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Re Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse (recent news story in Ireland): The coverage of this that I'm seeing in the general press seems to emphasize that this is a " Catholic Church" issue. Our article hardly mentions the Catholic Church. We want to make sure that our article is NPOV and neither over-emphasizes nor under-emphasizes the facts. -- 201.37.230.43 ( talk) 16:49, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
I have nominated Samuel Beckett for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Cirt ( talk) 06:24, 22 May 2009 (UTC)
I don't think it's right to have the article British Isles under WikiProject Ireland seeing as it is an insult to our country to have it under the heading "British". I have complained about the name on Talk:British Isles, and I'm proposing we have a vote by WikiProject Ireland members only, as to whether we should remove the article from the scope of this WikiProject, in protest.-- FF3000 ( talk) 21:20, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
I agree. I've never heard an Irish person use this politically motivated term. 86.44.53.226 ( talk) 14:57, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
The term 'British Isles is not a political term but geographic. It seems to be thought of as political only by the Irish - similar, possibly, to New Zealanders not being too happy with 'Australasia'. 93.107.139.186 ( talk) 09:07, 22 December 2009 (UTC)
WikiProject Irish Music is in a sorry state. I'm trying to knock new life into it, but if other users don't contribute it will probably have to be merged into WikiProject Ireland. Please join if you can, it's already listed as inactive.-- FF3000 ( talk) 17:12, 28 May 2009 (UTC)
I have reviewed Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh for GA Sweeps to determine if it still qualifies as a Good Article. In reviewing the article I have found several issues, which I have detailed here. Since the article falls under the scope of this project, I figured you would be interested in contributing to further improve the article. Please comment there to help the article maintain its GA status. If you have any questions, let me know on my talk page and I'll get back to you as soon as I can. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 ( talk • contrib) 02:21, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
Re the "Ryan Report"/ Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse, we don't seem to have an article for Justice Sean Ryan, Judge of the High Court (per http://www.childabusecommission.com/rpt/preface.php ), although we do have one for High Court judge Mary Laffoy. Sean Ryan is a disamb page; he is apparently not included there. Can someone please create a stub for him? I have not made a redlink for this because I have no idea what would be the best style to use for the article title. -- 201.37.230.43 ( talk) 14:08, 31 May 2009 (UTC)
There is currently a vote underway to rename an article which was originally 'British Military History' to 'Military history of the British Isles'. There are 5 options to choose from for the new article's title. You can vote for/against one/all here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Military_history_of_the_peoples_of_the_British_Islands#Poll_on_Article_Name 86.44.53.226 ( talk) 13:19, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
I am proposing to merge (and extensively edit) Primate of Ireland and Primate of All Ireland. I have opened a discussion here. Scolaire ( talk) 21:44, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
Input required:-
I've nominated these 2 articles for delation as recommended by mediator at
Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal/Cases/2009-05-6/Corrib Gas. Please have a look at the deletion debates if possible. The more input on this, the greater chance of consensus being reached.
GainLine
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12:54, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
An Irish Music task force has been set up to temporarily replace WikiProject Irish Music at Wikipedia:WikiProject Ireland/Irish Music. Full details can be found at either page. New users are urgently needed. -- FF3000 ( talk) 22:32, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
I would like to draw together articles and information on this important family in a more systematic way. At present Geraldines redirects to FitzGerald, which is essentially no more than a dab page. It is difficult to find individual FitzGeralds without knowing in advance exactly what you're looking for. I would like to expand the individual articles, and also have a "Geraldines" article that detailed the history of the FitzGeralds in a fairly comprensive way and linked to as many family members - Norman invaders, earls, rebels etc. - as practicable. If anybody is interested in getting invovlved please let me know on my talk page. Scolaire ( talk) 15:29, 6 June 2009 (UTC)
Hi guys. In my noobiness last month, I edited the pages of Oireachtas TDs with an external link to the new website www.kildarestreet.com (I am a mod on that website). For so doing, my original username (gavinsblog) was blocked indefinitely for alleged spamming. Partly my boo.
