Geonotices are known for being... temperamental. The MediaWiki page is very fragile and a single character out of place can break it, and obviously the database is imperfect. They work pretty well, but they're not 100% reliable, so cases like this aren't unheard of.

Harry Mitchell

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From: Gordon Joly <gordon.joly@pobox.com>
To: UK Wikimedia mailing list <wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Monday, 15 October 2012, 15:43
Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Geonotices.

Yes, most kludges need that level of TLC.

Gordo

On 15/10/12 15:23, Richard Symonds wrote:

Sometimes all it needs is a reboot and a good hard kick...

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On 15 October 2012 14:57, Gordon Joly <gordon.joly@pobox.com> wrote:

Fixed. I restarted my BT equipment, got a brand new IP address, and it works...

Huzzah!

Gordo

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