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[edit] Hello

Thanks for the welcome. Im taking refuge from the usual bulletin boards and probably wont be returning to them. Wiki looks like a more useful way to spend time. Im impressed with your articles on the Chief of Staffs. Im still getting the hang of wiki but plan some articles of my own. The first will be on the electoral results of RSF candidates in the 26 county local elections from 1991. I also want to do a chronology of the activites of the Continuity IRA and maybe expand the Fianna Eireann article. Im looking forward to getting started! As ever keep in touch!—The preceding unsigned comment was added by AlanMc (talk • contribs).

[edit] Donnchadh blocked for personal attack on you

Donnchadh has been blocked from editing WP for his vicious personal attack on you at the RSF talk page. The comment has also been deleted. FearÉIREANN\(caint) 19:15, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

email me with the details. I'll block the user immediately. Doing that is quite simply harrassment. FearÉIREANN\(caint) 21:10, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

I meant to mention: that account is now blocked indefinitely and is protected so that it cannot be used by the creator ever again. I was going to delete it, but then I realised that if I did that I would be allowing its recreation in the future. This way it just sits there, unused and forgotten about, like hundreds of thousands of others, with no-one but you, I and the creator actually knowing its significance. If I find the creator of it they will be blocked instantly and permanently from the Wikipedia site. That sort of behaviour is just not on, and has been prohibited by the Arbitration Committee. I hope this helps. (Sorry I could not act earlier. My email accounts were acting up. I couldn't access them to read your email.) FearÉIREANN\(caint) 00:55, 26 June 2006 (UTC)


You might want to look at British Isles. A group of individuals are trying to push the myth that there is nothing wrong with the term, no-one is offended by it and any Irish people who are don't realise that it is a geographic term with no political implications or presumptions. FearÉIREANN\(caint) 17:15, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

Donnchadh is back as Seán1905 and is vandalising the Republican Sinn Féin article again.--padraig3uk 21:39, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
Could you revert the Republican Sinn Féin article, as there at it again, I think its Risteard this time.--padraig3uk 23:47, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] (The) Workers Party

Of course the "The" should be included in a title, if that is the correct name of the organisation. In that case the name is a proper name and thus should remain altered - see Wikipedia:Naming conventions (definite and indefinite articles at beginning of name). As regards The Workers Party, I moved it to that title because that is how the name was rendered in the party's logo; although as padraig3uk mentions on the talk page, perhaps The Workers' Party of Ireland would be more correct. I can't tell as I can't find an official register of ROI parties online. (This wasn't really a recent move, by the way.) --Kwekubo 22:13, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

They are at it again at British Isles. *sigh* FearÉIREANN\(caint) 22:08, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] OIRA chief of staff

Even if the OIRA isn't defunct,I doubt that Sean Garland became chief of staff in 1998.There isnt even a source for this.Dermo69

There is a source, and I've provided same on the article. A national newspaper to me has more credibility on the matter than your good self.--Damac 22:41, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

Sorry where is the source in the article.I'm not arguing with you now,im just asking where the source is.Dermo69

[edit] Tommy Savage

I noticed that a post asking for information on Tommy Savage, an Irishman arrested in Greece and convicted, after extradition on fast track from the Netherlands, was deleted. I have also been very concerned about this case and would very much apreciate any kind of news or contact information, that might lead to him or to anyone close to him. I know his former girlfriend, although no longer have any contact with or news from her, but I don't want to post her name here in order not to invade their privacy. I've also got to know the fine man in person and hold him on a high level of consideration. In fact I consider him to be my friend.--Advogados 07:26, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

I don't know the man and have never met him. He has been convicted and is serving his sentence in Korydallos Prison. Staff at the Irish Embassy in Athens were in contact with him during his trial, and I'll try to get a contact address for him from them. I'm not sure about posting it here though. Could you not set up a proper Wikipedia account and I can then email you the details. I'm not sure whether we should be discussing such information on a public forum.--Damac 06:56, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

Dear Sir, Thank you very much for your prompt response. I've set an account, as you can see. I am very sorry if my post is in any way inadequate. Anyway, I would very much appreciate any help on the matter concerned.--Advogados 07:26, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Nikolaos Michaloliakos

