User talk:Kathryn NicDhàna/Archive 11

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Archive 11: March 15 - October 11, 2007

Illegal Awards, WikiProjects and RfAs (Oh my!)


Contents

My Proposal.

I'm dropping my proposal; Sarah raised some points that I hadn't actually thought of. I want to thank you for participating in the discussion, and for your edits to the proposal itself. Acalamari 03:53, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

Here is my new proposal: User:Acalamari/IWN. As you were interested in my last one, I thought you'd might like to know about this one. Acalamari 20:33, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
I'm sorry it didn't work out. *sigh* - Kathryn NicDhàna ♫♦♫ 05:17, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

Yes you get yet another award

I almost posted this to your user page, but just as I was clicking, saw the caveat, so here you go, I would be honored if you would display this on your user page with the rest.... (just throw it on the pile of other ones, lol)

The Wikihalo Award The Wikihalo Award The Wikihalo Award I was going to give you a quick thank-you for your contribution to Reichstag Climbing, but then got sucked in to reading your other edits, so I hereby award you The Wikihalo award for your overall coolness and humor! Thank you for being YOU! - Sue Rangell [citation needed] 03:38, 15 March 2007 (UTC)[citation needed] This award was introduced by The Neokidon 21 January 2006.

I thought about reverting this as vandalism, just because :-D

Thank you. For the illegal award and all you've done to make me laugh today. I am honoured. - Kathryn NicDhàna ♫♦♫ 05:17, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

You have inspired me to create this. The illegal version of the WikiHalo:

Image What to type Description
The Outlaw Award {{subst:The Outlaw Halo|message ~~~~}} The Outlaw Halo Award

The Outlaw Halo Award is given for whatever reason you may have, to whomever you feel like.

This award may also be given to those who Ignore All Rules in an audacious way that protects the 'pedia.

It was introduced by Kathryn NicDhàna, illegally, on March 15, 2007, after Sue Rangell [citation needed] Climbed the Reichstag to present her with a Wikihalo award, illegally, without even asking anyone to vote on it.
  • Absolutely fantastic! w00t! - Alison☺ 06:44, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
    • cackle cackle. - kpn

St Patrick's Day

Thanks for your sensible comments on St Patrick's Day. More and more of us are getting worried about the alcohol-fuelled debauchery that's going on. While our political leaders fly to all corners of the globe, I'll be staying here, going to church (CofI, as it happens), and enjoying a Guinness at lunch. After that I'll probably wander into town to see the Parade. Let's hope we have a better day than last year!

All good wishes. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Bill Tegner (talk • contribs) 09:10, 15 March 2007 (UTC).

Thanks for your kind comments, Bill. Yes, I usually stay home on St. Patrick's to avoid the drunken louts. For the first time in years I'm considering going out this year, only because there's going to be some good music on (depending if we can get tickets, after procrastinating). Slán, - Kathryn NicDhàna ♫♦♫ 22:10, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, Kathryn, I'll raise my glass to you and Alison tomorrow. We're spoilt for choice in the afternoon: the races, or the parade, or planting first early potatoes. Actually I'm getting a bit of stick from an American called "IrishGuy". Possibly my abrasive style hasn't helped, but I think we've patched it up now. Bill Tegner 08:25, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Talking to myself

I must be in an unusually good mood tonight. I just left a welcome message for a poop vandal. Should I be applauded, or pitied? - Kathryn NicDhàna ♫♦♫ 05:26, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Help! I'm conflicted :) - Alison☺ 05:31, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
I suppose I could be applauded with pity, or patted on the head and told I'm pitiful. Actually, I thought of you, being kind to the troll :-) That's it, it's your fault! - Kathryn NicDhàna ♫♦♫ 05:41, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
I'm sorry, I'm too busy pitying myself for going through new pages and slapping speedy deletes on many of them. So applause is in order from me. Can you hear it? --Pigmandialogue 05:57, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
"Hip, hip, rah, rah, rah, tiger, tiger, tiger, siss, siss, siss, boom, boom, boom, bah" - to both of you! - Alison☺ 06:03, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
Oh, you are so overworked, Piggie, it's so sad and pitiful. I'll really pity you when you stay up three hours past your bedtime just so you can handhold yet another vandal through through his grief over having his autobio deleted. Oh, thought I didn't know about that, did you? - Kathryn NicDhàna ♫♦♫ 06:07, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
Oh, Ali, that's just the cheering up I need. It reminds me of an MC5 song. And one of the cheers in the article is from a college not too far away. --Pigmandialogue 06:14, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
And thanks for cheering me up! Nothing says 1960s quite like this. Oh the horror!! - Alison☺ 06:18, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
Yah, yah - blame me, whydontcha. *sob* ;) - Alison☺ 05:59, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
Yes, I blame you for corrupting us all into being nicer. It's terrible. I haven't yelled at anyone today. Yet. :-) - Kathryn NicDhàna ♫♦♫ 06:07, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
Oh hey, it's early days yet. I'm such the sweety little angel, aren't I? (* evil grin *) - Alison☺ 06:11, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
Oh and by the way - thank you for your kind comments over you-know-where. I've kinda kept away from there for the moment as I'm still processing that. But thank you for what you said. I really appreciate it. - Alison☺ 06:13, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Hurrah!

