User talk:John/Archive 2007

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Hi, could you upload your image to wikimedia commons please? I would like to use it on another language wikipedia Zz99 12:55, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thanks for the comment you just left on my talk page. I feel a little shouted down at the moment but will keep going! --Jim (Talk) 18:45, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

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A Song of Stone

Ah, now I know where the editing conflict came from -- lost my connection, thought article got scrambled somehow. Sorry! Pete Tillman 05:58, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Re: Usenet link-- Did you have a look at the discussion? An unusually informative one, I thought, worthy of an exception to the "Links normally to be avoided" at WP:EL. Cheers, Pete Tillman 22:46, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Hi Pete. Yes, it looked a good discussion, but I remain unconvinced it adds verifiably to the article. --Guinnog 08:21, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

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Thank you

...for the barnstar! I didn't set out solely to edit Scottish football articles, it just seems to be one of the few areas where I have anything to add. The scale and scope of Wikipedia never ceases to impress me. Caledonian Place 09:10, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

recent edits to John Steinbeck by 68.9.235.63

Have you checked the edits made to the Steinbeck article by 68.9.235.63 on January 1? The following material was removed:

He fathered two sons with his second wife Gwyndolyn Steinbeck (nee Conger). Thomas Myles Steinbeck was born in 1944 and their second son, John Steinbeck IV was born in 1946. The marriage ended soon after their second son's birth.

In 1950, he married Elaine Scott, the ex-wife of actor Zachary Scott. He remained with her until his death.

I don't have enough knowledge of Steinbeck to revert any but obvious vandalism and now a further vandal edit has been reverted leaving the removal of the above material in danger of becooming a fait accompli. JFPerry 15:09, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

New to Wikipedia

After your "warnings" I tried to get in touch with you and asked you for {help} but you never replied. I have worked for 13 months with some people to who supported my investigation, and I thought that the facts that I brought to light are important for this wonderful site. Through Wikipedia anybody can see what is happening in terms of Marilyn Monroe, and the fraud that is happening every day. You seem to pursue me for whatever reason. Dunno really why, but I told you that I have no clue how to do things correctly, as I am not as perfect in terms of this computer language (editing etc) but I would appreciate if you would help, instead of requesting to have me kicked out. It seems like very political and everybody is important. But can't you just see what I have found out? Remember David against Goliath? That is what happened in this case, Guinnog. At least I signed in and have a working signature. I just need some help here. Is that so hard for you to understand? Please think about this, too. I really would appreciate it. I don't know any Wikipedia specialist in my circle of friends! Mmmovie 06:21, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

Well, this is a better way to communicate, so well done. I wish I could help you, but as I tried to explain before, this is an encyclopedia we are writing. It is not a place for a campaign of the sort you appear to be waging. Can I suggest you read up on some of our policies (WP:NOR, WP:V and WP:NPOV would be a good start), and then you need not feel so clueless. I am sorry if you feel I am pursuing you; I assure you I am only acting to protect the integrity of the article against your repeated addition of unverified information. When you are ready, and really feel you understand our policies, you may try again in the article talk page. Meanwhile you can start on gathering verifiable references for the changes you want to make. Best of luck, --Guinnog 06:28, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

Can you please tell me how you came up with the claim that I violated the copyrights in the "Marilyn Monroe--the exhbit" site, when the info and article was written by me. You also deleted ALL the information that I added to the Marilyn Monroe site. I corrected many false info on that site and you just erased the entire site and put your verion back in. Please remember that I have studied the subject and topic Marilyn Monroe for many years and that I am a guest lecturer at USC in LA. Mmmovie 19:42, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

Glasgow Subway

Re: Great edits. Keep up the good work please.

I don't know if that was sarcastic or not; I was attempting to update the page to reflect the fact that the Subway is now policed by the British Transport Police, but for some reason inserting the reference resulted in the rest of the page below the paragraph in question disappearing. The subsequent edits were rv's to undo the damage. The page has a method of referencing I've not encountered before. The reference in question is 'Police for Glasgow Subway', The Times, 3 January 2006. I'd be grateful if you could insert that, if you know how. Best, 86.0.203.120 19:33, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply. Sorry, it's just a bit difficult to read the tone here sometimes, and since I'd just buggered up the page in question... Thanks, and best regards 86.0.203.120 22:01, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

haha

these live journal emos are calling you a douche! rofl [1] —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.85.201.250 (talk • contribs)

Thanks for sharing this month-old trash with me. Last time I looked the article was still deleted. I'm not sure who that leaves looking more like a "douche", the people trying to put rubbish on our encyclopedia or you who think it was funny. --Guinnog 02:18, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

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Earhart

Even so, I'm sorry if my nudge to ponder seemed too harsh. Gwen Gale 03:04, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

edit conflicts

Heh heh. I'm done now, thanks :) Gwen Gale 06:03, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

The Novels WikiProject Newsletter: Issue VII - December 2006

The January 2007 issue of the Novels WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you.

This is an automated delivery by grafikbot 19:49, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

BTW - you just answered a question I had about vandal warnings on user pages... If a user/IP is blatant, is it okay to skip to bv rather than the test# progression and now I know (from your warning on User_talk:24.161.64.237). Katalaveno 02:33, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Mark Bellinghaus

See above. I've edited first part of article, but we've had an edit conflict!!! Please advise. Shall I overwrite article (first part) with my revision? Tyrenius 21:02, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Actually, don't worry. I've integrated my edit with yours. I'll have a look at the second part now. Tyrenius 21:22, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Done the second part. Please check through... Tyrenius 21:59, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

You did all the spade work - I just tidied up (the easy part). I think it now makes a coherent viable article. Tyrenius 22:21, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Wiki working as it should do, I believe, but, alas, all to often doesn't... Tyrenius 22:32, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

• Just want to say I think you did an excellent job improving this article! I'm not 100% sure he meets WP:BIO, but if the article is kept it will be because of you and your efforts. Ever considered joining WikiProject Wikify? We could certainly use your help. 23:36, 6 January 2007 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by RedRollerskate (talk • contribs)

Peculiar happening

I was looking at a vandalism warning at User talk:68.59.100.165 and just out of dumb curiosity I clicked on its link for sandbox and somehow ended up HERE. I can't reproduce this but it makes me wonder what's going on. I can't make the code display properly here so you'll need to edit this post, but the text at that page is:

<html> <head> <title>Sandbot Manual Run</title> </head> <body>

Getting a page to check if we're logged in on wikipedia:en
Getting page [[Wikipedia:Sandbox]]
Changing page [[Wikipedia:Sandbox]]

Redirecting back to page in 5 seconds...

[[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sandbox">Wikipedia:Sandbox</a>]]

<script language="javascript"> </script> </body> </html>

Looks innocent enough, but I still wonder how I got there and if it's possible to somehow hijack a wikilink. --CliffC 01:54, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

second opinion

I'd take your advice if I considered you to be neutral but your behaviour of ignoring Wobble's previous comments and focusing on the last in PAIN report suggests that you are not. Perhaps you might consider taking a similar course of action to what you have suggested. Please behave yourself. Lukas19 04:19, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

"The sort of out of date racialist thinking that normal people (that's 99% of us) think only nutters believe any more."

"There was a cite to "racial reality", a racist nazi site as far as I can see, with the reliability and accuracy one would expect from a bunch of neonazi thickos (who ever met an intelligent racist? Not me)." - (While commenting on neo nazis may be acceptable, he correlates it with racists after commenting on my "racist ideas" and after calling me "Ah well my little nordicist friend".)

1)Using someone's affiliations as a means of dismissing or discrediting their views — regardless of whether said affiliations are mainstream or extreme.

2)Profanity directed against another contributor.

3)Negative personal comments and "I'm better than you" attacks, such as "You have no life."

4)political epithets

"you just want to make claims that science supports your racist ideas" + Similar comments:

Accusatory comments such as "George is a troll", or "Laura is a bad editor" can be considered personal attacks if said repeatedly, in bad faith, or with sufficient venom. Lukas19 16:15, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the block

Thanks for the block on HZsanto. I would have gone with the classic "at user request" block reason myself. I always like that one :-) Sorry you got dragged into the whole Lukas19 thing, but I thought your latest response was excellent. If you want a really interesting one check out User:Sportsguru9999 but I'd strongly advise staying out of an active involvement as its a real time sink/house of mirrors. Great spectator sport though. Best as always, Gwernol 05:02, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Happy one year!