It seems that you are an expert in Greek far right politics. Maybe you can create an article about Nikolaos Michaloliakos, a leading personality (and perhaps the creator) of the Greek neo-nazi movement. Please reply on my talk page. Thanks Mitsos 13:52, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

OK I m sorry, I just saw the article about Zafiropoulos and I thought that there should be an article about Michaloliakos who is much more important. I speak Greek but my English aren't so good. Anyway, maybe I 'm going to write something in the future. Michaloliakos is the leader of hrisi avgi. Of course I 'm not user 87..., I like skrewdriver but I don't vandalize pages. If I did so, I wouldn't be a registered user. Mitsos 10:22, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Greek Local Elections

In the article you created about the upcoming local elections in Greece I noticed you have seperate templates for the super-prefecture of Athens-Piraeus and for the Prefectures of Athens and Piraues.
First of all, the Ministry of Interior publishes official election results only for the super-prefecture. It will not thus be easy to find seperate results for the two sub-perfectures. After all, seperate results donot matter, because the two prefects (of Piraeus and Athens) are elected according to the general results of the super-prefecture. If Pipili takes more votes that Sgouros in Athens and Gennimata takes more votes than Dinopoulos in the super-perfecture, Sgouros will become prefect! That is why, in Greek local elections, 2002 I merged the two prefectures under the super-perfecture. But this is just a suggestion ...
I also remind you that there is also another super-prefecture (Rhodope-Evros), but I donot know the current candidates!--Yannismarou 10:52, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

Hi Yannismarou. I'm not an expert in Greek politics as you know. I made separate listings for the super-prefectures and prefectures as I wanted to mention the candidates in each. Maybe these should stay, and you could add in details on how the prefects are elected in the introduction.
As stated on the page, the article is a stub and there are plenty of super-prefectures, prefectures and municipalities to be included. Some of the political parties have all their candidates listed, so if I get the time, I'll try and include them.
In general, there are a few things I'd like to do with Greek politics and elections (metadata, party colours, etc). Would you be interested in collaborating? --Damac 11:10, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
Whenever I have time, I'll be glad to help.--Yannismarou 11:13, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
Hi again! I also added some information about the local election and the electoral system in Elections in Greece. I'd be grateful, if you check the language, whenever you have the appropriate time. I also plan to add some information concerning the European Parliament Elections.--Yannismarou 12:40, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
No sooner said than done. Thanks for clearing up how the electoral system works! I'm about to upload a complete list of parties and results for the 1999 European elections in Greece, just in case that year was one of the polls you were going to work on. Μένεις στην Αθήνα; Best regards, --Damac 13:07, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
Τώρα ναι! Αλλά φεύγω σε καμιά βδομάδα για διακοπές! Τα λέμε!--Yannismarou 07:52, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Irish House of Commons

Keep up the good work on the Irish House of Commons. That is one thing I am coming to really love about Wikipedia. Forget the articles. It is often the detail information that is so impressive; the lists of every TD elected since 1919, etc. And now the list of IHOC sessions. It is in this area that WP trouces all the opposition. FearÉIREANN\(caint) 23:09, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

I agree! Great work!
As per the discussion on Talk:Irish House of Commons#Merge_proposal, why don't you go ahead and implement your excellent suggestion to rename these constituencies from XX (Irish Parliament constituency) to XX (Parliament of Ireland constituency)?
It's much less ambiguous: your form of name makes it very clear which institution the article refers to, but the existing form of name could refer to any Parliament to which mebers were returned from Irealnd, and that's a long list (Irish Parl, UK Parl, HOc NI, HoC SI, Dail Eireann). It'll be easier if you do it now before you create more links! :) --BrownHairedGirl 13:28, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
Will do. I've made some more proposals at Talk:Irish House of Commons.--Damac 14:01, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
See my reply there. --BrownHairedGirl 14:21, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Constit moves

Hang on, see rely on my talk. --BrownHairedGirl 16:04, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Lords

See Wikipedia:Naming conventions (names and titles)#Other non-royal names, number 6. For individuals known from birth as "Lord X" (i.e., younger sons of dukes and marquesses), "Lord" in the name is perfectly appropriate. See for instance Lord Edward FitzGerald. Choess 20:36, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Greek and Turkish wikipedians board of cooperation proposal removed