What I would like to suggest to the community is that an external link to KildareStreet profiles should be placed on the wikipedia profiles of all TDs and Senators. The KS profiles are both relevant and useful to anyone seeking information on a TD or Senator. For example Dermot Ahern TD. Notice the data, it allows anyone to sign up for and email alert whenever that TD speaks, and gives information on how often they speak in the Dail. It includes links back to their wiki profiles, as well as their election data history and official party website profiles.
KildareStreet is modelled on an API developed by mySociety and used on the British version, theyworkforyou.com. The wikipedia profiles of British MPs contain links to both theyworkforyou and publicwhip.org.uk (For example Tom_Watson_(politician)#External_links.
I am suggesting that all TD profiles contain links (as they already do to ElectionsIreland.org), to their Kildare Street profiles as well. The data is relevant, well presented, and importantly, Kildare Street is run as a not for profit, pro bono project, without ads. Anyone searching for information on their representatives would find an external link to KildareStreet beneficial.
Incidentally, the user who originally complained of link spamming has since accepted that was not my intention, and that adding links to KildareStreet has merit. -- gavinsblog1 ( talk) 17:57, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
Does Ireland have an "order of precedence" article like the United States order of precedence and all those contained at Template:Precedence? Would anyone like to create one if this is not the case or perhaps add a link if one is known? Thanks. -- can dle • wicke 16:22, 9 June 2009 (UTC)
I have thrown to together a Military history of Ireland articles as a consequence of developments on Military history of Britain. Please don't come to my page or write snappy edit comments, it was literally thrown together. This is partially deliberate, because I don't want to write too much too quick without out other people being involved. So please can other contribute/fix the article (I've already tagged it with the obvious problems).
Thanks, --rannṗáirtí anaiṫnid ( coṁrá) 13:08, 10 June 2009 (UTC)
A poll is on at the BI-taskforce to see whether a compromise can be reached over the usage of the term "British Isles", at Wikipedia:British_Isles_Terminology_task_force#Poll. Just incase you're interested. FF3000 ( talk) 22:19, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
Just to sort out an edit war at the Iceland (supermarket) page, we know that Iceland Ballyfermot reopened last November, but can someone please verify, is it still open? We need someone who lives in the area. FF3000 ( talk) 16:41, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
Are they notable enough for an article? There seem to be several... [2] [3] -- can dle • wicke 23:18, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
Hi, this one has been a recurring theme but the article needs some references. ~ R. T. G 22:38, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
County of Fingal, County of South Dublin, County of Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown, County of North Tipperary, County of South Tipperary. Why was "County of" added to these names?
Looking at the histories it seems on 7 February 2008:
Then on 22 May 2008:
I find all of these arguments weak, and the "County of" superfluous, annoying, and in conflict with WP:COMMONNAME.
jnestorius( talk) 21:49, 17 June 2009 (UTC)
Would someone near Dublin Airport like to photograph the headquarters of Aer Lingus and Ryanair? WhisperToMe ( talk) 05:33, 23 June 2009 (UTC)
At commons:File talk:Coat of arms of Ireland.svg we have some sources listed. Those sources present the Coat of arms of the Republic of Ireland with more detail than depicted in commons:File:Coat of arms of Ireland.svg. If anyone is interested to improve the file at commons to include those details, that would be great. I do not know how to insert those details. -- Imbris ( talk) 21:00, 25 June 2009 (UTC)
There are no subcategories in Category:Irish people by time period apart from those for the Medieval and Elizabethan periods. How about categories by century for the 16th 17th, 18th, 19th and perhaps 15th and 20th centuries as for most European countries eg Category:18th-century Scottish people Hugo999 ( talk) 01:45, 27 June 2009 (UTC)
I've requested a peer review of Christian Conventions. Please have a look at this highly improved article, and review its status. It is probably better than Start Class. We intend to nominate for GA once peer review is complete. -- Nemonoman ( talk) 04:33, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
Leprechaun has been nominated for a good article reassessment. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to good article quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status will be removed from the article. Reviewers' concerns are here.