1 year of contribution

Hey, that's great. One year of contributions to Wikipedia - congratulations. In that time, you've made 24,265 edits to Wikipedia, including 16,334 to main space and 4,559 to user talk. It may be time to buy a new keyboard. Keep up the great work, Gwernol 13:44, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

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The Beatles article

It isn't a UK/US spelling thing. See User:Spellmaster for details. Thanks for caring about spelling. --Guinnog 02:57, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

Actually, spelling is a big issue for this article. See [2]. Because the article is about British subject matter, spellings should be British spellings. Steelbeard1 03:46, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

Yes indeed. However, as I said above, it isn't a US/Uk thing as "humourous" is incorrect worldwide. --Guinnog 03:51, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

The BBC spells it "humourous" as mentioned in [3] so my statement stands. Steelbeard1 03:56, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

Well done for finding a typo in the BBC site! However, Wikipedia, with all modern paper dictionaries spells it "humorous", so my point still stands. See [4], [5], [6], [7]. --Guinnog 04:01, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

Award

Hi Guinnog. Thank you so much for your kind gesture. As my first barnstar (other than a random act of kindness award), I'll genuinely treasure it!! Thanks again, Rockpocket 07:40, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

Fair Use Violations

In my opinion, the FIU hasn't been violated. Those album covers have been plastered on the Chili Pepper's page for well over a year and numerous admins have, undoubtedly, seen them. NSR77 03:34, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

As you wish. NSR77 01:19, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Not a novel

Yep I just noticed that, sorry! Tim! 22:29, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

Re: Queen (band) Edit

Hi! Thanks for leading me to that discussion. I'll look into it. DiscordantNote^Cntrbtns 13:34, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Expansion

Yes I shall expand Very Funny Ads now. Amlder20 00:00, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

May I declare that Expansion is complete and more shall be added soon. Amlder20 00:17, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

I like quick results so let me have your reply soon, of course I won't argue if you decide to delete it still. Amlder20 00:20, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

Agreed and there will be more to add, I'll do some research into it though, I do believe it's suitable for an encyclopedia and I believe that the website has good merits. Amlder20 00:29, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

Dates and numbers

If you behave in a manner more deserving of respect, you'll get it. We discussed this utterly thoroughly last year and resolved it to most people's satisfaction, and you've just ignored all of this, written up your own opinions, and then proceeded assuming some sort of mass consensus to implement your own preferences. I'm fed up with having to deal with this sort of arrogance. As for "not commenting at all", I would dearly like to never have to comment on this issue again, but since you've insisted on reopening it again, I have little choice. Rebecca 12:51, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

I'm sorry, but I'm not going to dance around the point with you. You are not trying to build consensus; you've ignored the *months* of the discussion, and the consensus outcome fo that discussion, asserted your own personal opinion, and insisted that that be the basis for an amendment that you assert must occur. We already have something that respects all preferences but those of the absolutists; yours would force your particular absolute into the guideline. This is the umpteeth time I've had someone noisily assert "I want my way regardless of everyone else! Now!"; why on earth would you expect me to be sympathetic when you're trying to run roughshod over my preferences? Rebecca 13:02, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

Please don't use semantics. You're taking a guideline which quite specifically neither advises delinking or linking, for the precise reason that there is no consensus to do either, and changing it to delinking in nearly all cases, which happens to be your personal preference. Your every post on that page belies an attitude of "my preference is better, and we must use this as a basis for an amendment which must occur". As to your final words, I have commented on the proposal, but I have also commented on the proposer insofar as his attitude affects this, and I do not apologise for that. Rebecca 13:22, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

Look, you're still missing the fundamental problem here. You are never going to get everyone involved in this dispute to agree on a strict proposal; people's preferences are simply too divergent. You simply cannot get people who believe that date links should be always delinked, that date links should be mostly linked, that date links should be linked about half the time, that date links should be mostly delinked, or that date links should be always delinked to settle on a mutually agreed guideline here. This is the precise reason that, after discussing the issue through, we settled on the current version, which allows plenty of discretion. The alternative, as with your version, is to take the preference of yourself and a couple of others and push that on everyone else under the guise of "improving the policy". This is why I'm so frustrated with this, and will be continue to be so long as you insist on pushing this line. I also resent your consistent patronising attitude on this issue, and your apparent assumption that I'd fall into line with you if I "just calmed down". Rebecca 13:39, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

Scotch whisky reversion

Please stop reverting my contribution. It is absolutely not inappropriate for me to fix a broken link in the article (www.maltmaniacs.com). You broke the link again in your haste and it now points to a wonderfully informative 404. Nor is it inappropriate for me to add a link to a site entirely devoted to tasting notes on malt whisky. Next time please better serve the wikipedia community by checking your changes before you commit them instead of hastily and bullishly reverting new contributions. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tannoy (talk • contribs)

Flag on Queen article

Hi, I noticed you reverted my removal of the England flag on the Queen (band) article. What purpose would you say it serves there? Why an England flag rather than a UK one? Thanks in advance --Guinnog 21:21, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

Hello, I have already commented on that matter at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style. I would also have to say that your comments at Talk:Queen (band) are not really productive, but I will go into detail why over there. - Cyrus XIII 21:31, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

Vandal User:24.105.136.83

These have now been reverted by me or by someone else, I have not issued him a warning because the Kearny, New Jersey one is particularly nasty and unfortunately sat there for a month. I am hoping you will warn with the proper admin words, not my experience dealing with such types so far. I think User:24.105.136.83 is also User:Famivir, who earlier today made a similar change to New York Law School. Thank you. --CliffC 02:22, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

My error, the Kearny NJ one (12 Decmber accusation of past plagiarism by a local publisher) was reverted almost instantly, sorry. Now I have reverted an innocent person (no one mentioned here), and so on, but all is now well in Kearny NJ. --CliffC 02:41, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

Me 262=

I did, nay? user:Moby_D Moby D 17:51, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

Flag of Northern Ireland

Hi, I agree with your moves on the Northern Ireland and Celtic FC pages with regards to the Northern Ireland Flag issue. I don't know if you've seen the edit war at Template:Precedence also about the use of the NI flag. Do you think that the flag should always be used to represent NI (where other nation flags are also included) as I do? Astrotrain 22:45, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

It doesn’t represent the people of Northern Ireland, it isn’t the legal flag of Northern Ireland and therefore shouldn’t be purported as such--Vintagekits 22:54, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

Yes, I know that is what you think Vintagekits. However, Wikipedia is not a legal document and there is a strong feeling that geographical articles like the NI one need to have a flag on them. As I've said, the subject has been discussed thoroughly in talk (most recently in November 2006 I think) and the consensus was to keep the flag, but with a disclaimer. You may both be interested in the policy discussion I am involved in at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style#Flag icons - manual of style entry? I believe there are far too many flags in Wikipedia, and this pointless argument is a good example of the sort of trouble they can cause. However, articles like Northern Ireland seem to need a flag and I accept that. It then follows that we need to choose a flag. For all the imperfections of the Ulster Banner, there isn't really a viable alternative. I hope that makes sense. --Guinnog 23:03, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

A more appropriate flag for Northern Ireland would be the standard Irish flag with a little slice in the upper right that looks like the Union Jack. Wahkeenah 02:56, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

Great idea. Next time you're over, you can suggest it. Erm, just don't start reading any long books before you do it! (Thanks for the comment, it made me smile. This comment does not constitute legal advice) --Guinnog 02:59, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

I might just do that. Nothing breaks the ice like getting both sides mad at you. :) Wahkeenah 03:04, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

Disregard of your warning to cease wp:point

Hi Guinnog,

I'm 172, an active editor of Wikipedia's articles on modern history and political economy since 2002. I believe this is the first our accounts have crossed paths on the site.

It has been brought to my attention that a user you blocked on 01:46, 28 December 2006 for "violation of wp:point" [8] has been continuing to disrupt Wikipedia, despite your warning a couple of weeks ago.

In a heavily trafficked article with the disclaimer "This is not a forum for general discussion about the article's subject," this user has been disrupting the work of "'right wing' editors," whom he/she calls a 'problem at hand.' [9] To make that point on the talk page, he/she has declared (1) "I will revert" the established version of the introduction [10]; and (2) plans for "large scale" reversions of the article. [11] To make that point in the article, the user has been flagging scores of sentences with unnecessary 'citation needed' tags. WGee, a brilliant young student who prolificially edits many articles that fall in my range of expertise, promptly explained to him/her why elementary facts do not require citations. [12] In response, this user accused WGee of vandalism, promoting WGee to direct him/her to 'WP:VANDAL and WP:AGF before accusing me of vandalism.' [13] His/her continued reversions forced WGee to explain yet again why elementary facts do not require citations: "The article's content is so broad and uncontroversial that everything can be contained in the general references at the bottom of the page or from the internally linked articles." [14] Still, the reversions continued, with the user declaring, "even the most basic facts require varifiability" [apparently a misspelling of verifiability]. [15]

If you have time to again enforce WP:POINT and offer this user further instructions on proper editing, I expect normal functioning on the article to resume, which other editors will greatly appreciate.