Hello, I'm contacting you to let you know that I have withdrown the proposal for wikiproject Greek and Turkish wikipedians board of cooperation as so much time has passed in inaction, I am no longer interested in it and I don't have any time to spare for it. I regret to take this step unilateraly as there are some 16 people who had showed interest, but the whole thing has been inactive for too long in my opinion. Thanks for showing your initial interest anyway!! Keep up the good wiki-work! --Michalis Famelis (talk) 18:08, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Rashid Facha

I've added the "{{prod}}" template to the article Rashid Facha, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but I don't believe it satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and I've explained why in the deletion notice (see also Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not and Wikipedia:Notability). Please either work to improve the article if the topic is worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia, or, if you disagree, discuss the issues raised at Talk:Rashid Facha. If you remove the {{dated prod}} template, the article will not be deleted, but note that it may still be sent to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. Erechtheus 23:53, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Irish parliament

Dia Dhuit,

Thanks for your kind comments re MP in irish parliament. I have become aware that Queens University Belfast published a 10 volume guide to the old Irish Parliament which I presume has all the MPs elections etc. This being so are there copyright issues if the same information is reproduced? Durrus 10:53, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

You might be interested in a RM going on at talk:Prime minister (sic). Some individuals moved the page to that ridiculous name (if it stays at that form WP will be a laughing stock!) Feel free to contribute to the debate if you wish. FearÉIREANN\(caint) 23:38, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Greek history project

Hi! Πώς είσαι; Βρίσκεσαι στην Ελλάδα τώρα; Έκανες διακοπές;

In my Userpage I expressed my thoughts about not having any Wiki-project working on Greek topics, while users from other countries are far more active. User:Argos'Dad read my thoughts and expressed his interest in participating in a project concerning the Greek history. Check User talk:Yannismarou/Thoughts. After that response I went through history projects in Wikipedia. There aren't many of them, but I think it is an interesting idea and I hope it will not be difficult to recruit members.
I think we could use as a model Wikipedia:WikiProject History of India. Have a look, when you have time. I believe that, if we decide it, during the Weekend I can start setting the page of the Wikiproject. And then we must start recruiting and organizing (main goals, plans, templates, priorities, rating article, possibly peer-reviewing-I like peer-reviewing articles!, ways of collaboration, topics, possible task forces [ancient, medieval, modern Greece] etc.).
What do you think about ? Are you interesting in participating ? Do you think we can recruit members? If I start the page in the next 2-3 days may I count on you?--Yannismarou 18:07, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Joe McKelvey

Thanks for the date change. Slip of the pen, so to speak! Jdorney 07:37, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:WikiProject History of Greece

Γεια σοτυ! I created the page of the project! In (Wikipedia talk:WikiProject History of Greece) you'll see what I've done and what is left to be done according to my opinion. I tried to set a basic plan of work, but I was very tired to go into details. Right now I feel exhausted! Please, check the page and the talk page, and I think you'll find areas for contribution and creativity. Make your suggestions and additions, express your thoughts, your critics and anything else you feel appropriate. I believe that through co-operation we'll find our way. I think the most important thing is to keep the project alive and imrove its quality and its importance. If possible, spread the news and recruit other users. I'll come back, when I'll feel less tired! Cheers!--Yannismarou 17:20, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] RFC Devin79

I finally have lost patience with this guy. The RFC is up and running here Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/User:Devin79. Please endorse! Jdorney 12:04, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Florence O'Donoghue

A big thank for copyediting this article. ant_ie 17:18, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] POV articles

I agree with you that the list was not the right place for these comments. That is why I did not raise this issue at all. I just wanted to keep something useful from Adam's comment and use them as an incentive for collaboration. Thanks a lot for your great contribution to the project and your dedication! Με φιλικούς χαιρετισμούς!--Yannismarou 08:52, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Renaming

See: Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Log/2006 September 14# Orthodox Christian categories. IZAK 17:12, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Gildea

I bow to your superior knowledge of Irish :-) One question - the Irish Wikipedia is called Vikipedia? How so - there's no 'v' in the Irish alphabet? Bastun 23:26, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Weggie

Hi Damac,

Yes, I've had my run ins with Weggie, some constructive, others not so much. He is certainly a man of the unionist persuasion (nothing wrong with that in itself) and a lot of his edits are to do with correcting, as he see it, republican pov in articles. At times, this has seemed to me to be quite petty, but on the other hand, when I contacted him about the Brendan McFarlane article, he seemed amenable to reason.