I am proposing the creation of a new navigation box for the project, based on Template:WPAVIATION Navigation. I know that a navbox already exists, but I think that a better box is needed. FF3000 · talk 22:15, 15 July 2009 (UTC)
I promised myself never to revisit this series but they recently featured in the July 16 article quality assessment log. Numerous have been re-rated in importance from "low" to "mid" without any obvious reason. Even odder is that the talkpage histories appear to show the last change was actually done 2 years ago! We need to standardise this. Ww2 and SeoR; your attention is required! Sarah777 ( talk) 11:08, 19 July 2009 (UTC)
A template, Historical populations, has been added to a large number of Irish towns articles, showing population according to census returns from 1821 to 2006. As far as I can see this does not relate to anything in the articles themselves, and it is not IMO inherently interesting. It does, however, badly mess up the articles (see the discussion above on the problems caused by vertical infoboxes). I would like to see these templates gone. Scolaire ( talk) 10:31, 25 July 2009 (UTC)
As a returned user I don't see what the issue is the population templates. In the articles I have seen they look fine. In addition the issue of boundaries is in my view a red herring. All urban centres change their boundaries over time. But that does not stop historians using population numbers to gain a rough overall impression of population trends. In fact in many Irish towns the boundaries did not change over the 19th century because the declining population meant the urban centre did not spill over into the surrounding hinterland. I fully support their inclusion and see them as a useful addition. I have just seen on added to the page on a local town, and found it extremely useful as I am in the middle of some local history research and had yet to do that sort of analysis. The population numbers given will in of direct use to use in my research. FearÉIREANN\ (caint) 12:47, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
I'm bothered a bit by a few things here. While I think the data is of some interest, the use of multiple SPAs and refusal to join discussion makes it difficult to assume good faith. Specifically, each entry that I have looked at mentions four authors, only one of which is wikilinked. In addition, the co-author Joel Mokyr has a Wikipedia article, but is not wikilinked. If this goes on, we'll have potentially hundreds of poorly formatted articles and all with a redlink. I would suggest that we start reverting in order to force the editor to come clean on any potential conflict of interest, discuss the edits here and then re-add in a better formatted state. Thoughts? Nelson50 T 16:21, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
My apologies to everyone. It looks like I assumed too much WP:AGF in the case of this population junkie. Caught him using six new names last night and he was adding an open template to articles that already had a "closed" one. Definately borderline vandalism. Though his data seems accurate. Very strange. But enough is enough. Sarah777 ( talk) 08:45, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
Sarah777 ( talk) 08:48, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
Hi everyone. I've just stumbled across this controversy and thought I'd weight in. First, I think that the information this editor is adding is valid, seems to be accurate, and it is cited. Second, someone said above that they personally didn't find it interesting, but that's POV. (My own POV is that it is interesting, as it happens.) Third, it is a bit odd that the editor is not communicating and seems to be using sock puppets, but that's an etiquette issue which I don't think invalidates the edits themselves. Maybe they're unaware that people are trying to communicate with them, it's not like wiki gives an email every time someone edits your talk page, is it? I think it's a bit presumptuous to assume that they are 'refusing' to communicate, we really should assume good faith here. Let's not get into a witch hunt or jump to conclusions about this person's intentions, it's not like they're setting out to vandalise anything, and this is a good contribution to wiki which probably only needs a bit of an aesthetic cleanup. $0.02 -- Eamonnca1 ( talk) 20:03, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
He's at it again.....at Ferns, County Wexford:
Sarah777 ( talk) 07:44, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
Some might be interested in the section "Article move to RTÉ" on the talk page. -- can dle • wicke 19:11, 25 July 2009 (UTC)
I am investigating the possibility of setting up a Wikimedia chapter in Ireland. Such a task would be non-trivial and would involve legal and financial obligations.
A "critical mass" of editors (10—20 min.) willing to be active members of the chapter is required before the formation of a chapter. I would be grateful if those interested in establishing an Irish chapter would participate in discussion of such at Talk:Wikimedia Ireland on Meta.