Happy New Year,

172 | Talk 02:40, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the extremely prompt reply! Best regards, 172 | Talk 04:25, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

You're very welcome. --Guinnog 04:28, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

User:Ohconfucius deletion proposals

User:Ohconfucius has nominated a large number of Scottish Railway stations for deletion. Many of these are being developed as part of WP:TIS. I have removed the {{prod}}. However reading the user page he may contest this. Thoughts? I suggest replies are consolidated at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Transport in Scotland. Stewart 20:18, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

Speedy speedy

Thank you very much, Guinnog, for that very fast speedy. I really appreciate it. :) Hope all is well. Cheers, Sarah 23:20, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

How Dare You

How dare you revert me contribution to the United Kingdom article in the See Also part. I added NATO to See Also and you have got rid of it. Why? Because you disagree with things I contribute? So you thought you would have a go trying to get back at me? Oh yeah it's not the first time apparently you've stalked other people undoing all their work trying to get back at them for disagreeing with you. Lay off my work and get a life. P.S. I'm notifying other Admins Lucy Locket 00:27, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

I didn't revert your change, I added it to the relevant part (defence) rather than the see also section. Why did you blank the message I sent you? --Guinnog 00:28, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Now you say I'm a 'sock' which I think means being someone else. Last time I looked I was me so I don't think so some how. Lucy Locket 00:34, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Me 262

This - http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Messerschmitt_Me_262&diff=prev&oldid=101519906 - was just a mistake, if you mean't redirect.Moby D 13:28, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

RE: Image:Underagedrinking.jpg

Hello. Yeah, the person in the picture is my mate Josh. You could try to contact him on his user page (which is User:Joshy89) about verifying his age in the photo, but he rarely edits Wikipedia, so I'm not sure if he'd get the message though. —KingIvan 04:45, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

Re: IP

Thanks for the heads up. Will just observe now. :) -Penwhale | Blast the Penwhale 14:41, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

Admin Help Request

Can I remove a 'blatant vandal' warning from a users talk page? User talk:62.253.219.178 has has one posted that does meet not the criteria for such as warning and the post was correct if 'untidy' Weggie 15:01, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

OK - Thanks for the quick response Weggie 15:11, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

United Airlines Flight 232

Thanks mate - keep up the good work yourself... Cheers, Ian Rose 15:41, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

Please Stop taking away the biographical information I added

I am Will Overstreet and the information on my page was corrected by me before you did your own editing of facts out of it. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Woverstr (talk • contribs) 16:10, 19 January 2007 (UTC).

RfA for FT2

Thank you for your helpful comments. I shall reply to FT2 and hopefully that will be an end of it.--Taxwoman 23:34, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

Trainspotting

Hi thanks for the feedback - I've replied to you on my talk page. All the best, Valenciano 01:49, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

Template:911ct

since you have an interest in this template as a contributor to it you may wish to comment on the nomination for its deletion Fiddle Faddle 15:25, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

Billy Warnock

You left a note for me that you had marked an article I was creating for deletion as it was not 'notable'. Leaving aside it was my grandfather (I consider him notable for that fact alone), he was brother to Jimmy Warnock and a fellow boxer of the period. Billy has an interesting boxing history, which I am currently researching at the moment. Your action, whilst understandable no doubt from your perspective, is very disheartening and damaging to what I am trying to achieve. Please withdraw it and give me a chance to finish it. Yours darryl 19:06, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

WP:BITE

Actually, it was inadvertent. I was still in "nail vandal" mode and meant to type 'rv' instead of 'rvv.' —Joseph/N328KF (Talk) 19:06, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

RfA thanks :)

Not quite sure where to start. Just plain thanks for many things, spoken and unspoken, in which you suggested a re-nom after my first RfA, and then helped me through the uncertainties of RfA when I was nominated a second time by Jossi. You were a tremendous and untiring help in moral support :)

I'd like to feel I will live up to everyone's better opinion, on the basis this'd be the best and most relevant "thank you" I can think of for your support.

If you feel like watchlisting User:FT2/Advice sought, I'd appreciate it :) it's my initial step to ensuring this new access is taken as responsibly as possible, during the next while, and to get advice as needed for specific situations while I'm new to this side of things. I don't have much fear of unbalanced usage, but I would like to regularly double check things which I'm thinking, over the next month or so, so that I learn from good views, and this is a good way to do it.

Otherwise, do keep in touch, happy editing in 2007, and once again - many thanks! :)

Category:Irish-Scots

Hi Guinnog. I notice you nominated this category for deletion, and while I voted Keep, I recognise there is a significant amount of unsubstantiated nonsense that has been added to it and needs weeded out. I see you have already removed a large number and would be willing to help. However, I also commented on the cfd that clear criterion is required as to who should or should not be considered Irish-Scots. My own opinion is that, as other dual-nationality categories such as Italian-Scots, German-Americans etc all categorise on the basis of parents birth, people who can be proven with refs to have Irish parentage, or maybe grand-parentage, should be included, rather than only people who consider themselves Irish-Scots. A full discussion may be needed but in the interim I thought I might ask your opinion, or if you know of a wikipedia precedent to follow. Caledonian Place 15:59, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

Willie Maley seems to fit the definition of an Irish-Scot according to the category. He was born in Ireland and moved to Scotland at an early age. Captkrob 16:21, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

3RR

I edited the artice and then reverted back with an explanatory note on the edit summary. This is pretty normal in my experience. Someone else then took up the baton. I think I'm being dealt with a bit heavy handed here. Jooler 23:49, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

Barnstar

PS, thanks for that :) /wangi 00:06, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Flags

Thanks! I'm hoping others think they're "simply fantastic" as well.

It's just funny that they overuse flags on an essay about not overusing flags. Just H 00:50, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

I think it's intentionally ironic. --Guinnog 10:42, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Dear Vegi

You do realise that Guinness uses a fish based fining agent called isinglass to brew the black stuff? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.90.198.171 (talk • contribs)

Oh yes. --Guinnog 10:42, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Mark Gallagher

The recent vandalism to his article has been "interesting" to say the least, no? - Dudesleeper 12:19, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Yes I wondered at that myself. Worth keeping an eye on some of these. See also Talk:Charles Kennedy. --Guinnog 12:22, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Ruh-roh. Regarding Gallagher, I just found this. - Dudesleeper 12:26, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, that's helpful. I've amended the article accordingly. --Guinnog 12:31, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

"Ruh-roh" is my impersonation of Scooby-Doo. A bad impersonation, apparently. - Dudesleeper 12:40, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Glasgow Subway: Subway Challenge

I have difficulty understanding why you removed the paragraph about the Subway Challenge. In your notes you refer to it as being "considered unencyclopedic", however this passage seems as relevant to the Glasgow Subway page as, for example, the Subcrawl or the Underground Song, which survived your edit.

In the mean time I have included the text in the discussion page and feel that it should be included in the main article.

I'd appreciate it if you could better explain your point of view.

Was 86.16.103.243

Now Ottb19 23:53, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Amelia Earhart article

This is the current introductory paragraph: "Amelia Mary Earhart (July 24, 1897 – missing as of July 2, 1937) was a noted American aviator who disappeared over the central Pacific Ocean during a circumnavigational flight attempt in 1937. She was an influential early female pilot and the first woman to receive the Distinguished Flying Cross."

I had submitted the following: "Amelia Mary Earhart' (July 24, 1897 – missing as of July 2, 1937) was a noted American aviator whose aviation career included many milestones. She became the first woman and second pilot to fly solo across the Atlantic, on the fifth anniversary of Charles Lindbergh's Atlantic crossing. She was an influential early female pilot who was instrumental in the formation of The Ninety-Nines, a women's pilots' organization. Among her many awards and achievements, Earhart was the first woman to receive the Distinguished Flying Cross. After setting numerous records, she disappeared over the central Pacific Ocean during a circumnavigational flight attempt in 1937, sparking a near-mythical public fascination with her life, career and ultimate disappearance." Word count: 116 words.

It was removed by another editor who indicated: 1. Introductory passage is too long 2. Citing wordy headers in other flawed articles doesn't solve the PoV and clarity issue here at all 3. It's far too long and sounds like a promotional blurb. When you've finished expanding the article body I plan on discussing the cheerleading PoV there too. If we need to start citing WP policy that's ok. Gwen Gale

Guinnog, I value your opinion, what do you think about my edit? FYI the Wikipedia articles on Thomas Jefferson was 250 words, Abraham Lincoln: 147 and the Wright Brothers: 199 words. Bzuk 12:40 22 January 2007 (UTC).

Compromise

I think one conflict that has become pretty glaring as of late is that many of the pro-CF editors don't want to see WP:FRINGE as a justification for edits. This to me is pretty distasteful. If you look at the stuff I'm trying to remove from the article, it's basically an unvetted laundry list published by a CF-proponent that is as neutrally considered as any propaganda which attempts to make weird sorts of appeals to authority. This is my beef, but I'd love to see a compromise. -_ScienceApologist 03:36, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Copied from Guinnog's user page

Tyrenius 22:11, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

Who do you work for?

Are you as unethical as you seem?—Preceding unsigned comment added by Tedblack (talk • contribs) 08:04, January 23, 2007

cold fusion

Thank you for your proposed help on cold fusion. I'm not sure how you can help. Maybe you can stress that SA must come with solid arguments, with quotes to back them up (and not with his own POV). Pcarbonn 15:27, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

86.136.155.233

Do you know this IP? A user at this IP has managed to revert several of your category removal edits. Captkrob 00:07, 24 January 2007 (UTC) (PS: Sorry to hear about your wikibreak)

Help with vandal?

This guy [16] seems to exist for the purpose of disruption and adding POV stuff. And I don't mean just the Big Mac. Wahkeenah 04:45, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

• Skip it, I found an on-line admin and he took care of it. Thank you! Wahkeenah 05:21, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

When you come back...