Re the specific question, obviously, the word "terrorism" is a loaded one and preferably to be avoided. However, if people were convicted of "scheduled offences" then they were (Diplock courts or no) and only the wording of the category is a problem. Of course, there is no reason why loyalists should not be included in the same way, that would certainly be unbalanced and pov.

That's my two cents,

Jdorney 19:31, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Mac Giolla

Sorry for the Mac Giolla change I was wrong on that one --Gramscis cousin 11:04, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Please don't

...materialise what you said to Mits.. just yet. I'll explain below right away, but I'm posting this right now urgently...•NikoSilver• 21:00, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

The guy has a racist userpage.

He was blocked for 24h, and later for 72h for removing a dispute tag, (which was finally decided to be removed from an article).

I don't know about his edits, and whether it was him, but the block he is going to get from that is going to be disproportionate to his violation.

I am in the process of trying to mentor him regarding the content of his userpage. If that happens, we will create a disruptive user, while there is a great chance that we can bring him to line.

I have taken part in excessive userpage culls for the Macedonian issue. I had deleted the offending content of certain Greek userpages, and a fellow Macedonian Slav deleted those of his own people. The whole process was overseen by an admin, and the result was very productive in the realtive articles. Just let me go ahead and give him a chance. •NikoSilver• 21:08, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Elections in Athens

Kaklamanis is also supported from LAOS. Please check this link: http://www.laos.gr/ypopsifioi_dhmon.html Magioladitis 08:13, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanasis Milonopoulos is not a FORMER LAOS member but member of the Central Commitee of the Party. Vasiliki Tampieri is also a member of the LAOS' Executive Board. I think that LAOS logo should be included. Magioladitis 11:46, 25 September 2006 (UTC)


A note about the superpefectural elections in Athens-Pireus and the results in Athens and Pireus: Maybe we have to find and add also the votes the different candidates received. Certainly 2 more columns are required. I am sure somewhere in the web there are the results seperatelly. What's your opinion? -- Magioladitis 19:48, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Irish name of Terence MacSwiney

I realise that the monument to Terence MacSwiney gives the Irish form of the name as 'Traolach', however I am not convinced that this is definitive. From the picture it appears to date from the 1960s or 70s, while the actual printed name on contemporary works by MacSwiney is "Toirdhealbhach", which is presumably how he spelled it. Traolach seems to me a modern version - even allowing for the modern simplified spelling it ought to be something like 'Toirlach' or 'Toirealach'. Are you aware of any precedents for this kind of situation? Rbreen 09:16, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Anonymous editing

Although the links you put in my talk pages are red, you are right. I 'm sorry and I promesh this won't happen again. If I do then you 'll be right to tell an adminstator to block me (but not now). Thanks Mitsos 13:26, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Euroelections in Greece

In the Euroelections in Greece, 2004 article (European_Parliament_election,_2004_(Greece)#Results) you have a category Leader. In some of the them you have the president of the party (example: ND) and in some of them the 1st name in the list (example: M-LKKE). I think it needs clean-up. -- Magioladitis 17:42, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

Well, if you can find out the leaders of all the micro-parties, then fire ahead and include them. Most of those parties weren't even mentioned when I started editing that list (the parties with less votes than SYN were all lumped under "other"). Until these names are provided, though, I think including the names of the people on the top of the party candidate lists is very useful.--Damac 18:05, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
Some of these small parties don't even have a specific leader. One idea is to place in all positions the 1st candidate and another is to omit this column completely. What do you say? -- Magioladitis 00:47, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
I'm in favour of keeping the first candidate on the list, as this helps identify parties as they go through name changes. It's also essential for the three-four green parties which all claim the same name. Moreover, it prevents the parties appearing as anonymous entities devoid of any human involvement. I spent a lot of time putting those lists together, have found them very useful, and would like to see them stay with the names of main candidates. --Damac 07:09, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject History of Greece Newsletter - Issue I - September 2006