I like :-) As they say in uk.rec.sheds: H!TFD! Guy (Help!) 22:02, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Wheeeeee! Hands in the air! Whoops! :-) - Kathryn NicDhàna ♫♦♫ 23:15, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

LOL

No problem :-). I think I pinched the idea from Essjay's userpage actually... Though his had links to more important things. WjBscribe 23:26, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

I look forward to customizing it further. *rubs hands together conspiratorially* - Kathryn NicDhàna ♫♦♫ 23:15, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

WP:UW future?

Hi Kathryn,

Sorry for the blatant spam, but you have yourself down as interested at WikiProject user warnings WP:UW. There is a discussion on going here that might be of interest to you about the future of this project. There are two strawpolls on the talk pages and the second one is about the future of the WP:UW project. Now we have the end in sight we are looking at wrapping up the project and merging it with Template messages/User talk namespace WP:UTM and creating a one stop shop for all userspace template issue. As you have yourself down as interested in this project we thought you may have some input on this issue, and would like you to visit the discussion and give any thoughts you may have on the matter. Cheers Khukri 10:24, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

I'll check it out, thanks Khukri! - Kathryn NicDhàna ♫♦♫ 23:15, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

My Talk Page

Hi there. Just to let you know, 58.10.167.213 slightly vandalized my talk page. He wrote "anyone who consideres Reagan to be a hero should be shot and pissed on." I know it's small, but does that count for anything, and can I report him? Happyme22 23:23, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

Yes, that definitely violates WP:CIVIL. - Kathryn NicDhàna ♫♦♫ 00:01, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
Blocked. 48 hrs. If he causes problems when he returns, let me know. - Kathryn NicDhàna ♫♦♫ 00:25, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Starwood

The above-named arbitration case has closed and the decision may be found at the link above. Rosencomet is cautioned to avoid aggressive editing of articles when there is a question of conflict of interest. If edit warring or other conflict arises, it may be best to limit editing to talk pages. This notice is given by a clerk on behalf of the Arbitration Committee. Newyorkbrad 17:02, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

Deletes

hi Kathryn,

i just noticed that twice: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Samhain&diff=86782886&oldid=86663344 http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wheel_of_the_Year&diff=93445294&oldid=92695591 you've removed external links to essays written by Mike Nichols.

your first deletion was accompanied by this explanation: "While containing some interesting folklore, link also has inaccuracies, esp. concerning Gaelic culture and tradition."

what are the inaccuracies?

your second deletion was accompanied by this explanation: "prob. copyvio (wheel graphic on geocities site)"

so are you suggesting that the graphic on Mike's site is a copyright violation? do you have proof? and if it is, does linking to his site violate any wikipedia policies?

peace, -- Besonen 23:58, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

Hi Besonen, The diffs you [initially] provided go to the same edit, so I can only respond to that one. The Mike Nichols site has a lot of ads, and seems to mostly focus on promoting his book, which is frowned upon in the WP:EL external link guidelines. IIRC, I think that graphic is from the Erica Jong book, Witches. I don't have the book at hand, so I can't be sure, but I know I've seen it published elsewhere before. Unless he got permission, yes, that would make use of the graphic on his website a copyright violation. - Kathryn NicDhàna ♫♦♫ 21:37, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
I see you've changed one of the diffs in your message above.[1]In the future, if you could use edit summaries, and note any changes to your post in the discussion, it will help readers keep track of changes :-) As to Nichols's Samhain article, I'd say it has a mixture of good, verifiable info (for those who already know what sources to check) along with some speculations and a few inaccuracies. The problem is that, without any citations, the reader doesn't know which content in his essays can be sourced and which are his personal interpretations. Given that, even if there weren't the possible copyvio on the main page of his site and advertising concerns, I don't think the articles I looked at are appropriate for an encyclopedic reference. Slàn, - Kathryn NicDhàna ♫♦♫ 23:54, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Copyedit request

Hello, Kathryn NicDhàna/Archive 11. I saw you enlisted at the WP:LoCE therefore I wanted to ask if you wouldn't mind to take a look at 2012 Summer Olympics bids (52 kb). Since it is on FAC, it had two complete sweeps by a reviewer, but another one still thinks the prose is not professional enough to support it. I've put a request on the WP:LoCE but I sense it will take a long time before it gets a writing-style review.

