User talk:Mabuska/Archive 42012/January

GOCE 2011 Year-End Report

Guild of Copy Editors 2011 Year-End Report We have reached the end of the year, and what a year it has been! The Guild of Copy Editors was full of activity, and we achieved numerous important milestones in 2011. Read all about these in the Guild's 2011 Year-End Report. Highlights Membership grows to 764 editors, an increase of 261 Report on coordinators' elections Around 1,000 articles removed through six Backlog elimination drives Guild Plans for 2012 Requests page report Sign up for the January 2012 Backlog elimination drive! Get your copy of the Guild's 2011 Year-End Report here On behalf of the Guild, we take this opportunity to wish you Season's Greetings and Happy New Year. We look forward to your support in 2012! – Your 2011 Coordinators: Diannaa (lead), The Utahraptor, and Slon02 and SMasters (emeritus).

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Of your interest

I found this [1] lovely piece of POV in Culture of Northern Ireland , an IP hopping editor had put it in another editor had already drawn attention to it [2]. I have been trawling through articles to do with Republic counties where he may have made edits , I raised it on the IMOS talk page but as I know this is usually your area I thaught would give you shout to keep your eye on it. If you see any more give me a shout on my talk page . Thanks. Murry1975 (talk) 02:16, 4 January 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads-up. I can see what you mean, however i would like to add that the example you provided whilst being entirely original research does contain some valid points, such as Donegal economic migrants to Londonderry, yet they are all unsourced and quite possibly irrelevant to the article. Mabuska ^(talk) 22:23, 4 January 2012 (UTC)

Yes mainly irrelevant, the editor had it pointed out to him by the reverts and edit summary on them. A shame that an editor who feels so passionate about these things cant join in, find sources and help with Wiki. BTW there is a long running discussion on nationality of historic Irish figures on IMOS at the moment that could use your level-headedness. Murry1975 (talk) 22:42, 4 January 2012 (UTC)

I've already been involved in it i think. That is an issue that'll be hard to get a reasonable for all sides result especially as some editors want all such historic figures to be simply Irish at the expense of other terms such as British, Anglo-Irish etc. which may be just as valid and suitable. It's quite muddy waters. Mabuska ^(talk) 14:48, 5 January 2012 (UTC)

Dont blame you bud for steering clear. Yes it all, in my opinion is determined by how they were notable whether it was gained in Irish , Anglo-Irish or British circles and what they were identified by at this time, already got two barrels for stating I believe Wellington to be British!! Take care.Murry1975 (talk) 18:06, 5 January 2012 (UTC)

I argued a month back in that part of the discussion how it makes sense to call him that considering his entire background, British Army Field Marshall and Prime Minister and all that...Mabuska ^(talk) 23:14, 5 January 2012 (UTC)

Notice of discussion at the Administrators' Noticeboard

Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding the block of Sheodred and the behavior of MarcusBritish. Thank you. --RA (talk) 20:10, 8 January 2012 (UTC)

Picts

Please look at January 2012 and archive 4. I was a little confused, because I am new with this stuffRomeinsekeizer (talk) 15:02, 20 January 2012 (UTC)

One tip is - don't add new comments into archived discussions, instead post them here on the talk page. I'll re-add it here for you:

About "Lex Ritman, Eric de Noorman en Erwin de Noorman, Antoninus Pius, Den Haag (2003)": this is not a comic book . I know that, because I wrote the book myself. It is about the reality in the comic strips "Eric de Noorman" and "Erwin de Noorman". In the comic strips are many drawings with brochs, Picts and Pictish symbols. That is why it is mentioned. You see the Scottish (Pictish) landscape with drawings (Mousa Broch and Jarlshof, etc.) and text concerning the Picts. Be so kind to restore it. See: reference. Kind regards, Lex Ritman. P.S. The comic strip is done by Hans G. Kresse. He got the Prix Alfred for it.Romeinsekeizer (talk) 14:52, 20 January 2012 (UTC)

If you check the articles edit history you will see that i did not remove it. Instead it was User:Catfish Jim and the soapdish as is proved here. Mabuska ^(talk) 10:35, 22 January 2012 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of File:Mormeal.png

A tag has been placed on File:Mormeal.png requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section F1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the image is an unused redundant copy (all pixels the same or scaled down) of an image in the same file format, which is on Wikipedia (not on Commons), and all inward links have been updated.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, contest the deletion by clicking on the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion". Doing so will take you to the talk page where you will find a pre-formatted place for you to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. You can also visit the page's talk page directly to give your reasons, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page meets the criterion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the page that would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Mabuska ^(talk) 14:33, 31 January 2012 (UTC)