I started the Defend each Other essay. [[17]] Comments welcome. Georgewilliamherbert 00:42, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

In re Roman Catholic categories

Retrieved from John McAllion dispute:

You wrote: I want you to realise that the RC category is not for people who grew up in a Catholic family, but for practising Catholics. Does that make sense? --Guinnog 15:46, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

My response: Actually, Guinnog you are entirely inaccurate. Look at what the category called 'Northern Irish Roman Catholics' states right at the beginning:

The following persons from Northern Ireland are or were members of the Roman Catholic Church. Membership does not necessarily indicate personal Christian faith.

Cheers on your respite/vacation.

El chulito 18:49, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

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When you get back, regarding your comment at Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style#The_sporting_world - "Stops this page from showing up in the 'what links here' of the article being linked to." i response to the question "What does the colon inside the wikilink do?" - would you be able to comment on the discussion at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#Watchlist issues? Thanks. Carcharoth 00:17, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

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Animals Page

-Thanks for the welcome. I understand your concern with my editing of the animal disambiguation page if you are not familiar with Scottish football, but it is a fact that Rangers fans are referred to as The Animals and it is term used widely amongst Scottish football fans. I would ask for permission to reinstate the reference. See The Celtic Song —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Thesean43 (talk • contribs) 19:30, 2 February 2007 (UTC).

Wikibreak

Hey. It always worries me when people go without explanation. I hope everything's OK, and that you have a great wikibreak. --Galaxiaad 01:15, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

I understand from him that it is. He just needs time off for himself in RL! Tyrenius 02:15, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

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FieldTurf

According to your box you're taking a wikibreak and probably won't be able to weigh in on the current conversation regarding the NPOV violations over on the FieldTurf article. But just in case. I noticed you went a couple rounds with the user "Coz" who claims to not have a COI but is has "direct contact" with the company. I am currently running into the same issues with Coz, except that I myself have a COI and have made it known to be as transparent as possible (I work for the AOR for AstroTurf, though I'm not editing on behalf of the agency or Astroturf). The obvious problem is that if I make any edits to neutralize the POV of the FieldTurf article 1.) Coz reverts then immediately and 2.) My COI is called into question. I've repeatedly requested for neutral editors to neutralise the FieldTurf article where they feel appropriate and I am more than willing to offer my knowledge of the industry to clarify any questionable claims. Thanks for helping out if you're able. Ben 21:30, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

assessment

Just thought i would inform you anyway. I am trying to recover from a lull with introducing asessment but i am not sure the way to go about it and would welcome discussion on the WP:TIS project talk page. Simply south 14:43, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

Daniel Brandt

Take a look if you havent heard, SqueakBox 20:00, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

Flag of Northern Ireland debate

You have been involved in the flag debate on the Northern Ireland talk page. If you remember there were four option listed about the way forward. If you wish you can go here and make your position clear. regards--Vintagekits 21:59, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Interested in one of your photographs

I am finishing up a book, and looking around for illustrations and pictures to include in it. One picture I want is that of an oil refinery with a flaming smokestack. I found that you had uploaded this picture:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Grangemouth04nov06.jpg

I really like the picture. Would you be willing to give me permission to use it in my book?

--Sean grim 06:11, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for the welcome!

As a result of previous experience with Wikipedia, I have, however, no interest in establishing an account. Enjoy your day. 87.187.62.90 15:44, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

AJ Feeley

I am sorry about earlier. I was simply trying to revert to an earlier good posting on the AJ Feeley page after somebody made a long revision full of poor grammer and obvious bias. I think I inadvertantly reverted back to a page that had vandalism in it. If you look at my other contributions, I think you will see that I am a sensible and serious Wikipedia contributor.

Thanks

Thanks for the welcome, I hope that i'm doing the right stuff to have been noticed. Anibius 00:51, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

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Deleted.--Guinnog 16:58, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Welcome back

Very glad to see you are back. Gwernol 17:01, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Thank you! It's very nice to be welcomed. What have I missed? --Guinnog 17:11, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Oh man. Well WP:OR, WP:V and WP:RS have been replaced by WP:A; Essjay was a whole big thing; several other good admins have gone and we've got some new ones too; the vandals haven't stopped; the encyclopedia has grown. And many other things I've forgotten already. Best, Gwernol 17:14, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Gosh. Yes I heard about Essjay. Otherwise par for the course. Thanks for the update, and thanks again for the welcome, that was appreciated. --Guinnog 17:24, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

The other thing you should check out are our shiny new user warning notices. Very shiny. Gwernol 14:14, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, yes that all looks quite different from what I remember. Are there warnings for leaving warnings which fail to comply with the guideline? :) --Guinnog 20:23, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

:-) Actually they're pretty easy to get used to. You might want to check out WP:TWINKLE - horrid name but very useful tools to leave user warnings. I'm using a variant of them I built myself. And thanks for the revert on my user page this evening. Gwernol 02:24, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

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Caretaking

No problem. Tyrenius 02:27, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

But I can find one if you want! Tyrenius 04:55, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937

Hi! When u say "aircraft with transponders" it feels for me (non native speaker) like it should be "aircrafts with transponder", because: There might be multiple aircrafts around and each one has -AFAIK- just one relevant/active transponder... Btw.: What was bad about the link to the transponder article (should it be transponder (aviation))? Bye. --Homer Landskirty 19:32, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Aircraft is still written the same in the plural as in the singular in English.--Guinnog 19:40, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

cool... :-) --Homer Landskirty 20:07, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Re Vandal Report

Thank you very much for the information. Is it all the same user, do you think? Regards --Domer48 21:21, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

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bad image

dude, your image of the wtc sucks. centered caption "view from the east" implies the towers were much farther apart than they were. also, wtf is "H"?? it's not labeled nor a common abbreviation. Height? you gotta make that clear if you want a grown-up image. spell out, its only five extra letters that wont kill you. also, without the edit, it's simply a misleading graphic. no room for selfish napoleons

Squad templates

Hi Guinnog, welcome back. I just noticed you removed the WC/Euro Champ squad templates from Jim Leighton - you may be interested in this recent tfd. I'm not sure about anthonycfc's closing of it as a keep - seemed to be no concensus on balance of opinions, with several of the keep votes being on the proviso that a hiding option was implemented. See also the Football Project's talk on the subject. Caledonian Place 19:54, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for the welcome, and for that bit of heads-up. These templates are a bloody eyesore. I wish people would spend the same amount of time and energy improving the (often very poor) articles, instead of templating them. --Guinnog 19:57, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

I was just a bit surprised that User:Anthony cfc closed it as a keep - is there not an established % level for what can be deemed a result and what is no concensus, or is a majority all that is required? It seemed a very weak mandate to keep. Caledonian Place 20:03, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

Yes, I reviewed the TfD and was rather surprised too. The thing is, where there is no consensus, that is effectively a "keep" anyway. What we need is someone who can implement the suggestion that these templates should at least be collapsible, or else a concerted effort to remove them from articles where they add nothing, which I would say is most of the time. If I ever see an article like the Leighton one where a very short and fairly poor article is dwarfed by 5 or 6 templates, I always remove them. This is an encyclopedia we are building, not Panini trading cards. --Guinnog 20:11, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

South Africa

Hi Guinnog -- No, its not better, the lead in sentence is unreadable (try doing it out loud, only after several pints of guinness does it sound good) and it's not a full list of alternative names anyway -- if you have just one alternative name, you have to have them all. There's a perfectly good article listing all of them and all it needs is a link there. And, it's not the 'British' Commonwealth of Nations. Time for a drink. Rexparry sydney 23:36, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

I don't agree, sorry. Take it to talk, maybe. --Guinnog 23:39, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

Welcome back my friend

Hey Mr Guinnog, I am very pleased to see you active again. :) I hope you had a good break and that everything is going well in your neck of the woods. Take good care of yourself and best wishes to you and your family. Cheers, Sarah 05:18, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

Hi Sarah, and thanks for the welcome. It's good to be back! --Guinnog 07:10, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

Botswana

Hi. I've moved the articles back to "Botswanan" as this is the correct term. If you don't believe me, see what Wiktionary or Dictionary.com have to say about Botswana (a noun only) or Botswanan (adjective). Number 57 10:10, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

Is the Oxford English Dictionary a good enough source? It includes dialects other than British, yet does not have Botswana as an adjective. Number 57 16:21, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

According to the OED the locally used adjective form is Tswana! Number 57 16:32, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

Yes, I came across this as an option too, on the Bots government site. I would say this is used more often to describe cultural identity; political entities always use Botswana as the adjective, for example the army ("Botswana Defence Force"), and every single political party. It certainly isn't "Botswanan". That's just wrong. --Guinnog 16:39, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

Apologies for the delay - I was abroad yesterday. By the way, is there a Botswanan English dictionary? Perhaps you could quote this next time someone brings up this dispute (it seems like you have had it before!). Number 57 09:30, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Yes, I have no shame admitting I was wrong, and I'm glad the issue was sorted. Anyway, once I have eventually completed the Israeli politics section, I plan to fill in those redlinks on the Botswana election template using Albert C. Nunley's wonderful African Elections website, so I'm sure we shall bump into each other again. Keep up the good work! Number 57 19:25, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

David Tennant

Hi, Guinnog. I noticed that you removed David Tennant from Category:Irish-Scots, saying that there was "no evidence for cat". The evidence is in the "Personal life" section, which discusses his Ulster ancestry. You probably just missed it; I've restored the category to the article. —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 16:14, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks Josiah. To be honest I had missed it, but the assertion is still unsourced and needs to be verifiable for the category to be valid. There should really be a consensus to include this category as well, but I would settle for a source for the TV show statement. Best wishes --Guinnog 16:20, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

Cissie Loftus

Well, she was born in Scotland to a family of Irish Catholic descent (per surname and the fact that she was educated at a convent school), the latter of which is noted in the reference source book.O'Donoghue 20:32, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

RE: Johan Cruijff and bad editors

For one see: Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Marlon.sahetapy

For two, have a look at the edit that he made. It was a massive revert, removing all of my previous edits with no real explanation.