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Thank you.--Yannismarou 07:25, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

  • Why don't you tell Magioladitis about the project and the task force you created? I'm sure he could help.--Yannismarou 07:25, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

Are there many Irish people in Greece? Miskin 13:54, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

No, we're a rare breed, few and far between.--Damac 14:28, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] For the Task Force

Check Wikipedia talk:WikiProject History of Greece/Politics and politicians task force.--Yannismarou 13:50, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

Oh! And by the way (I almost forgot it!):

The Original Barnstar
For your enormous help and constant contributions in articles about Politics and Elections in Greece. In these domains you are really a pioneer.--Yannismarou 14:00, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

I always wanted to give one of these!--Yannismarou 14:00, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Civil War rv

hi Damac,

Could you do me a favour and revert the Irish Civil War page to what it was before the recent spate of pov edits? I tried but it is too big for my browser andthe end got cut off.

Thanks,

Jdorney 23:35, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Do you have Hagios ballot paper?

If you have please upload it or sent it to me by e-mail. -- Magioladitis 11:51, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

I'm afraid not. I don't live in the municipality, but I'll try and find someone who does and has the paper.--Damac 19:44, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

I have two comments for the KKE's logo you uploaded: 1. It's <110kb (big). Can you please resize (for example 50%) and upload it again? 2. It's only for the Perfectural elections. You can put in the superperfecture and in the 2 perfectures but not for the Municipality.

PS I still wait for the FINAL results!

-- Magioladitis 20:49, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject History of Greece Newsletter - Issue II - October 2006

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[edit] William Hoey Kearney Redmond

I was considering creating a page on this man so congratulations on beating me to it!

I have read the Denman book as well.

I feel the page as it stands covers his military career well but would be strengthned by more emphasis on his politics. Although generally a constitutional politician he did sometimes swing in the direction of advocating physical force and the tension between the two is quite interesting. It is possble that he just got carried away with his own rhetoric - he wouldn't be the first politician to do that

Talking of rhetoric, I feel the page also would benefit from some assessment of his powers as an orator and especially his final speech to the House of Commons which the Denman book quotes and comments on at length. I assume there would not be copyright problems about reporting a speech to Parliament.

I have a feeling that the compilers of Hansard may have elected him as the greatest Parliamentary orator of the 20th century but I can't find evidence for that so may have just dreamt it.

The reaction to his death is worth exploring too. It is said that his was the most mourned British Empire war death. In spite of the polarised nature of Irish politics at the time, Willie Redmond seems to have had almost no enemies.

After being so much mourned he was rapidly forgotten. The 'official' version of Irish 20th century history seems to either ignore or demonise the constitutional nationalists. Ironically the strategy he advocated - standing in elections, talking to the unionists- has largely been adopted by the current Sinn Fein heirs of those who condemned him and his allies for doing so.

Some time in the 1990s Mary McAleese and others opened the Island of Ireland memorial park in Belgium which commemorates the attack in which Willie Redmond died but without seeming to specifically mention him on any of the memorials. A link to this might help.

Of course I could just go ahead and add all this on my own without consulting you but I thought it would be more agreeable to open a discussion.

I am new to contributing to Wikipedia and am enjoying the whole business.

Best wishes

Kusala1952

Dia Dhuit,

You contributed to a debate re the old Irish Parliament do you think it would be an idea to have an article on each Parliament with a lis tof the members? The Parliament articl eis getting very long, A possibble tempalte might be sessions of the Ndew Zealand parliament Slan Durrus 19:01, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] History of Greece WikiProject Newsletter - Issue III - November 2006

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[edit] Cooperation board launched

A new (and overdue) Greek and Turkish cooperation and notification board has been launched here. Stop by, have a look and sound off! Cheers! Baristarim 07:19, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Manakis brothers and current administrative regions

In your edit comment, you say "On Wikipedia, we generally categorise people according to current administrative regions." I'm not aware of this policy, and find it a bit silly, especially since they passed most of their career (and the most notable part) in Monastir/Bitola, which was first in the Ottoman Empire and is now in ROMacedonia. But it's not a big deal, I suppose. Doesn't it seem strange to you, though, to categorize, say, Proclus as Category:People from Istanbul? Perhaps the "from" should really be "born in"? --Macrakis 18:10, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