I'm asking other WPs to help but I would really appreciate your contribution, but it's OK if for some reason you can't. Cheers! Parutakupiu talk || contribs 04:33, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

Hey there

Hi Kathryn. We miss you!! Come back soon ... - Alison ☺ 17:07, 3 May 2007 (UTC) (thinking of you)

Seconded :-). WjBscribe 17:21, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
  • preen preen* I'm poking around now and then, but life is way busy right now. Thanks for holding down the fort! - Kathryn NicDhàna ♫♦♫ 20:53, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Oh yayy!!! Welcome back :) - Alison ☺ 21:05, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

User:AlexNewArtBot

Hi Kathryn NicDhàna/Archive 11, as a WikiProject Scotland participant, please check out this this thread and consider adding the bot results page to your watchlist so we can manually update the New Articles page. There are some false results for the first batch, but I'm sure we can collectively tune the rules to improve the output.

If we get enough people watching the results page, we'll be cooking with gas as they say :)   This looks like a great helper in finding new Scotland related material. Cheers. --Cactus.man ✍ 01:14, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

FYI

It seems you reverted some edits on fulcanelli as vandalism, [2], which is now being questioned by the person who made those edits at Wikipedia:Help_desk#Fulcanelli ssepp(talk) 15:23, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads-up, ssepp. The Fulcanelli IP edits were made in the midst of a spamming spree,[3] for which I warned him on the talk page of the IP he used to make the edits.[4] - Kathryn NicDhàna ♫♦♫ 18:23, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

Regarding my edit to WP:UAA (thanks for asking)

I did not intend to mislead you; it was a misunderstanding. The WP:UAA system is new, so confusion will last a while until everyone figures out how it really works in practice. My comment was to clarify the basis for blocking or not blocking the user, rather than to issue a final ruling. Perhaps I should have made my intention clear by introducing the word "Comment" as is common in other discussions.

As I understand it, the reason UAA replaced WP:RFCN is that the discussions were becoming excessive, and deciding that a username violates policy is a simple matter in most cases. (If you read the relevant MFD discussions, it's more complicated.) Although I'm not an admin, I find the issue curious, and I happened to stop by when your case was active. I think it's helpful to provide administrators with additional information they might need, since you didn't clarify what about the username was offensive. In the future, if you see an unclear post on a noticeboard, you are free to clarify its intent - and again, I should have used the word "comment" in order not to confuse you. The word "administrators" in the page title is not meant to scare you away. :)

Best regards. YechielMan 02:56, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

Note: I just saw now that you would have preferred a response on my talk page. Ah well. If you want to continue the discussion, please copy my comment to my talk page and add yours. YechielMan 02:58, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
I'll reply on your talk page. - Kathryn NicDhàna ♫♦♫ 03:16, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

Hi

Please delete my username since it's against policy. Thankyou. Heywood Jablomie 12:38, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

YechielMan's RFA

Thank you for participating in either of my unsuccessful requests for adminship. Although the experience was frustrating, it showed me some mistakes I was making, and I hope to learn from those mistakes.

Please take a few minutes to read User:YechielMan/Other stuff/RFA review and advise me how to proceed. Please reply there, not here. Best regards. YechielMan 21:33, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Hello

Hello Kathryn, thanks for the cleanup at the Celtic mythology topics template. I woud appreciate if you could help adding these templates to all these pages to aid readers with navigating all these articles.