I have left the user a personal talk message explaining my position more clearly, but strong words, in my opinion, were needed. aLii 21:24, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

So I should have said "Dr.Sauerkraut appreciate your concern, but no blanket edits and rewrites please"? Note that he has only ever contributed half a sentence to the article, but for some weird reason likes to revert to a "random" badly-written, POV-ridden, poorly-referenced earlier version that he "apparently" had little to do with. aLii 21:42, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

Hope that's good enough for you, it took a lot of effort. aLii 20:01, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Sigh... (Sockpuppet?) help has turned up to allow him to beat a potential 3RR ban, and revert the page again. No comment on the talk page has been forthcoming from either "user". Any ideas on how best to work with this editor? aLii 00:12, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

LOL

Hmm! Tyrenius 03:39, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

I thought it was funny too! --Guinnog 07:20, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

To entertain the troops. Tyrenius 07:40, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

I Need Help

Hi, I want to make my own user page but dont know how to get them little boxes you have going down the right hand side. How do you get those? Also, are you a Celtic fan by any chance? I have also noticed that you do not record your ancestry on your user page, is there any reason for this? That last question is just out of interest really because when i was at uni i did my dissertation on identity in the UK thats all. Tammi Magee (nee O'Connor)TammiMagee 14:46, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Hi Tammi. You are welcome to copy any of the code from my user page and incorporate it into yours. Just play around, using the preview button until you have it how you want it. I regard allegiances and ethnicities as more damaging than helpful on a project like this, which is why I display that particular box. My football allegiances are too complex and desultory to be worth discussing. Best wishes, --Guinnog 22:07, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

PAGE HELP!!

Can you visit my page and comment on it? I want some advice on making it more catchy, and I like the set up of yours. I am not a new user. Read my little sandboxes like LongRiver Ledger and NEOPETSetc. and comment MAINLY on those please! THIS GOES FOR EVERYONE!! PLEASE VISIT AND COMMENT!! thanx!! BEATLES RULE!!! go fonz! 21:53, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

It's coming on. Using capitals is frowned upon here as being over emphatic. Best wishes, --Guinnog 22:08, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks!

Sorry about the airbus thing. Just trying to help. Guess I did it in the wrong way. Thanks for telling me ;-)! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 66.53.208.164 (talk) 04:06, 21 March 2007 (UTC).

Your comment

Thanks for pointing that out Guinnog, but you should direct your comment to Allii who started to make wholesale content and style changes to the "original article"; original as in broadly unchanged over a long period of time. Changes are fine when it concerns a better structure (quotes to Wikiquote etc) more in line with Wiki-guidelines but not fine for wholesale content & style changes without proper debate. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Brasileiro1969 (talk • contribs) 18:35, 21 March 2007 (UTC).

See User talk:Alii h for my message to that user. Please contribute at Talk:Johan Cruijff. Thanks. --Guinnog 18:39, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

One question. Who are you to qualify Alli contributions as good faith ones and discount my edits? Only proper debate can establish this, which has been lacking since the start of Alli numerous wholesale edits. So you threatening me with further action is offensive to me and I ask you to stop that and start encouraging Allii to debate things before changing. Thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by Brasileiro1969 (talk • contribs)

I am an administrator on this project. I already showed you what I wrote to Alii h. I am encouraging you both to discuss the matter in article talk; if you are silly enough to turn it into a revert war I would not block you as I have edited the article extensively myself. I would however be sure to turn the matter over to another, neutral, admin to take whatever action they deemed necessary. Please, please, take it to talk. --Guinnog 18:53, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Clawson

I added a comment on your vote. —KNcyu38 (talk • contribs) 03:50, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Also, "concerted degree of campaigning"? There is one user, JohnHistory, who canvassed against Clawson and was accordingly blocked. That hardly amounts to "concerted degree", which sounds deragatory towards the opposing users, if I may say so. —KNcyu38 (talk • contribs) 04:05, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Of course you may say so. Use of templates is a valid admin task; I use them all the time and I'm not sure what your point was about them. --Guinnog 08:17, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Well, the one diff that shows Clawson's most "diligent and correct application of policy" (and which you seemed to include as a rebuttal of the numerous diffs I brought up) is of him using a template message instead of his own words. Regarding being civil and humble, he certainly was, but still, I had to explain my point three times over until we got there, and I dare say I showed some patience he sometimes didn't show while arguing with various users up until very recently. Anyhow, whatever the result of the RfA, I sure hope and am also confident that he learned from the experience. The question remains, did he learn more from your voting input or from mine? —KNcyu38 (talk • contribs) 09:07, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

I take your point. I would hope he has learned from both. --Guinnog 15:59, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Well spoken. :) —KNcyu38 (talk • contribs) 17:11, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

How do you do?

Thank you for the kind welcome at my user page, Guinnog. I'll take a look at the links you included. Did you have a particular suggestion in mind? I'd known already about the four-tilde sign-off, thank you, but I may have overlooked it in one of the discussion comments I've made. (I've only done a few so far.) There's plenty to learn here about Wiki editorial controls and mechanisms, but it seems a worthy enterprise. There was an interesting article about Wikipedia contributers, written by Aaron Swartz, in which he separates them into two broad groups: of administrators (who make a large number of small organizational changes) versus specialists (who make a few large contributions, dealing more with content than with form). Being new, I'm in a third group, of course—making a small number of small changes. I see you're from Scotland. Have you read James Kelman? I'm from California, hence the "organize" with a "z." See you round. Fagiolonero 08:15, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Mt SAC Image

Good day, I am curious of your reasoning for deleting the image of the Mt SAC flying team aircraft from the Mt SAC website. Any clarification would be appreciated --Trashbag 14:04, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

Correction, you deleted the entire image from the data base. Now I'm really curious of your reasoning. --Trashbag 14:07, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

So what can I use for a photo that was shot by one of the college professors (now department chair) and used with permission? I have reuploaded the shot but any assistance on this would be appreciated before it gets zapped again... --Trashbag 14:18, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

Ok, now you're borderlining on being a bad name I can't say here. Next time give the person the opportunity to fix the image problem. According to Wikipedia:Image use policy under Deleting Images you are to "contact (through their talk page) the user who uploaded the image, telling them of your concerns." That would really help out us novices. --Trashbag 14:47, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

So let me express again, I have permission from the photoprapher to use this image. What tag should I be using here, I'm not trying to argue. I am seriously looking for assistance. --Trashbag 14:53, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

Yowzers... a barn thingy!

Mind? Wow, no, of course I don't mind! Thank you very much! --Dweller 12:01, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

Townshend

This article has been the subject of many many battles and edit wars. Huge amount of time put into this by people with differing views. An administrator finally helped resolve the whole matter. See talk page for the article. This addition will open up the entire war again. Not desirable nor necessary. Davidpatrick 18:04, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Re: David Tennant

Hi, Tennant discusses his Irish ancestry in the BBC's Who Do You Think You Are? programme.[18] [19] This is already briefly covered in the article. How does one go about adding references to categories? Martin 23:33, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Fair use in user space

You removed a public domain image from my user space saying it was licensed fairuse. The list from HighInBC states "Important note: some templates such as {{Money}} put an image in the fair use category even if it may be appropriately licensed or in the public domain. I will be attempting to screen out these categories as best I can but please check to be sure an image is only fair use before removing them from a page." Please pay attention before altering user pages, that image had text on it that stated copyright was expired. SchmuckyTheCat 19:31, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, I had already noticed your reversion of my change. --Guinnog 19:33, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

AfD

Hi John/Archive 2007, this is a message I'm posting to everyone who participated in this AfD. I have nominated the same article for deletion again here – you might be interested. Regards, KissL 09:04, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

RfA thanks

Thank you for your Support on my recent nomination for adminship, which passed with a final tally of 89/1/1. If there's anything I can help with, then you know where to find me. Cheers. - Michael Billington (talk) 11:22, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Ian McEwan

