User talk:Canaen

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Canaen is constantly busy in real life, and may not respond swiftly to queries.

In the spirit of "I may not agree with what you have say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it," I've created this page, for dated nonsense which I don't particularly want to look over repeatedly. Chances are, it's not worth reading.

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Contents 1 Help 2 Clan Fraser 3 No images in signatures, please 4 Adoption 5 Admin 6 Your signature

[edit] Help

Hi, ages ago I spoke to you about the Clan Fraser article. Anyway I have recently been banned from wiki for uploading images with the incorrect copyright status. I need another user to unban me. If you could do so I would appreciate it. My username is User:Mjgm84 Thanks, 195.137.109.177 13:00, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Hi User:Mjgm84, I do not have the ability to unban you. Only administrators can do that, unless it's a permanent ban. In that case, I would advise you to first take a break from Wikipedia, then familarize yourself with our policies on copyrighted media (i.e. that we do not use copyrighted material). After this, you may either talk to the administrator who banned you about how you would go about getting your account back, or make a new account, and then continue contributing to Wikipedia without infringing on copyright laws. Canæn 00:43, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Clan Fraser

Great article - you've done a lot of work on it. I had a quick look and amended the headings. WP:MOS is quite clear that unless they are a proper noun all but the first word should be lower case. Don't know why and I think it looks weird but there you go. Also, the <ref> mark should be placed without a space after the text. I've fixed a few and there are probably more. WP:CITE provides guidelines for the refs. They suggest e.g. Grant, Neil (1987) Scottish Clans and Tartans. New York. Crescent Books. There appears to be a bit of leeway on this and I doubt the form you use would be a big problem for a GA, although I suspect it would for FA. (Ref 17's format is dodgy btw and there are stray quotes in 4, 18,19, 20 etc.). It's all a bit footery but I don't make the rules. I am not an historian but the article is without question GA standard in my view. Whether its approaching FA I don't know, but a weakness is the lack of references more than the content I would have thought. (For example Origins is un-referenced, as is the poem composed at Auldearn (just noticed it's spelled wrongly in the article). For FA status just about every fact should have a ref. You should use the <ref name=> tag so that JR Harper is not displayed umpteen times. (See e.g. Mingulay for examples). I will come back and have another gander at the content asap. In the meantime the only things I noticed are that the Lead paras need attention and that Keith is in Moray not East Lothian - and the sentences there seem to be mixed up. User:AndyZ's amazing auto peer review is a great help on this sort of thing if you can get it to work. Ben MacDui (Talk) 11:56, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

A few more notes: 1253 'A copy of this charter may be found here'. Not sure why but I think this should be a footnote or a 'See also', not in the main text. It's possibly a matter of taste but there are too many red links for my liking. Clan wars: how were they 'Prevented from battle by the Earl of Argyll'? 'Robert was also a faithful friend of Mary' - redundant sentence? Black Aurther Forbes - sp? I know who Bonnie Dundee is but not all readers will and a brief phrase of introduction would be useful. 'The infamous Simon the Fox was also chief.' Why also? 'the Lovat estates were transferred, by entail' I don't know what this means, and I think it should be explained or have a link to somewhere that does this. 'When Simon the Pater's descendants first acquired the Lovat lands of the Ard' - who is he? Aird? 'There is, of course, some cross-over of opinions, Frasers tend to respect each other as fellow Frasers, regardless of where they come from.' Although this too is my experience its the sort of remark that is likely to get a {fact} tag. Distinguished Frasers - if you are sure they are all descendants of Clan Fraser, as opposed to their inferior Lowland cousins I think you should say so. (If they are not so descended they should be removed). Also, whilst I enjoyed the list I suspect that WP:MOS doesn't like lists. Well you did ask! Ben MacDui (Talk) 15:53, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] No images in signatures, please

You are using an image in your signature. The guidelines at WP:SIG prohibit this quite sternly. As a compromise, I offer you this CSS construct:✕ —dgies^t_c 19:02, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for your concern, Dgies. I am well aware of the guidlines of WP:SIG, and I must stress to you that they are simply that; guidelines. They are not law. As such, they merely suggest that signatures should be without images, to prevent long load times. The flags I use are part of a set of very small images, uploaded to the Wikipedia specifically for the purpose of being placed in sigantures. This is Wikipedia, not the Military. If you want to press the matter, I may envoke WP:IAR, which, I might note, is an official policy. Canæn 08:58, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