{{Celtic mythology topics|state=uncollapsed}}

{{Celts|state=collapsed}}

≈ jossi ≈ (talk) 04:31, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

Hey Jossi, good to hear from you!
Been meaning to give you a shout for all the hard work you're doing with the template. I'll see if I can do some more on the project a bit later today or tonight. Tapadh Leibh, - Kathryn NicDhàna ♫♦♫ 19:06, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
Tapadh Leibh ... do not know what that means.... :) I speak only Spanish, English, Hebrew and some Italian and French ≈ jossi ≈ (talk) 21:28, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
It's Scottish Gaelic for "Thank You" :-) - Kathryn NicDhàna ♫♦♫ 21:34, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
Would love to know how to pronounce it.... ≈ jossi ≈ (talk) 21:37, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
I suck at IPA, but roughly: "TAHP-uh Layv" or "TAHP-uh Leave", depending on dialect. That's the formal/respectful or plural form, btw (like vous en francais). The informal/singular is Tapadh Leat ("TAHP-uh Let" or "TAHP-uh Laht", depending on dialect). I suppose by the time we finish working on this template we'll be at the informal level. ;-) - Kathryn NicDhàna ♫♦♫ 21:58, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

LGBT WikiProject Newsletter

Delivered on 16:00, 6 June 2007 (UTC). SatyrBot 16:17, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Murloc

An editor has nominated Murloc, an article on which you have worked or that you created, for deletion. We appreciate your contributions, but the nominator doesn't believe that the article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion and has explained why in his/her nomination (see also "What Wikipedia is not"). Your opinions on whether the article meets inclusion criteria and what should be done with the article are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Murloc and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You may also edit the article during the discussion to improve it but should not remove the articles for deletion template from the top of the article; such removal will not end the deletion debate. Thank you. - Tiswas(t) 13:57, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the note, Tiswas. However, I didn't contribute to the article. I only reverted some vandalism. Slàn, - Kathryn NicDhàna ♫♦♫ 23:14, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

Karmichael Hunt

Could you copyedit Karmichael Hunt. It would be much appreciated.

SpecialWindler 21:53, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

Hi there

... I so owe you an email!!! I've not forgotten, but have been away from here lately. I'll get to it ... - Alison ☺ 00:58, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

Good to hear from you! No prob, I've been crazy busy, too. Just glad to know you got it, and I'll be happy to hear your feedback when you have time. Slán, - Kathryn NicDhàna ♫♦♫ 01:46, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

Your Bio

Just to let you know that the links at the bottom of your bio are broken for me: error message = there is a problem with this page's security certificiate.

Hope thats useful to you. Fixing the links would be useful to e since I was quite intereted in reading the pages, as opposed to merely looking for further insight into your own background. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.159.73.56 (talk • contribs)

What bio page? Which links? I'm not sure what you're referring to here. - Kathryn NicDhàna ♫♦♫ 19:56, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

RE: Edit of page Druid

Hrm, I dont actually remember exactly what I wrote, though it is entirely possible that my addition was from a personal perspective possibly made clearly so by acknowledgement of that or possibly allowed to stand as being self evidently so.

In either case, I apologise if my addition broke the rules, though I would also like to suggest that might be helpful to people such as myself who are unfamiliar with the Wiki guidelines if you pasted the content that you edit in your advisory notes about its suitability.

WRT to the same page, you might like to note that the following paragraph is not substanstiable in the context of the page:

"Nevertheless, much traditional rural religious practice can still be discerned from Christian interpretations and survives in practices like Halloween observances, corn dollies and other harvest rituals, the myths of Puck, woodwoses, "lucky" and "unlucky" plants and animals and the like. Orally-transmitted material may have exaggerated deep origins in antiquity, however, and is constantly subject to influence from surrounding culture."

Practices of this type, as can be easily discovered from reading The Golden Bough by J.G Fraser, predominate globally and thus cannot be construed to be directly relevant to the practice of Druidry. Even though practices of this type may have been incorporated into the druidic tradition, the only easily available (indirect) evidence of this is in the description that Bloedduewedd was a wife made of flowers.

It also seems unreasonable to rely on Roman observations on the nature of Druidry without accompanying such observations with a footnote to indicate that Roman descriptions clearly come relatively late in the existence of the practice. Note that this is an observation on what seems to be relevant to appreciating the value of Roman description in context rather than a criticism of the content of the page with respect to its accuracy in the context of Roman made observations.

WRT to consistent allegation that druidry had as its basis the rote memorisation of triadic guidelines, it is also often overlooked that the evidence for this is derived from a period much later even than Roman made observation.