You made an edit to the Ian McEwan article, saying in the edit summary "flag is unnecessary here, see wp:flag". Unfortunately none of wp:flag, WP:Flag or WP:flag work. Could you please provide a link to where I should be looking? Thank you. (Note: I'm not at all disputing your edit.) H. Carver 13:46, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

My RfA

Thank you for your support in my recent successful RfA, and thank you also for your message of congratulation.--Anthony.bradbury 20:58, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

WP:ANI

There's a discussion about you at ANI. I'm trying to support you but User:MONGO reverts my comments calling me a vandal. See this DIFF 1, DIFF 2 and User talk:I'm so special

I'm sure you'll agree we have a trolling problem here? --I'm so special 10:38, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

I think Guinnog's smart enough to figure out who the troll is. – Chacor 10:39, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

FYI, I have belatedly posted a comment to the ANI thread, which you might wish to take a look at. Regards, Newyorkbrad 22:58, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

Hi Guinnog, thanks very much. I'm not 100% sure what actually went on. I signed in and found myself blocked for trolling. Is there anything we can do now or should I just let it go? --You have been blessed with a message from I'm so special 12:01, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Cheers! I was actually trying to follow WP:NOT and allow a new user to have an opinion in his or her username. Never mind eh! --You have been blessed with a message from I'm so special 12:10, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Sorry, one last thing - at User talk:MONGO, MONGO says: One of the biggest mistakes on Wikipedia (and I was cautioned about this when I made it) was when I supported his adminship. If he continues to make the kind of violations he has done this time, he'll end up being desyopped.--MONGO 08:09, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Is it not correct that MONGO was himself de-sysopped? I now have the mother of all headaches. LOL --You have been blessed with a message from I'm so special 12:12, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Ok! I hope to deal with you again soon. Thanks --You have been blessed with a message from I'm so special 12:14, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Hey

Check your email, please. :) – Chacor 15:01, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for your help, one more thing...

I put BBRBR on my user page and, until we get a write up in a magazine or something, I guess that's the best I can do. I would like to add our image, but must be doing something wrong because, although it is uploaded to Wikipedia, it won't show on the page. If you're the wrong person to ask, please forgive and I'll just research it more when I get a chance. Thanks again.--MissKriss13:41, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

BBRBR Article was for information purposes...

...and you deleted it. Whenever I want to know who someone is or what something is, I come to Wikipedia. So I added an article about a radio program that people are asking "what is BBRBR". I checked back and the warnings were gone, so I thought it was ok. Please help. Thanks.--MissKriss10:12, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

User:MONGO again!

Hi guinnog,

I've been having more problems with MONGO. Is he an experienced editor here because he seems to be immune to discipline somehow. Would you consider seconding a request for comment on MONGO's conduct if I was to make one? --I'm so special 22:29, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Help needed

Hello. I need your help in deleting the page Snake Derek. It's obviously a nonsense page with the material copied from Steven Davis. I've tagged speedy deletion twice but got removed by the creator or some other user both times. Thanks. Chanheigeorge 00:40, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

The problem has been fixed. Have a happy Easter! Chanheigeorge 06:33, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

Re: Thanks

You're very welcome. Glad I could help and remove the vandalism. Regards. Will (aka Wimt) 10:30, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

User page

Glad you liked it. Valentinian ^{T / C} 10:43, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

The Novels WikiProject Newsletter: Issue XI - April 2007

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Persistant IP vandalism

Yep, I'm afraid it is. That UEFA5Star template has been subjected to months attacks by IP's (have a look at the History). I requested semi-protection last week, but was denied cos too "low level". --Mais oui! 12:26, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

User:86.152.83.236

You're very welcome. Looks like you've got a live one there... 13:41, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

RFA IP

I smell another troll. Perhaps a request should be made at WP:OP? – Chacor 13:57, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

Scratch that, looks like he's just earned himself an indef anyway. :) – Chacor 13:59, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

Open proxy confirmed. Heh. :) – Chacor 14:12, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

Undeletion of Talk:Play/to do

Hi. You recently deleted the article Play/to do and its associated talk page, Talk:Play/to do. The talk page was transcluded into the to-do box located at Talk:Play, which is the convention for all articles in Category:Wikipedia pages with to-do lists. Would you please undelete just the talk page of the deleted article? Thanks, Black Falcon 17:22, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

Done. --Guinnog 17:33, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

Thank you. Cheers, Black Falcon 17:37, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

BMC page

Guinnog,

I was wondering if you might direct me to the source of some of your info on the BMC, particularly the comment about moving to a market structure for pricing beef exports. Thanks.... ianspeir at gmail dott comm

Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Danny

Lol. I usually get beaten to it. Or maybe I just don't realise the times I get there first, like this time. I don't think there's any doubt it's just a minor format error. Easily done in the hustle and bustle. What an extraordinary RfA. I wonder if any previous RfA has drawn so many users in before. And it's in that horrible grey area at the moment re. consensus. Tyrenius 02:50, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

Yes, it looks like bureaucratic lose-lose, and the portents are ominous for another massive wiki row, that is even more of one than there is already. A good time for a wikibreak! Imagine if Jimbo stood for RfA!!! Tyrenius 03:07, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

Italy national football team

You do realize that you revert to a wrong version? Italy never wore a blue jersey as an away shirt. Refer to this page for my references on the white away shirt. 121.44.226.60 08:22, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

Anyway, I decided to revert your edits, but I have put my reasons on the talk page. Feel free to add your thoughts and revert my edits if you think I'm wrong. 121.44.226.60 08:57, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

I was actually just trying to restore the link to the official site which another editor had deleted. Apologies. --Guinnog 11:15, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

Oh, sorry, I didn't notice that. Thanks anyway. 121.44.226.60 13:44, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

No problem, you did right to tell me about my mistake. --Guinnog 15:31, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

Userpage

Hi there; just passing through, thought I'd drop in.

I appreciate that you live in Scotland; I lived and worked in Falkirk for two years some thirty+ years ago. Just a question which I would love to see the answer to; there are many, many beautiful/picturesque/historic sites in Scotland. I have seen them. Grangemouth, which I have also seen, is none of these things. Why do you choose it for your userpage?--Anthony.bradbury 23:24, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

Hah. Long story. I thought it was one of my better photos I suppose; I try to refresh them once a week or so. Thanks for commenting. --Guinnog 23:48, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

Berwick-upon-Tweed

Long overdue. Well done. I expect it'll get reverted. If so, I'll redo the deletion later. --Tagishsimon (talk)

Thanks! I was sure the message would be one accusing me of vandalism or admin abuse. That was heartening. --Guinnog 09:43, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Magazine (band)

Hi, thanks for your template. But I don't think I did anything wrong on that article, just a couple of minor corrections [20]. And we don't have to login unless we want to edit a protected article, right? 89.240.202.62 14:03, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

The template I sent you was meant as a welcome and invitation to create an account. You did nothing wrong at all, and you are quite correct in your understanding. Best wishes. --Guinnog 20:13, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, reading back at the template, I can see it is very welcoming. But when I first saw it, I kind of thought it was someone having a go at me. I think it was the fact that the words 'your contributions' were linked to a list of my edits; it felt like Wikipedia was saying "We're onto you! We're watching every change you make!". Don't worry, I know you didn't write the template. I think maybe those words should be unlinked though. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 89.240.202.62 (talk) 01:58, 17 April 2007 (UTC).

cze

chetnie bym zostal tylko nie umiem angielskiego i nie zamierzam sie uczyc —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.156.254.3 (talk • contribs)

I'm dreadfully sorry but I don't understand you. Do you know English? --Guinnog 17:31, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Ok, it's Polish and the best I can get with a machine translation is "I do not know (do not be able) english only chetnie zostal and I do not intend sie uczyc " [21] I'll take it as being an apology and assure you that no great harm was done by your edits. However, if your English is that poor, you might want to try editing other wikis written in languages you understand better. Best wishes, --Guinnog 20:05, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Polish

If I recall right, admin Piotrus is polish. Snowolf ^(talk) _CON ^COI - 20:14, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Thank you very much, I will ask him/her. I was just wanting someone to check as I know how awful machine translations can be. --Guinnog 20:15, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Sure: "chetnie bym zostal tylko nie umiem angielskiego i nie zamierzam sie uczyc" -> I'd like to stay but I don't know English and don't plan to learn it. Tell him abouthttp://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strona_g%C5%82%C3%B3wna if he ever comes back, I guess...-- _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk}  01:48, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

Requested translation

Please see the Incidents noticeboard I have translated Polish messages. If you need my assistance further - call me on my talk page.Vlad fedorov 03:54, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

RMS Titanic

"Artefact" is the more common variant in British English, see for example http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-art1.htm --Guinnog 08:20, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

So I see. My apologies. Br Eng is correct in this article. Thanks. Pedro |  Chat  09:23, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

No problem at all. It actually isn't worth fighting over, but seeing as the article seems to have been using that spelling by consensus we may as well leave it like that. --Guinnog 09:27, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

Totally agree. You can see how edit wars end up on things like this! It's a British Ship so we use Br Eng, but an American rediscovered Her so we use American Eng. Ughhhh! Of such things are Wikipedia made! I genuinely thought that artifcat was Br Eng but I see the derivation is Latin (Arte Factum) so your spelling is dead right. Hope to see you around the 'pedia again and Happy Editing.Pedro |  Chat  09:33, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