It does sound strange, but that is the way it's done. To illustrate with other examples, we classify pre-19th century German people as Germans, and not as coming from the 270+ statelets that made up the Holy Roman Empire. The "Native of ..." is strictly about where people were born. Where they grew up or were socialised is another thing.--Damac 18:16, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
I might add that people as diverse as Ataturk and Saint Methodius are categorised as Category:People from Thessaloniki.--Damac 18:22, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Irish History

You seem like you have a lot a knowledge with respect Irish history so maybe you would like to comment on the historic basis of this term here Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal/Cases/2006-12-02 IRA 'Volunteer' usage —The preceding unsigned comment was added by DownDaRoad (talk • contribs) 20:27, 7 December 2006 (UTC).

[edit] About what you wrote in the RfC

I 've kept my promise. I 've never edited anonymously again. Mitsos 11:25, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

It wasn't abuse. I illustrated my point in a funny way. Mitsos 08:18, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] doctorate! so what

You and all the people on wiki who put their degrees on are only Show Offs, there are plenty that don't. Culnacréann 23:37, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] History of Greece WikiProject Newsletter - Issue IV - December 2006

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—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Yannismarou (talk • contribs) 14:47, 23 December 2006 (UTC).

[edit] Irish Parliamentary Party

Thankyou for explaining your plan for categorization of the various Nationalist factions represented in the British parliament. I was also thinking late last night about how to appropriately show the affiliation of the Irish Nationalist MPs! I think your plan is a good one. DrKiernan 15:32, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] IRA Structure and rank system

Damac, my recent edits were not vandalism. They were just tohigh the thousands of reference to the structure and internal organisation of various republican organisations. Some wiki users want the rank of Volunteer for those in the OIRA, PIRA, IPLO, INLA etc banned as they stated that its is an honourific term, yet on other pages the same users write about the internal structure of the IRA etc e.g. Chief of Staff, Quarter Master etc. My point was that if we are to be consistant then were can not recognise one rank and not others. Vintagekits 02:16, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Devin Reilly and the working-class

I see you question my assertion that Devin Reilly supported "working-class democracy". What I was attempting to summarise in a single phrase was his interest in gaining political and economic empowerment for the working class so that they could participate in a true democracy. Have I understood his idea correctly ? His interest appears to have been class-based rather than religion- or nationality-based. Perhaps "... in support of political empowerment for the working-class" or something similar ? He certainly didn't want a dictatorship of the proletariat - his interests seem to be akin to modern Labour or social democrat policy. Rcbutcher 23:13, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] KKE interior

Hi! And χρόνια πολλά for the new year! Maybe you would like to comment here.--Yannismarou 13:31, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Murder

Can you confirm the criteria you use to label a killing 'murder'? I see you used this term in the Concerned Republicans page. My interest is that a user has been changing 'murder' to 'killing' on all pages relating to INLA/PIRA killings? Weggie 23:42, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

I took the word directly from the Irish Times and provided a source.--Damac 09:15, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
Dont know if you are talking about me or not but I would use killings when policitally motivated/war scenario and murder when purely criminal--Vintagekits 01:09, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Greece Newsletter - Issue V (I) - January 2007

The WikiProject Greece Newsletter
Issue V (I) - January 2007
Project news
  • This is the first Newsletter of the new and enhanced Wikiproject Greece and the first of 2007! Please comment on its form, the way it is delivered , its content etc. We need your ideas and contributions!
  • The History of Greece Wikiproject and the Wikiproject Greece have been merged into the new Wikiproject Greece after the discussion between the members of both projects here.
  • New parameters have been added in our banner, {{WPHOG}}, which allow the reviewer who evaluates the quality of an article and rates it to check the five criteria in the project's new quality scale, in order to determine whether an article deserves B-Class rating or not. Guidelines for the use of the banner are here.
  • All the templates of the project and other templates for Greece-related articles are now gathered here.
  • New sources concerning the "Greek onomatology" have been added in our main page.
  • The Portal:Military of Greece has been created so if anyone wants to help go right ahead!
Current proposals and discussions
  • Check the list with our articles needing attention, where Great Fire of Smyrna has been added.
  • A suggestion for the creation of a fortnight or month Collaboration has been made here. Please, voice yourself: do you think this Collaboration is useful? Are you willing to participate?
  • A proposal for the creation of a "Greece military history taskforce" has been made. Please participate in the discussion here and express yourself.
  • The creation of a "Greek peoples task focre" and of a "Greek location task force" has been also proposed. Your contribution to the discussion here is again valuable.
  • You can also check the discussion for the categorization of Roman-era Greeks here.