I would have annotated the page with these comments, however, I did not wish to risk breaking the wiki guidelines again and so have left it to your discretion as to whether or not they should be included. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.159.73.56 (talk • contribs)

You can refresh your memory as to what you wrote by looking at the history of the article (click "history" tab in top nav. bar) or, even easier, clicking "my contributions" at the top of the page, assuming you have a static IP. (It would be easier to track your contribs. if you registered an account, btw.) The reverted edits can be viewed here. They were reverted because they appeared to be unsourced commentary; even if it were sourced, it appears much of what you wrote was about the beliefs and traditions of some Neo-druidic traditions, whereas the Druid article is about historical druids. If you wish to discuss changes to the article, it's usually best to do so on the discussion page of the article itself, that way all the contributing editors can participate. Slàn, - Kathryn NicDhàna ♫♦♫ 19:56, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

graphic help

Kathryn, you did such a great job on the original LoCE barnstar, I was wondering if you would mind also creating a ribbon for it? I gave it a shot today and was met with catastrophic failure. (I'm about the most graphic arts-challanged person on the face of the Earth.)

I figured it's a job best left in the hands of people who have a clue what they are doing :) Trusilver 09:27, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

Sorry for my delayed response. Very busy right now. If someone hasn't covered it I'll see what I can do, but it won't be very soon. - Kathryn NicDhàna ♫♦♫ 16:19, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
That's okay, it's not something that is exactly high priority. I'm not concerned if it's this week, or this month for that matter. Trusilver 18:10, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

WP:RFA/ACL 2

Thanks for your support in my RfA. By the way, I still stand by what I said in my E-mail to you from over a month ago. :) Acalamari 23:06, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

Congratulations for passing with flying colors! I haven't forgotten our conversation :-) I'm just waiting for my life to get a bit less hectic so I have the time to devote to the project. - Kathryn NicDhàna ♫♦♫ 16:19, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
Yes, it was more successful than I thought it would be. :) I hope I can do what I said I would do soon. :) Acalamari 18:30, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

Re Clans of Scotland Project

Hi. You are listed as being a participant on Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Clans_of_Scotland. I am trying to get some more direction into the project and was looking for some input if you are still interested. Nfras 03:03, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

Interested, just busy. I'll drop by and see what I can do when I get a chance. - Kathryn NicDhàna ♫♦♫ 16:19, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

Sale, Greater Manchester FAC

Hi. I'm sorry to bother you, but as a LoCE member, I just wondered if you would be willing to have a look through the Sale, Greater Manchester article. It is currently a Featured Article Candidate and needs a copy-edit for grammar by someone who hasn't yet seen it. Any other ways to improve the article would also be welcome. Thank you very much, if you can. Epbr123 08:09, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

LGBT WikiProject Newsletter

Delivered on 16:00, 6 July 2007 (UTC).

Response

It’s not wise to allege to this Wikipedia’s article. Doing what the article says thoroughly, nearly all the information in Wikipedia must be deleted immediately. You can always doubt any source. There’s an alternative point of view on anything. Why waste your time trying to stop an attempt to say what was the real reason for this great person to die. The article about Jim’s death is nothing more than a logical conclusion from all the known facts without inventing anything new. If you read the article, which is just a combination of all the facts that are widely known and were previously published in reliable sources, and you have some questions concerning distortion of some facts, write about it and give a link to a source. Wikipedia’s slogan “verifiability, not truth” lets one still state that it’s the Sun spinning around the Earth. What I’m doing is not advertising or promotion, it’s just letting people know information (I get no money doing this). If you continue what you’re doing, then, as I doubt that everything you wrote to Wikipedia comes from encyclopedic sources, most likely I’d have to edit all your articles. Try doing something more useful in your free time. Referento Referento 06:04, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

If and when you return from your time out (blocked 72hrs for spamming and 3RR), in addition to reading WP:V and WP:RS (especially WP:REDFLAG), you may appreciate reading these helpful tips. Cheers! - Kathryn NicDhàna ♫♦♫ 14:27, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

I reverted the terrorism portal

But do not be surprised if a sock or meat puppet shows up to back Verklempts position. See the Ward Churchill misconduct issues talk page to get a good idea of what I mean. I will not edit war but I will seek admins help if they go against the consensus. Albion moonlight 18:21, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads-up. I'll try to keep an eye on it, as well. - Kathryn NicDhàna ♫♦♫ 19:45, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

Copyediting help?