I'm not going to make a formal complaint, I just wanted to point out a no-no. This is the last you'll hear on it. —dgies^t_c 15:54, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Adoption

I would love to be adopted. My email address is Special:Emailuser/Alec1990 (Please forgive me if im not allowed to put my email address on) if you want to give me some things to do for me to learn or you can leave them on my talk page :-) Thanks Alec1990 18:54, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Admin

Hello. Long time no see. I came across your name at Wikipedia:Admin coaching/Requests. I'm assuming that you never got an answer. If you're looking for an admin who could give you a quick rundown, try User:Dave souza. Dave's an admin, and been one for a while, although not one of the most hyperactive ones. Don't say I sent you. Angus McLellan (Talk) 00:58, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks Angus. I really didn't get any response besides an attempt at mass admin coaching by User:TheTranshumanist. I will ask him about it. Canæn 01:13, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

Hi, Angus dropped me a note about this – it must be admitted that I've pretty much been hyperUNDERactive in terms of adminning, but am willing to do what I can on the understanding that a fair bit of my time is committed to other projects, and it'll involve me learning from the course at the same time: see Wikipedia:Admin coaching/Coaching methods for ideas about the course (which is new to me), and note the standard conditions. that you...

1. don't go for your RfA or accept an RfA nomination until I think you are ready.
2. take the advice provided by me and your fellow students to heart (this will be a group effort)

Before going any further, it'll be a good idea to decide what you want the janitor's tools for, and get going on related tasks. From your recent contributions, it's not too obvious: have a look at WP:RFA for the sort of questioning candidates get, and what sort of previous contributions are expected. Maybe time for me to see what I can learn from TheTranshumanist. By the way, I make no claims to be a Celt or a Gael, but am Scots. .. orrabest, dave souza, talk 16:05, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

That sounds perfectly reasonable. The most important thing about the janitors tools for me is this: While I primarily work on the Clan Fraser article, and am hoping to get started improving some other Clan articles, I also watch a great many other articles related to WP:SCO, and would love to be able to revert vandalism more efficiently.

I'm just proud of the Gaelic bits of me, that's all. Being American doesn't exactly give you a lot of heritage to be proud of, hah. All of us from the Isles are the descendants of neolithic hunter-gatherers, anyway. : ) Slainte, Canæn 23:06, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

Right. As "wan o' Brutain's hardy sons" (to cite Para Handy) I'm still a bit tied up with the British Isles, but here's my initial suggestion. In WP:RFA evidence of anti-vandal activity is commonly requested, and as it happens I've recently pinched this advice about Wikipedia:Cleaning up vandalism (which gives a lot of useful advice) :
Be sure to put warning tags on the vandal's user talk page (such as {{subst:test}}, {{subst:test2}}, {{subst:test3}}, {{subst:test4}}). [actually, shiny new tags are recommended at Wikipedia:Vandalism.] Add each of these tags on the vandal's talk page, in sequential order, after each instance of vandalism. Adding warnings to the talk page assists administrators in determining whether or not the user should be blocked. If the user continues to vandalize pages after you add the {{subst:test4}} tag, request administrator assistance at Request for Intervention.

To practice it would be good to try out Wikipedia:Recent changes patrol – that page also gives lots of instructions. You'll note that Rollback scripts give you access to several admin tools without having to be an admin, and that there are tools available to help to automate the process. Another aspect is Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion which sets out the process for tagging / reporting articles which you think should be deleted. Try to follow processes through to requesting admin assistance, and it's also worthwhile looking in at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion and joining discussions – meta discussions are often considered in RfA discussions.

As for the Americas, it's rather annoying but your lands seem to have been inhabited long before there's evidence of habitation here – prehistoric Scotland only seems to have become habitable around 9600 BC, though perhaps evidence of earlier inhabitants was removed by the ice ages. So take pride in that past too! .. dave souza, talk 12:35, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Your signature

Just a quick note- it is the general consensus that people sould not use images in signatures. Have a read of this to see why. J Milburn 23:44, 14 March 2007 (UTC)