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—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Yannismarou (talk • contribs) 20:14, 25 January 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Template talk:IRAs

Hi User:Damac, I noticed that you were involved in the last discussion at Template talk:IRAs, and I'd like to discuss a few changes I'd like to make. When I started last, someone reverted me, so I'd really like some other folks' input. I'd appreciate your thoughts at Template talk:IRAs. Erin Go Bragh

[edit] john o'connor power

is my great great uncle my great grandfather was his brother thomas the workhouses in 1840s doubled as hospitals if john was illegitimate there was a family unit the spy cartoon shows a man of great vigour and good looks - the fine black head of hair and beard hid the scars of the small pox i wrote to donald jordan but he died a few years ago jstanford1@eircom.net —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 213.202.188.142 (talk) 16:09, 6 February 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Clonfert Cathedral

It has come to my attention that someone has categorised the Clonfert Cathedral as Anglican. It has always been Roman Catholic/Irish correct? Thanks. --RiverHockey

It's been Church of Ireland since the Reformation.--Damac 14:49, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
Ah, too bad. --RiverHockey 18:36, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Northern Ireland

Hi could you have a look at this Talk:Northern_Ireland#Flag_Debate_Part_II, we had a concencus that the Ulster Banner shouldn't be used in the infobox, yet certain users are refusing to allow it to be removed, what is the normal way to resolve disputes such as this, they are evene accepting that their stance is POV.--padraig3uk 21:21, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Greece Newsletter - Issue VI (II) - February 2007

The WikiProject Greece Newsletter
Issue VI (II) - February 2007
Project news
  • This is the second Newsletter of the new and enhanced Wikiproject Greece! Please comment on its form, the way it is delivered , its content etc. We need your ideas and contributions!
  • All the "History of Greece" templates have been moved to just plain "Greece", and the project's main page has been updated to use the new names and not the redirects.
  • Our banner has been renamed to {{WPGreece}}). Additionally, "View/hide" hyperlinks for all the additional sections (Criteria for B-Class, peer-review, task forces) have been added to the banner, and a "small option" is also supported. The parameter for the Politics and politicians task force has been changed from task force1 to politics-task-force. For more details, check Wikipedia:WikiProject Greece/Project banner.
Current proposals and discussions
  • A proposal for the creation of task forces for other areas, such as arts, sports, etc. has been made here. The creation of a task force to periodically check article within the scope of the project against "erosion" has been also proposed here. Please, participate in the above discussions and express yourself.
  • Galleries of images at Greece, Athens, and Thessaloniki will probably get removed. A number were already removed from Greece. Interested editors are requested to make sure that any of these that aren't at Wikimedia Commons get moved there.
  • A new category, Category:Greek Civil War, has been created. Please populate it with relevant articles on revolutionary organisations, events, leaders etc.

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—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Yannismarou (talk • contribs) 18:07, 2 March 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Conolly's Folly (sic)

Hi there. Got your message, thanks! I'll immediately revert all that, fix up the redirs and update the article with the relevant references. Sorry about all the confusion! - Alison☺ 23:16, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

Ok - all fixed again. Take a look and just check it's the way it should be. Sorry again! - Alison☺ 23:37, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Greece Newsletter - Issue VII (III) - March 2007

The WikiProject Greece Newsletter
Issue VII (III) - March 2007
Project news
Current proposals and discussions
  • A discussion about the achievements of the project and its future priorities and plans took place here.
  • You can also see the discussion here about the organization of NA categories of the project.
  • A discussion is going on at WP:MILHIST about whether or not an Ottoman task force should be created.
  • See the discussions about the move proposals concerning certain Chalkidiki-related pages.
  • Help for the expansion of the article about Greek police has been requested here.
  • The issue of naming conventions concerning the various factions of the Greek Civil War has been raised here.

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