Heya, Kathryn, I noticed you've listed yourself as a member of LOCE, so could I ask you if you would mind copyediting Austin Nichols for me? It's up for FARC and an editor has concerns about its prose. Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 21:33, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

Is that a no, or a maybe? Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 10:57, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
Mea Culpa. I thought I'd responded already! Sorry, I've been really busy with non-WP world (eh, what's that? ;-)). I took a look at the article and, while the prose could use a bit of improvement, it's really not that bad. The version I looked at needed more fleshing out about his career, imho. I also think the acting is more important than the skiing, which seemed a bit over-emphasized in the version I read. Anyway, I felt I needed to familiarize myself with the topic more before attempting any rewrites. The links to some of the sources I tried to check were broken, and I wound up spending some time Googling for replacement sources and additional info. If I get a chance I'll poke at it some, but I'm so busy right now I doubt I have the time to give it the attention it deserves. Maybe when things let up a bit. - Kathryn NicDhàna ♫♦♫ 15:13, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
Oh, that's ok. I'll go find another copyeditor, but if you do ever find time, your input would be welcome. :) Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 15:44, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Manual of Style (United Kingdom-related articles)

A guideline is being drafted at this page which would prescribe that all UK nationals be described as British, rather than English, Welsh, Scottish or N. Irish. Unfortunately the proposer appears to have overlooked notifying the UK based projects. --MacRusgail 14:57, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

Here we go... Tapadh leibh for the info. - Kathryn NicDhàna ♫♦♫ 15:36, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

Scottish Islands project

(Sorry Kathryn, another piece of info - more peaceful this time!) I thought from your past edits, you might be interested in Wikipedia:WikiProject Scottish Islands - come on over and have a look. --MacRusgail 17:20, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

I'm very grateful when you pass these things on, so no need to apologize! I just wish I had a bit more time to work on things right now. When my schedule lets up a bit I'll see what I can do. Moran taing a-rithist for all your good work :-) - Kathryn NicDhàna ♫♦♫ 15:33, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

Welcome to the project Kathryn. When you have time I hope you will be able to assist me in keeping MacRusgail's wilder excesses in check<grin>. Normally I continue these little salvete's with a bland statement about "let me know if I can doing anything to help etc.". However, noticing your user page I wonder if, at the risk of creating an impertinence, you could do me a favour? I am currently largely AWOL from my regular duties on the islands because I over-ambitiously sent an article to the FAC room - Renewable energy in Scotland (nom). Here I have troubled the estimable User:Tony who, pulling writer's rank, demands better copy-editing to remove stray back-ellipses, or something like that. I have asked my chums at WP:SCOTLAND, but they all seem to be down at the wiki-boozer discussing their latest collection of stubs about footballers or some such. I know you are busy, but if you could either take a quick look at it, or suggest someone who could, I'd be very grateful. Ben MacDui (Talk) 07:26, 29 August 2007 (UTC) (PS If you think it is unsalvageable I shan't be at all offended. I'd rather have honesty than politeness).

Panic over! Hope to see you on the islands sometime soon. Ben MacDui (Talk) 08:30, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

Hope so, too! Glad you worked it out, and I'll be on board when my RL schedule lets up. - Kathryn NicDhàna ♫♦♫ 16:12, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

Irish articles assessments

It seems that the assessment of Irish articles has fallen off the radar but recently Flowerpotman, Sarah777 and I have been doing a little work on this as well as actually classifying articles (actually Sarah has done the most work). Anyway, you are listed as a member of the WikiProject hence this post.

  • The first thing that needs doing is to work on the WikiProject template. Actually there are two templates both of which get recorded by the assessment statistics bot that collects the ratings and creates the listings in the category Category:Ireland articles by quality. The two project templates are {{Irelandproj}} listed on the main project page and {{WikiProject Ireland}} listed on the assessment page—the first allows both quality and importance rating as well as nesting but no reviewer comments, while the second allows quality rating and comments but the importance does not seem to work and comments are not included. This needs to be fixed, so we use one that works fully—can you help?
  • The next thing is to decide if we just let editors assess as they wish or to create some criteria or guidelines for rating the quality and importance of the Irish articles. Personally I am in favour of some guidelines—some will be easy to decide while others are a little more complex. What do you think?
  • Some projects make lists of articles for assessment while other go after groups of articles by category. What should we do? A mixture of both by using a "To do list"?
  • As of the last assessment statistics bot run on Sunday, August 20, only 1462 articles have been tagged, of which 1156 have been assessed for quality but 660 of these have no importance value.
  • Besides these 1462 there must be hundreds more untagged articles that should be tagged when we get the template issue mentioned above fixed.

