Frangopulo, (1977), Tradition in Action pp. 134-135
Look, I am still looking over this situation with you an the UK cities thing, and its spread across many talk pages, so it has taken me some time to put it all together. Let me put this as simply as possible. You must stop edit warring about these things. The buloney about use of the word "THE" in the various articles seems well decided among people who are not you. If there is any group conspiracy against you it is only because you created it. There is no great effort to oust you personally. What I still see is a bunch of editors who all agree that your particular version of the article isn't correct. You seem to think that every editor who disagrees with you must somehow be part of a grand conspiracy. They aren't. They just think you are wrong on this issue. Please, I urge you to stop reverting these articles. If you continue, you may be blocked for being disruptive. --Jayron32.talk.contribs 23:11, 19 April 2009 (UTC)
This is the only warning you will receive for your disruptive comments.
The next time you make a personal attack as you did at User talk:Jayron32, you will be blocked for disruption. Comment on content, not on other contributors or people. ⋙–Berean–Hunter—► ((⊕)) 23:31, 19 April 2009 (UTC)