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Your revert / undo of my edit to Lom

Latest comment: 4 days ago3 comments2 people in discussion

You reverted my edit to Lom_(Norway) and your provided reasoning makes no sense. The location is 50 km, and an hour away, outside of Lom and nobody who is in Lom would think of that location as a sleeping place for Lom or even the area around Lom. Its even 1400 m higher in elevation than Lom. Please revert your edit.

There are other sleeping places in Lom right in town. This is not a situation where to find a sleeping place for a "town", one has to travel miles and miles to get to one. I fail to see why Sognefjellshytta would be associated with Lom as a sleeping place. -Marvin The Paranoid (talk) 18:24, 5 June 2025 (UTC)Reply

No, I'm not reverting my edit. It's still within the official boundaries of Lom and the closest accommodation to get to two of the churches there. Sleep options aren't strictly confined to being within the town either, and sometimes we do list rural accommodation to the nearest city because there isn't anywhere else to list it. 50 km is not a lot for somewhere as remote as Lom. //shb (t | c | m) 00:10, 6 June 2025 (UTC)Reply

I see that you have put it under a "Nearby" section. This is a great compromise. Thank you! Marvin The Paranoid (talk) 17:01, 15 June 2025 (UTC)Reply

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A quarterly update from the Growth team on our work to improve the new editor experience.

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Community Configuration Enhancements

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