Editors with legal qualifications would be of particular help, even if they are unwilling to be active members of such a chapter in future. --rannṗáirtí anaiṫnid ( coṁrá) 21:35, 26 July 2009 (UTC)
Just wondering - looking at this edit - [6] Irish tennis players such as Joshua Pim (his family had a department store on George's Street) had the tricolour beside their names, this was changed to St Patrick's Cross - and now its the Union Jack - just wondering - have we a position? are there precedents? ClemMcGann ( talk) 02:24, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
![]() | This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
Archive 5 | ← | Archive 7 | Archive 8 | Archive 9 | Archive 10 | Archive 11 | → | Archive 15 |
Re Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse (recent news story in Ireland): The coverage of this that I'm seeing in the general press seems to emphasize that this is a " Catholic Church" issue. Our article hardly mentions the Catholic Church. We want to make sure that our article is NPOV and neither over-emphasizes nor under-emphasizes the facts. -- 201.37.230.43 ( talk) 16:49, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
I have nominated Samuel Beckett for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Cirt ( talk) 06:24, 22 May 2009 (UTC)
I don't think it's right to have the article British Isles under WikiProject Ireland seeing as it is an insult to our country to have it under the heading "British". I have complained about the name on Talk:British Isles, and I'm proposing we have a vote by WikiProject Ireland members only, as to whether we should remove the article from the scope of this WikiProject, in protest.-- FF3000 ( talk) 21:20, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
I agree. I've never heard an Irish person use this politically motivated term. 86.44.53.226 ( talk) 14:57, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
The term 'British Isles is not a political term but geographic. It seems to be thought of as political only by the Irish - similar, possibly, to New Zealanders not being too happy with 'Australasia'. 93.107.139.186 ( talk) 09:07, 22 December 2009 (UTC)
WikiProject Irish Music is in a sorry state. I'm trying to knock new life into it, but if other users don't contribute it will probably have to be merged into WikiProject Ireland. Please join if you can, it's already listed as inactive.-- FF3000 ( talk) 17:12, 28 May 2009 (UTC)
I have reviewed Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh for GA Sweeps to determine if it still qualifies as a Good Article. In reviewing the article I have found several issues, which I have detailed here. Since the article falls under the scope of this project, I figured you would be interested in contributing to further improve the article. Please comment there to help the article maintain its GA status. If you have any questions, let me know on my talk page and I'll get back to you as soon as I can. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 ( talk • contrib) 02:21, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
Re the "Ryan Report"/ Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse, we don't seem to have an article for Justice Sean Ryan, Judge of the High Court (per http://www.childabusecommission.com/rpt/preface.php ), although we do have one for High Court judge Mary Laffoy. Sean Ryan is a disamb page; he is apparently not included there. Can someone please create a stub for him? I have not made a redlink for this because I have no idea what would be the best style to use for the article title. -- 201.37.230.43 ( talk) 14:08, 31 May 2009 (UTC)
There is currently a vote underway to rename an article which was originally 'British Military History' to 'Military history of the British Isles'. There are 5 options to choose from for the new article's title. You can vote for/against one/all here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Military_history_of_the_peoples_of_the_British_Islands#Poll_on_Article_Name 86.44.53.226 ( talk) 13:19, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
I am proposing to merge (and extensively edit) Primate of Ireland and Primate of All Ireland. I have opened a discussion here. Scolaire ( talk) 21:44, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
Input required:-
I've nominated these 2 articles for delation as recommended by mediator at
Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal/Cases/2009-05-6/Corrib Gas. Please have a look at the deletion debates if possible. The more input on this, the greater chance of consensus being reached.
GainLine
♠
♥
12:54, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
An Irish Music task force has been set up to temporarily replace WikiProject Irish Music at Wikipedia:WikiProject Ireland/Irish Music. Full details can be found at either page. New users are urgently needed. -- FF3000 ( talk) 22:32, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
I would like to draw together articles and information on this important family in a more systematic way. At present Geraldines redirects to FitzGerald, which is essentially no more than a dab page. It is difficult to find individual FitzGeralds without knowing in advance exactly what you're looking for. I would like to expand the individual articles, and also have a "Geraldines" article that detailed the history of the FitzGeralds in a fairly comprensive way and linked to as many family members - Norman invaders, earls, rebels etc. - as practicable. If anybody is interested in getting invovlved please let me know on my talk page. Scolaire ( talk) 15:29, 6 June 2009 (UTC)
Hi guys. In my noobiness last month, I edited the pages of Oireachtas TDs with an external link to the new website www.kildarestreet.com (I am a mod on that website). For so doing, my original username (gavinsblog) was blocked indefinitely for alleged spamming. Partly my boo.