Thank you, likewise. --Guinnog 09:38, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

Edinburgh map

I have left the following at Talk:Edinburgh, regarding the map of Edinburgh: "A copyright question. Do we have permission to copy maps at Multimap or does this derived work break copyright?" Regards, Mr Stephen 17:10, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

Talk:List_of_American_artists#Date_format

Any clues? Tyrenius 00:03, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

Controversies in the Leads

Just wondering when you're going to fix the leads for Woody Allen, William Burroughs, Chuck Berry, James Brown, Jerry Lee Lewis, Hugh Grant, Russell Crowe, Mel Gibson, Jimmy Page, Winona Ryder, Sean Penn, George Michael, etcetera. They're all lacking mention of their very notable "controversies" in the leads.Clashwho 04:50, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

The answer is "never" as I have no interest in these articles. Feel free to have a go yourself though! --Guinnog 12:02, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

Why would I? I disagree with your opinion that all controversies deserve lead coverage. If you truly believe they do, there are a lot of articles you should be fixing. So what is your special interest in Pete Townshend?Clashwho 22:27, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

Oh, he was a hero of mine when I was growing up. In fact I got my first kiss listening to a Who record. Woody Allen is the only one out of those I might be interested in. What about you, what's your special interest in Pete? --Guinnog 00:38, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

I'm a fan who wants to see him get a fair shake. You appear to be holding him to a different standard than all the other celebrities with controversial pasts that I have mentioned.Clashwho 03:19, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

If the controversy is a noted part of an individual's life, then it should be mentioned in the lead, as the lead is meant to stand alone to sum up the important aspects. See Michael Richards for example. Tyrenius 06:09, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

See Woody Allen, William Burroughs, Chuck Berry, James Brown, Jerry Lee Lewis, Hugh Grant, Russell Crowe, Mel Gibson, Jimmy Page, Winona Ryder, Sean Penn and George Michael, among scores of others, for counter examples.Clashwho 05:05, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

If they haven't included significant aspects of the person's life in the lead section, then they're not doing it properly. See WP:LEAD:

The lead should be capable of standing alone as a concise overview of the article, establishing context, summarizing the most important points, explaining why the subject is interesting or notable, and briefly describing its notable controversies, if there are any.[bold added]

I pointed you to Michael Richards because extensive debate ended up doing it properly.

Tyrenius 06:07, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

If you sincerely believe that, then perhaps you should go to the articles I listed and fix their leads.Clashwho 22:44, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

As I explained, I haven't much interest in doing so. If you wanted to, WP:LEAD is the guideline to quote. --Guinnog 22:59, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

I have no desire to, because I'm not holding Pete Townshend to a different standard.Clashwho 20:44, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

That's my understanding of wp:lead too.--Guinnog 14:44, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

British anti-invasion preparations of World War II

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i removing

because Marie Curie was not French

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Nuclear power plant question for ya

I appreciate your help over at Nuclear power plant. My question is this, and it is more of a procedural one, I know that Homer Simpson works at a Nuclear power plant and so does anyone who has watched it. Thus, the show itself is the primary source. So if almost everyone who watches the simpsons knows it, does it even need to be in the article? If it is in the article for those who don't watch the simpsons, then doesn't it need a citation? I ask because I tend to try to clean up many many 'pop culture' section, almost none of which have citations and are usually very loosely related to the subject. I can't find much guidance or precedence on how to deal with these sections based on WP:CITE and/or WP:NOT. Thanks for any suggestions you may have. --Chuck Sirloin 18:48, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

Revert

Thanks for helping, but I think on reflection his name really is Bally Smart! Oddly, the NCFC website is wrong, but the Soccerbase one is correct - I'd assumed it was the other way round, but when the anon came along and corrected it, adding a nationality, I assume good faith that s/he knows what's what. I can always move it all back again :-) --Dweller 16:37, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

Oops! Thanks. --Guinnog 16:39, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

Hmmm

Very intesting comment i must say. Well i guess Wikipedia is a place for everyone even Wikipedia editor wannabes.--Tweetsabird 17:20, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

Absolutely, we welcome everyone here, regardless of their skill or experience. However, when making widespread changes as you appear to be doing, it is better to seek a consensus first. --Guinnog 17:22, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

Oh thanks sooo much for the sense of humor. I mean i just think it's so funny how you say "we" as if you were associated with wikipedia lol lol lol lol hahahaha Good one...--Tweetsabird 17:26, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

Glad you enjoyed it. I am an administrator with over 30 000 edits here, so I certainly feel associated with Wikipedia. I appreciate your efforts to improve the encyclopedia, but I don't agree with your adding flag icons across multiple articles without seeking consensus. Thanks too for deleting your personal attack here; a strike through would be the normal way to retract mistaken comments but never mind. Happy editing. --Guinnog 17:29, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

confused

i am very confused because i dont see how it is rong to add flags many other pages have them so what is the big deal?. However if i need to be asking someone than just tell me and i will. I am hear at wikipedia to help out not start fights and i dont get why you need "support" as if i was attacking you i asure you no harm intended. --Tweetsabird 18:31, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

I see no way in which this is not making a personal attack. -- Chrislk02 (Chris Kreider) 18:33, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

No problem, Tweetsabird. You did attack me, twice, in calling me an idiot and a weirdo. Never mind, we all make mistakes. If you feel like adding flags to pages I suggest you start by suggesting it on the article's talk page. There are also centralised discussions (for example project pages) where you can suggest changes like these. Let me know if I can be any further help. --Guinnog 18:35, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

In case you are still confused, here was your other personal attack. We work together to improve this thing and rudeness doesn't help. Anyway, I am sure you needn't repeat the problematic behaviour in the future. Best wishes. --Guinnog 18:39, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

Im Sorry

I am very sorry for calling you those names and i will not add anymore flags i asure you. and i will be more careful about writing anything without asking first. once again im very sorry for being hateful. And thank you for offering your help.--Tweetsabird 18:44, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks a lot for that, I appreciate it.--Guinnog 19:15, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

Your Welcome ♥ --Tweetsabird 19:18, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

Mongo RFC

I have now posted an RfC on Mongo's behaviour.9.--Thomas Basboll 19:12, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the Copyedits: Mir

Thank you very much for the copyedits on the Mir article, they are very appreciated. If you have any comments on the article I would love hear them. Thanks Aalox 19:06, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

You're very welcome; thank you for all your excellent work on expanding the article! --Guinnog 19:12, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks! :D you should also check out Colds7ream's work on the Shuttle-Mir Program Aalox 19:51, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

May I also say thanks for the barnstar? :-) Cheers! Colds7ream 07:22, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

Aw, you earned it! --Guinnog 07:23, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

3RR

Basically it's to do with the unilateral recreation of Category:IRA killings. Before it was deleted, Tyrenius said that should the category survive CfD, a centralised discussion should take place about where and if the category should be used, and I am happy to respect this. I've said on the category talk page I'll be happy to discuss the category after the unilateral recreation has been addressed, and have even made initial comments despite that not being addressed yet. An editor who was involved in the CfD debate towards the end (and who !voted keep despite not addressing any of the problems with the category) has started re-populating the category without any consensus to do so, and I have pointed him in the direction of the various discussions to try and get him up to speed so to speak. One Night In Hackney₃₀₃ 19:11, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the note. I'd ask you to look at the talk page of Category:IRA killings, and all the contributions of the above editor. I repopulated the category as I was aghast that people should delete or depopulate a category that had just been approved in a CfD debate. Drmaik 19:15, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

Please see the deletion log for the category, it was unilaterally recreated. One Night In Hackney₃₀₃ 19:16, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

"Unilateral recreation" is one way of looking at it. Another is that it shouldn't have been depopulated while there was a CFD ongoing (which resulted in a 'keep') and shouldn't have been "unilaterally deleted" in the absence of a CFD decision. The deleting admin has been notified and pointed at the talk page. Tyrenius has suggested using WP:BRD and I've opened a section on the talk page for that. Bastun^{BaStun not BaTsun} 19:26, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

Please direct all further correspondence on this to Category talk:IRA killings, which I will watch. Thanks. --Guinnog 20:14, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

I've posted there (before I saw this page). There might be some difficult positions to resolve on this. It would be much better to keep it all on Category talk:IRA killings (or some other mutually agreed page) till it's sorted out, rather than spilling all over article pages, which is inevitably going to get at least some editors into hot water sooner or later for some form of transgression... Tyrenius 21:42, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

Careless edit summary / reputations

Hiya, just a quickie to ask you to please take care with edit summaries. Your recent edit to Edinburgh is explained as "rv kieran" and as I was the previous non-anonymous editor, it looks like a revert of me; however, it looks to me like the actual content you've reverted is a change by one of the anons, and nothing to do with my edit. It's no biggie at all, but I can imagine situations where it would matter more, and it's a shame to have one's name come up in page histories as someone who gets reverted — because it may make some other editors trigger happy against one! Cheers, :-) – Kieran T ^(talk) 17:52, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

Don't panic, it should be obvious to anyone that I was reverting to your version. I take your point though. --Guinnog 17:54, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks :-) – Kieran T ^(talk) 18:08, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

My RfA

Hello John, thank you for supporting my RfA!
I was promoted with a final tally of 68/12/0.
Also, please wish a Happy Birthday to Her Majesty the Queen. Vivat Regina!