We are not bad in our assessments but some projects have all their articles assessed while others are lacking more than we are. We can really use a few active editors to bring assessments to the fore. Please reply on the assessment talk page as to what you can do. Please help out. ww2censor 17:18, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

Ralph Morse (actor)

Hi Kathryn

Thank you for your comments on my entry on the above. I apologise if I have not followed the appropriate protocol in compiling this information. Although I have used Wikipedia myself for research and found it most useful, I am new to editing and would therefore appreciate your advice on how to improve this entry.

I shall make no further amendments to Dr Morse's acting page until I have received further advice from you.

My thanks —The preceding unsigned comment was added by George Abaris (talk • contribs) 20:27, August 21, 2007 (UTC).

Hi George, Actually, it would be better if you continued to work on the article, *after* reading the links I gave you about Wikipedia's Manual of Style, especially the standards about citing sources. Right now you have what is obviously Original Research in the article. I think the subject is notable enough for a WP article, but you'll need to take care of these problems with it if you want much of the info to remain. Thanks. - Kathryn NicDhàna ♫♦♫ 17:39, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

Hi Kathryn. Thank you for the help; I am away for a couple of weeks, but will revisit the whole article on my return. Best wishes George —Preceding unsigned comment added by George Abaris (talk • contribs) 06:44, August 28, 2007 (UTC)

Irish people photos

Hi Kathryn. I think it would be great to see them back. When I was at it I tried to include as many interesting and up-to-date ones as I could find, and present them in a visually appealling manner. Don't think too many agreed with me! But don't let that put you off! Let me know when you have a few up. ' —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Fergananim (talk • contribs).

About this photo, I received word that the image from the website of the Polish President is now OK to use. The license is GFDL and it is listed at [5]. I hope this helps in image selection. User:Zscout370 (Return Fire) 13:33, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
Thanks! Maybe I'll give the collage another try once we find someone to swap out for Bono (who I believe is the only one with license problems at this point). Actually, we could just put back one of the older guys we removed from the earlier version. - Kathryn NicDhàna ♫♦♫ 17:39, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

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Karohatch

Hey Kathryn, I reverted the page Gaels back to the last version that didn't have Karohatch's nonsense in it. Of course there's probably a lot of even older changes he's made that are still there, but looking through it I didn't see one edit of his that actually improved the article, and more often than not, they made an even bigger mess. This is besides the link spamming he's been doing for months now. I'll go back through later and see if I removed anything good, but most edits during the last month were either his, people reverting him, and vandalism. Just giving you a heads up, I saw you've been monitering the page.--Cúchullain t/c 21:41, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

Tapadh Leibh for your help with this! Seriously, if he doesn't start making positive contributions, he's going to need a good, long, time out. I am really fed up with his chronic, low-level but persistent harm to articles and waste of editors' time. I have yet to see him make a single helpful edit. - Kathryn NicDhàna ♫♦♫ 21:52, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

Neo-druidism article

Hey Kathyrn, you might want to take the broom to the Neo-druidism article. The article itself doesn't do a very good job of showing that the movement is a completely modern movement without historical ties. This is, of course, in no small part due to the massive amount of misinformation floating around all thins Celtic but this one is particularly glaring. I've refitted the introduction and will move more information from the Druid article itself there. Your help would be appreciated. :bloodofox: 10:46, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks!

My RFA
Thanks for your support in my request for adminship, which ended with 58 supports, 1 opposes, and 1 neutral. I hope your confidence in me proves to be justified. Addhoc 18:44, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

Our mutual friend

Is at it again. I've blocked him for 48 hours. If he repeats the behavior when he comes back, I'm just going to block him indefinetly. I've seen nothing but disruption for him, and it's getting increasingly hard to assume good faith about his actions (or at least, to assume that he'll refrain from disruptive edits if he's allowed to continue). Please let me know if you catch him again before I do, I'm not at all optimistic that he'll get the message.--Cúchullain t/c 06:35, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

The block is well-deserved. Thank you. So many of us have tried to explain WP101 to him, and he doesn't even give the courtesy of a response, let alone alter his inappropriate behaviour. His actions have been uniformly disruptive. Without fail even his non-spamming efforts leave behind messes others have to clean up. He's been given every chance to learn to do better and has shown absolutely no interest in doing so. You have my support in an indefinite block if it comes to that. - Kathryn NicDhàna ♫♦♫ 21:11, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

I am my own worst vandal...