What I would like to suggest to the community is that an external link to KildareStreet profiles should be placed on the wikipedia profiles of all TDs and Senators. The KS profiles are both relevant and useful to anyone seeking information on a TD or Senator. For example Dermot Ahern TD. Notice the data, it allows anyone to sign up for and email alert whenever that TD speaks, and gives information on how often they speak in the Dail. It includes links back to their wiki profiles, as well as their election data history and official party website profiles.
KildareStreet is modelled on an API developed by mySociety and used on the British version, theyworkforyou.com. The wikipedia profiles of British MPs contain links to both theyworkforyou and publicwhip.org.uk (For example Tom_Watson_(politician)#External_links.
I am suggesting that all TD profiles contain links (as they already do to ElectionsIreland.org), to their Kildare Street profiles as well. The data is relevant, well presented, and importantly, Kildare Street is run as a not for profit, pro bono project, without ads. Anyone searching for information on their representatives would find an external link to KildareStreet beneficial.
Incidentally, the user who originally complained of link spamming has since accepted that was not my intention, and that adding links to KildareStreet has merit. -- gavinsblog1 ( talk) 17:57, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
Does Ireland have an "order of precedence" article like the United States order of precedence and all those contained at Template:Precedence? Would anyone like to create one if this is not the case or perhaps add a link if one is known? Thanks. -- can dle • wicke 16:22, 9 June 2009 (UTC)
I have thrown to together a Military history of Ireland articles as a consequence of developments on Military history of Britain. Please don't come to my page or write snappy edit comments, it was literally thrown together. This is partially deliberate, because I don't want to write too much too quick without out other people being involved. So please can other contribute/fix the article (I've already tagged it with the obvious problems).
Thanks, --rannṗáirtí anaiṫnid ( coṁrá) 13:08, 10 June 2009 (UTC)
A poll is on at the BI-taskforce to see whether a compromise can be reached over the usage of the term "British Isles", at Wikipedia:British_Isles_Terminology_task_force#Poll. Just incase you're interested. FF3000 ( talk) 22:19, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
Just to sort out an edit war at the Iceland (supermarket) page, we know that Iceland Ballyfermot reopened last November, but can someone please verify, is it still open? We need someone who lives in the area. FF3000 ( talk) 16:41, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
Are they notable enough for an article? There seem to be several... [2] [3] -- can dle • wicke 23:18, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
Hi, this one has been a recurring theme but the article needs some references. ~ R. T. G 22:38, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
County of Fingal, County of South Dublin, County of Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown, County of North Tipperary, County of South Tipperary. Why was "County of" added to these names?
Looking at the histories it seems on 7 February 2008:
Then on 22 May 2008:
I find all of these arguments weak, and the "County of" superfluous, annoying, and in conflict with WP:COMMONNAME.
jnestorius( talk) 21:49, 17 June 2009 (UTC)
Would someone near Dublin Airport like to photograph the headquarters of Aer Lingus and Ryanair? WhisperToMe ( talk) 05:33, 23 June 2009 (UTC)
At commons:File talk:Coat of arms of Ireland.svg we have some sources listed. Those sources present the Coat of arms of the Republic of Ireland with more detail than depicted in commons:File:Coat of arms of Ireland.svg. If anyone is interested to improve the file at commons to include those details, that would be great. I do not know how to insert those details. -- Imbris ( talk) 21:00, 25 June 2009 (UTC)
There are no subcategories in Category:Irish people by time period apart from those for the Medieval and Elizabethan periods. How about categories by century for the 16th 17th, 18th, 19th and perhaps 15th and 20th centuries as for most European countries eg Category:18th-century Scottish people Hugo999 ( talk) 01:45, 27 June 2009 (UTC)
I've requested a peer review of Christian Conventions. Please have a look at this highly improved article, and review its status. It is probably better than Start Class. We intend to nominate for GA once peer review is complete. -- Nemonoman ( talk) 04:33, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
Leprechaun has been nominated for a good article reassessment. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to good article quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status will be removed from the article. Reviewers' concerns are here.