You're being impersonated

70.186.217.199 created es:User:Guinnog and used it to vandalise our Main page Talk: I can't speek spanish this is the name of an english admin that banned me. [22]

I have infinite blocked him now, but it's likely he'll repeat it on other projects. Feel free to contact me if you want me to rename him so you can register this account.

Platonides 17:30, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

Thank you. --Guinnog 22:01, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

Flag Essay

Thanks for the barnstar! I'm impressed someone rewrote it as a serious essay :) Kaldari 16:55, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks It wont happen again

alright thanx for reverting that WWII page for me, I am trying to prove how quickly things are reverted in wikis for a school assignment to help me prove a claim. agian sorry for the inconvenience. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Guitarplayer001 (talk • contribs) 23:18, 23 April 2007 (UTC).

User:81.145.240.2

I have just reverted a piece of vandalism by this IP which has been missed for a couple of days. You have already warned of an imminent block since April 11. Considering that there have been further unhelpful edits, I wonder whether it is time to carry out that warning?--Natsubee 18:57, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

I'll have a look. --Guinnog 18:58, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

Sorry, what I corrected was Ghana - diff. I left it out.--Natsubee 19:01, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

I decided to just warn them for now. Blocks are meant to be preventive and there is no ongoing vandalism from that IP at the moment. Keep me posted if they do it again though, and thanks for the heads-up. --Guinnog 19:02, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for lift

Guinnog, I just wanted to say, thank you for helping me out just now. Hope your Wikibreak was good.EnglishEfternamn^talk_contribs 00:01, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

You're very welcome! I'm glad I was able to help. --Guinnog 00:01, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

Oh, also, have you taken any of my self-made quizzes? I'm trying to determine if Wikipedia users score better on them than people who hear about them on other sites.EnglishEfternamn^talk_contribs 18:33, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

Heliicopters template

hi, how do i get templates on a page without cutting and pasting the whole thing. What is the shortcut i type on the page? Willy turner 06:42, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

First you think the template was "good work", now you think it should be deleted?Willy turner 17:02, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

Yes, I didn't realise it was done outside the project. As with the other template you made, it would be better to seek project consensus before creating them in the future. Sorry. --Guinnog 17:04, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

Talk page

You're welcome. Brain40 ^{[talk] [contributions]}

Goebbels image

If we're going to make a Wikipedia:Non-free content claim on a picture of Goebbels to put in the infobox (without any discussion of that particular photograph but merely to illustrate our article), let's do it with one from NARA or the United States Holocaust Museum, rather than one whose copyright is owned by Ullstein Bild, a German stock photo company that aggresively protects their property... Jkelly 19:31, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

User:RhinoRadar

To answer your question addressed to this user, Lord only knows. I have scanned all of his edits, reverted all of his edits, and warned him on his talk page.--Anthony.bradbury 22:56, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

Weirdest editing pattern I have ever seen. Thanks for your intervention. --Guinnog 22:57, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

No problem

When a vandal removes the whole page it's so noticeable in recent changes... Natalie 01:47, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

Vandal

Anon. user 192.147.239.1 just vandalized H.M.S. Pinafore. I reverted the vandalism. Thanks -- Ssilvers 17:27, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for that. It is a school IP so I have warned them again. You did the right thing to revert them; if you want more info about how to deal with vandalism, look at WP:VAND. Best wishes, --Guinnog 21:20, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

Sorry about the joke page

Sorry about this. I was just, erm...testing the limits...lol. Probably won't happen again, unless of course some person has the internal drive to hack a random Wikipedia account...:P —The preceding unsigned comment was added by JohnnyFlew (talk • contribs) 01:15, 27 April 2007 (UTC).

Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell

Re: humourous change on this article--please be more careful with your Spellmaster account. This is not a typo but a British spelling. This article is on a Brit and uses British spelling throughout.Rlevse 01:17, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

Hi, and thanks for your message. In fact "humourous" is not a British spelling but is considered a spelling mistake worldwide. It's a bit like "honourary" which I have also been criticised for correcting. You will find links to the various places consensus on this has been reached at User:Spellmaster. Thanks for caring about spelling, as I do myself, and best wishes. --Guinnog 05:28, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

Arms

"... but I really wish the two of you would stop back-and-forthing"

I hope that you do not mean Doops and I, because we appear to be in total agreement! It is the IP numpties who are acting the fool, not the known and respected editors. --Mais oui! 20:05, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

I am dreadfully sorry if I misread the situation. I admit I did not research it in detail. Let me know if I can be any help. --Guinnog 20:06, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

I've protected it meantime. I really don't have any strong opinion about the actual issue being argued; but I hate to see the page being fought over like that. Makes the history really difficult to read apart from anything else. --Guinnog 20:18, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

Wildife of Africa

A new series is starting on African wildlife which have enormous potential and soon enough I want 53 beautiful main articles. I have begun by Wildlife of Algeria please please help out on these missing articles of Africa. Even if it is just stubbing this work is much needed. ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^{"Expecting you" Contribs} 10:39, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

Scotland

Knock yourself out so far as unprotecting the Scotland page goes. Nothing to add... Rab-k 11:43, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

Ping on coaching

Hi Guinnog, at one point you and Lar were going to start some pre-admin coaching with me...after an extended delay, I'm interested in getting back into it. I've already started discussing this with Lar at User talk:Akradecki/Admin coaching. Are you interested in continuing this? Thanks muchly! Akradecki 21:43, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

I'll be happy and honoured to help you in any way I can. --Guinnog 04:54, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

No problem!

Glad I could help out. Ironically your the only user I didn't post a 'your userpage/talk page has been vandalized' warning on and you still messaged me on my talk page, most appreciated. MrMacMan ^Talk 17:27, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thank you, Guinnog, for reverting my talk page to the correct version after it had been vandalized. Groogokk 21:14, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

Flag of Northern Ireland

Jonto isn't interested in discussing this, him and Astrotrain are just posting POV tags on the articles because they want to protray the Ulster banner as a offical flag, which it isn't, they seem to just want to engage in edit warring rather then discuss the issue.--padraig3uk 15:26, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

Don't worry, there will be a way forward. What do you think of my compromise version? --Guinnog 15:36, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

Looking again at your wording: The Union Flag is the only offical flag used for Northern Ireland, as for England, Scotland and Wales, its not technically true as England, Scotland and Wales have recognised national flags, therefore the Union banner is not the only offical flag for them. I will revert your wording for now.--padraig3uk 10:18, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

Really? Can you describe in what way you believe the English, Scottish and Welsh flags have official status? --Guinnog 14:11, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

From someones user page

Someone I once respected had something like this on their user page:

Defend each other!

This is amazing! It sums up how we can use conflicts to build our community instead of letting them tear us apart. I recommend that everyone read it.

When I think about being asked to attack the contributions of a valued editor that he made under duress in error over half a year ago, I wonder if it's best for me to even comment on that, or to focus on, oh, retaining the valuable users of the encyclopedia who have done everything possible to prevent disruptive POV-trolls from inserting garabge into the encyclopeda. Actually, I don't have to think that long. Have you considered asking the user who put that on their user page if they would stand up for User:MONGO when he was being relentlessly pursued by a single purpose POV pusher? Hipocrite - «Talk» 15:37, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

Nice, that's a fair point. I don't think that my actions are incompatible with supporting MONGO though; it might be interesting for you to read what I wrote on Wikipedia:Requests for comment/MONGO#Outside view by Guinnog and on Wikipedia talk:Requests for arbitration/Seabhcan#Statement by User:Guinnog. I like MONGO, as I have said already in this RfC. I do think though that some of the actions he and his supporters have taken are incompatible with a harmonious and collegiate editing environment. This example from last August shows (at least to me) that there has been some pretty poor behaviour in the past from anti-CT folks, all done I grant absolutely from good motives. As soon as we can establish that normal Wikipedia rules apply even on 9/11-related articles, we will have made progress here. Incidentally, do you support the vandalism that was done to the article template, without for the moment commenting on the presumed motives behind it? --Guinnog 15:58, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

Nothing you can do will get me to comment on anything that happened before the last time MONGO was dragged by a POV-pusher or Encyclopedia Dramatica troll in front of either the community or the ArbCom. September of 2006 is long, long gone. Normal wikipedia rules certainly do apply - which is why I am shocked that you have not blocked the Rootology sock, or the disruptive single-purpose POV-pushing revert warriors yet. Hipocrite - «Talk» 16:05, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

If you have any specific concerns about sockpuppets or a particular problematic editor, please feel free to share them with me and I will see what I can do. Thanks for the messages, you made a good point. However, I think there are more POV-pushers and single-purpose accounts out there than you perhaps realise. Best wishes. --Guinnog 16:14, 1 May 2007 (UTC)