Hello, this is the seventh of my archive pages (see also my other archives). Please leave responses even to this page, on the main talk page where I and others will see them! Thanks! zoney ♣ talk 13:35, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
as the headline says.... but thats kind of typical irish, isn't it?
I also took the wikiaddict test thingy..and got 81 points straight on I'm trying to improve my english in this way, and so started right on with the Sister Fidelma article..
Lectonar 12:03, 5 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Culture of Greece is this week's Collaboration of the week. Please come and help it become a featured-standard article.
This is a whole can of worms, I'm afraid (see my comments on the talk page. It would be a pity if the article failed of FAC because of the title, but really Republic of Ireland is not quite right. What do you think we should do? Filiocht 12:41, Nov 11, 2004 (UTC)
hey!
Just wanted to thank you for the warm welcome. Really appreciated it. Very Irish.
Slan go foill,
Ice.
I also have a little irritation, personally, when people suggest that failing to exert an heroic rescue attempt is bad faith or bad character. I think it's great when people figure out new ways to redirect, when people find new stuff to supply wants, but I also think those are ancillary efforts. Where possible (e.g. my suggestion on the Exploding Wales thing), it should be done, but no one should be accused of being a monster for not doing so. I thought your comment crossed from saying that a helpful thing could be done to suggesting that other people were somehow bad for not doing it. That's what I meant by being respectful of one another.
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Hi there,
I recently rewrote the passenger train human waste disposal, I'm not sure if you saw this before posting to the talk page. It now does not go into specifics for the US, merely noting that the traditional method (i.e. dump on the tracks) is still used in most of the world (except for newer stock). While it's hard to discern the exact situation in the Western world (without checking each country), some Western countries definitely still have it (certainly here in Ireland we have "dump it" trains, I presume Britain also), so along with the developing world, the traditional method is still used in most of the world (I'd actually be reasonably confident in saying most of the Western world, but that is less certain).
zoney ♣ talk 23:01, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Hi Any ideas what to do about this week's ICTOW? Filiocht 13:10, Nov 15, 2004 (UTC)
Zoney, thanks for your "yes" vote on my RFA. I'm looking forward to helping the other admins in keeping things tidy here. Joyous 00:11, Nov 16, 2004 (UTC)
Hi Zoney, I see the Irish fraternity have Architecture of Ireland as this weeks collaboration, I've made the odd tweak, but as I'm in no way Irish don't like to really touch it; but you might find Richard Cassels of use. I'm planning to expand it, but have only just put it on the site, it probably wants a copy-edit too, but I've looked at it for too long to see what's in front of me, so need to leave it alone for an hour. Good luck with the collaboration. Giano 15:10, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Regarding the Irish universities list i have two points to raise:
Hi there,
I would like to know as to why you saw fit to move this page to Limerick Cathedral? It is not, nor ever has been, referred to as such. For one thing, Limerick also has a second cathedral, St. John's Cathedral. Please do not move this page again.
zoney ♣ talk 15:51, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)
I'd like your opinion at Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration. Thanks. Chameleon 12:23, 20 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Thanks for having edited all the links (again). It occurred to me that would have been a better name for the (non-existant) page, but only after I'd already done all bar about two of them and I so didn't have the energy to go back and do it all again. Thank you. :o) — OwenBlacker 15:30, Nov 24, 2004 (UTC)
Hi there. Thanks for the welcome (and the subsequent edits :-)). I'm just dipping my toes into this stuff & am still finding my feet. I'll try not to screw up! - Pcassidy
Zoney, thanks for fixing the template. Maurreen 13:43, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Zoney
You need to move Farranfore to between Killarney and Tralee rather than Killarney and Mallow as now.
cheers
MarkD
Thanks for the explanation. I appreciate your attitude, which seems to be one of what I would characterise as "healthy scepticism". I, too, have seen commissions whose purpose is to rubberstamp what has already been determined to be "The Way It Shall Be" by "The Powers That Be" and "Those In the Know", and am not suprised that this would be another one. Anything that can improve any system of voting should be followed up on IMO; that way we have no more "Florida 2000s", or current Ukraines. Rlquall 03:19, 28 Nov 2004 (UTC)
You created the physical map of Ireland, right?
Aran Island (Donegal) is Arranmore according to everyone but British map makers :-). Arainn Mhór in Irish, Arranmore to us natives. Only the Brits call it Aran Island, and insist on doing so usually till someone in the pub tells them not to on their first night on the island
Kiand 23:23, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Nice photo of st. Johns. Did you take it yourself? Seabhcán 13:58, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Hope my little intervention helps. Filiocht 08:37, Dec 3, 2004 (UTC)
Hi Zoney! I just noticed that the excellent map you uploaded at ga:An tAontas Eorpach has An Úkráin for Ukraine - the correct word is An Úcráin. Would you be able to change it? --Kwekubo 22:53, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Don't know what to say, really. I think you do tons more than I: the towns of Ireland project stunned me. Filiocht 08:26, Dec 6, 2004 (UTC)
Regarding your addition a while back to Hurley (stick) - you said people mostly buy hurleys from local craftsmen. I'm not posing as an expert, but I would have thought most people (like myself) would buy them from sports shops. Am I wrong? JOHN COLLISON [ Ludraman] 20:54, 7 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 1000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:
To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "((DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual))" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:
OR
Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "((DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual))" with "((MultiLicensePD))". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. – Ram-Man (comment) (talk)[[]] 14:11, Dec 9, 2004 (UTC)
Zoney, yes, I understand. Euro bills have a copyright notice. But the general copyright status of money images is in dispute right now. I'm tagging all money graphics as ((money)) so that the copyright status can be determined and changed in one location, instead of on hundreds of different images. (Right now, there are hundreds of untagged money pics, since no one is quite sure how they should be tagged. If they are all tagged ((money)), then once we agree on the status, we can set that in one place.)
You can weigh into the debate here or here, or you can change the template's wording here. – Quadell (talk) (help)[[]] 15:55, Dec 10, 2004 (UTC)
Hi. I don't know how often you visit the List of European cities with alternative names these days, but there has been a controversy on its talk page for the past ten days or so, and I was wondering if you would care to review it and possibly intervene. Thank you. Pasquale 18:19, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)
hey, the map of the EU you uploaded shows the whole of Cyprus as being in the EU rather than just the Greek bit. Is this an accident, or do i not understand euro politics very well (probably the later). The bellman 03:17, 2004 Dec 18 (UTC)
Hi there,
I notice you've made a group of edits to Irish location articles. I would suggest that the "stub" format for external links and see also is retained on those articles which are stubs. You will find it is an accepted option, and one that we use for Irish location article which aren't well developed (it looks tidier when there are no other sections/headings).
Also, as regards Northern Ireland... By and large, Irish topics are treated apolitically on Wikipedia thus far. Certainly as far as geographic articles are concerned, the island is treated as a whole. After all, the current partition is only a modern political development, and the region, while part of the United Kingdom, it physically/geographically, culturally, etc. remains Irish (the culture aspect is certainly trickier, some aspects are "simply British", many are most definitely truly Irish, and others are fudged as "Northern Irish", though that is a somewhat contrived term).
In summary, I would suggest you rename the UK geo-stub to GB geostub.
It does not make sense to distinguish the separate jurisdictions in Ireland when referring to things in an apolitical geographic sense.
Thanks, zoney ♣ talk 17:00, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Thanks for help in answering my queries on the current EU map. The US CIA has recently added an entry about the EU to it's World Factbook. See it here: [1].
I don't know if it can be any use to Wikipedia, but hey, it's worth a shot. - Hoshie 10:46, 25 Dec 2004 (UTC)