I am proposing the creation of a new navigation box for the project, based on Template:WPAVIATION Navigation. I know that a navbox already exists, but I think that a better box is needed. FF3000 · talk 22:15, 15 July 2009 (UTC)
I promised myself never to revisit this series but they recently featured in the July 16 article quality assessment log. Numerous have been re-rated in importance from "low" to "mid" without any obvious reason. Even odder is that the talkpage histories appear to show the last change was actually done 2 years ago! We need to standardise this. Ww2 and SeoR; your attention is required! Sarah777 ( talk) 11:08, 19 July 2009 (UTC)
A template, Historical populations, has been added to a large number of Irish towns articles, showing population according to census returns from 1821 to 2006. As far as I can see this does not relate to anything in the articles themselves, and it is not IMO inherently interesting. It does, however, badly mess up the articles (see the discussion above on the problems caused by vertical infoboxes). I would like to see these templates gone. Scolaire ( talk) 10:31, 25 July 2009 (UTC)
As a returned user I don't see what the issue is the population templates. In the articles I have seen they look fine. In addition the issue of boundaries is in my view a red herring. All urban centres change their boundaries over time. But that does not stop historians using population numbers to gain a rough overall impression of population trends. In fact in many Irish towns the boundaries did not change over the 19th century because the declining population meant the urban centre did not spill over into the surrounding hinterland. I fully support their inclusion and see them as a useful addition. I have just seen on added to the page on a local town, and found it extremely useful as I am in the middle of some local history research and had yet to do that sort of analysis. The population numbers given will in of direct use to use in my research. FearÉIREANN\ (caint) 12:47, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
I'm bothered a bit by a few things here. While I think the data is of some interest, the use of multiple SPAs and refusal to join discussion makes it difficult to assume good faith. Specifically, each entry that I have looked at mentions four authors, only one of which is wikilinked. In addition, the co-author Joel Mokyr has a Wikipedia article, but is not wikilinked. If this goes on, we'll have potentially hundreds of poorly formatted articles and all with a redlink. I would suggest that we start reverting in order to force the editor to come clean on any potential conflict of interest, discuss the edits here and then re-add in a better formatted state. Thoughts? Nelson50 T 16:21, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
My apologies to everyone. It looks like I assumed too much WP:AGF in the case of this population junkie. Caught him using six new names last night and he was adding an open template to articles that already had a "closed" one. Definately borderline vandalism. Though his data seems accurate. Very strange. But enough is enough. Sarah777 ( talk) 08:45, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
Sarah777 ( talk) 08:48, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
Hi everyone. I've just stumbled across this controversy and thought I'd weight in. First, I think that the information this editor is adding is valid, seems to be accurate, and it is cited. Second, someone said above that they personally didn't find it interesting, but that's POV. (My own POV is that it is interesting, as it happens.) Third, it is a bit odd that the editor is not communicating and seems to be using sock puppets, but that's an etiquette issue which I don't think invalidates the edits themselves. Maybe they're unaware that people are trying to communicate with them, it's not like wiki gives an email every time someone edits your talk page, is it? I think it's a bit presumptuous to assume that they are 'refusing' to communicate, we really should assume good faith here. Let's not get into a witch hunt or jump to conclusions about this person's intentions, it's not like they're setting out to vandalise anything, and this is a good contribution to wiki which probably only needs a bit of an aesthetic cleanup. $0.02 -- Eamonnca1 ( talk) 20:03, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
He's at it again.....at Ferns, County Wexford:
Sarah777 ( talk) 07:44, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
Some might be interested in the section "Article move to RTÉ" on the talk page. -- can dle • wicke 19:11, 25 July 2009 (UTC)
I am investigating the possibility of setting up a Wikimedia chapter in Ireland. Such a task would be non-trivial and would involve legal and financial obligations.
A "critical mass" of editors (10—20 min.) willing to be active members of the chapter is required before the formation of a chapter. I would be grateful if those interested in establishing an Irish chapter would participate in discussion of such at Talk:Wikimedia Ireland on Meta.
Editors with legal qualifications would be of particular help, even if they are unwilling to be active members of such a chapter in future. --rannṗáirtí anaiṫnid ( coṁrá) 21:35, 26 July 2009 (UTC)
Just wondering - looking at this edit - [6] Irish tennis players such as Joshua Pim (his family had a department store on George's Street) had the tricolour beside their names, this was changed to St Patrick's Cross - and now its the Union Jack - just wondering - have we a position? are there precedents? ClemMcGann ( talk) 02:24, 28 July 2009 (UTC)