Thanks for not reverting my userpage. I'm just doing some redecorating and shuffling things around. If I'm half as smart as I'd like to think I am, my user page will become more useful. It's been rather more an overwhelming praise song to me, me, me. Perhaps I'm growing out of being overly self-conscious about my participation on WP. Good. Watch out, my funny superscript and coloured sig; you may be next. Cheers, Pigman 18:33, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

British/Irish articles

In otherwords but out, is what you're saying. Sony warned me about the political atmosphere around those articles. Myself and Hughie have made peace. Anyways, I'll cut down my participation on those articles. I've done 'nothing' wrong, on the 'four' articles I'm involved in (no editing warring, personal attacks, trolling). I was just trying to help. GoodDay 20:56, 4 October 2007 (UTC) OK, I'll exit. The more editors involved in those discussions, causes more bickering then solutions. If having 'one less' editor involved will help things? Then I volunteer to remove myself. GoodDay 21:21, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

I'm not saying that you shouldn't work on the articles. I'm just suggesting that, as these discussions can get very contentious, you be extra careful to mind WP:NPOV, and realize that joking about some of this stuff won't be perceived as jokes by everyone in the conversation. Reading through the Ireland discussion, it was clear to me that many people had no idea if you were joking or not, and rather than lighten the mood, it was increasing tension and combativeness on the part of some participants. Some of what was going on seemed to me to be in violation of WP:POINT, even if it was intended as a joke. We always need editors that can handle contentious topics with grace and NPOV. Part of that process is reading up on the history of the talk page discussions, and knowing that, no matter how careful we are, someone is likely to take offense, for whatever reason. It's something we all need to watch out for. - Kathryn NicDhàna ♫♦♫ 21:45, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
Quite true, Sony warned me about the political atmosphere of those discussions earlier (I should've listened). Also I had a difficult time convincing Hughie that I wasn't a troll (not sure I've completely convinced him). I must admit, I do feel bruised by the experience; plus there's nothing more I could add to those discussions. I'll be more careful, though I think my credibility there, might be beyond saving. GoodDay 22:28, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
Curious (though not getting involved), what's happening at Tharky's page? GoodDay 20:18, 5 October 2007 (UTC)
Well, it looks to me like people are just blowing off steam. Better on a user talk page, and in such an obviously ridiculous way, than on the article talk. Hell, if people can bond over laughter and make fun of ourselves, it might actually help things in the long run. - Kathryn NicDhàna ♫♦♫ 23:14, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

Re:October 2007

Sorry ma'am, I accidentaly deleted that part of the article. I myself am a neo-druid from SW.Georgia, and I would never intentionaly delete something like that. I was kinda in a hurry today, as this was my day off from work but my boss called me in to cover for someone who didn't show up. My apologies.--Lord Balin 01:07, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

Fixed now :-) We all make mistakes. It's quite understandable when one is multi-tasking. Slàn, - Kathryn NicDhàna ♫♦♫ 01:17, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

Random stranger popping in

I just have to say, this made me laugh out loud. Thank you for having a great sense of humor! Ariel♥Gold 19:42, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

Thank you! Editors must keep our spirits up or the project will suffer :-) - Kathryn NicDhàna ♫♦♫ 19:47, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

Admin nomination

Dropping you a line regarding your comment. First, a big thank you for the feedback, seriously it's always helpful, believe me. I just wanted to let you know that while I may not have been vigorously fighting vandalism through the formal channel of WP:AIV, I am familiar with the space - guess I just haven't been that bold enough to use it. My anti-vandal tactics are more subtle I suppose mostly in the form of intermittent reversions that get lost in my numerous edits. Trying to get approved for the antivandal software too. Anyway, this is not meant to sway your decision, just remarking. Really, thanks again for the input, cheers! Wisdom89 01:56, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

Reporting to WP:AIV is important in a number of ways. Once a vandal has been warned enough to be reported, it's how you get them blocked. Then, by watching how blocking admins respond to your reports, you'll get a sense for what length of blocks are appropriate in different cases. Whether your reports result in block or not, you'll also get a sense of which users deserve blocks and which deserve to be given another chance before a block. All of this is vital stuff to learn if you're going to be trusted with the mop. Good luck! - Kathryn NicDhàna ♫♦♫ 02:23, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
P.S. - Also, while reverting vandalism is good, it is also important to put a warning on the vandal's talk page. If they haven't been warned, they may not know what they're doing is wrong, and they may continue to vandalize for longer before being given sufficient warnings to earn them a block. While reverting is helpful, it can be frustrating to the rest of us to see that the vandal could have been stopped sooner if proper warnings were given. - Kathryn NicDhàna ♫♦♫ 02:56, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

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