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[edit] Walter fitz Gilbert
Thanks for putting in the citations. From what research I've done, theres so little hard evidence about this person, and so much conflicting stuff about who he actually was. I just thought it was important that the sources are presented clearly. Thanks, Edward Waverley 08:56, 13 June 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Towns
I see you've just been through a string of towns and villages in Berwickshie, which I either created or contributed to, and categorised them accordingly. I am rather shocked I didn't do this. I havn't looked but I wonder if I did and someone removed them? I suppose no-one is perfect, so very many thanks. Regards, David Lauder 08:15, 16 June 2007 (UTC)
Nice improvement on entry for Whitekirk ... only the postal town is Dunbar (not North Berwick) and the postal code is EH42 (not EH39). I'm not sure how to make that change so perhaps you coudl do the necessary. Cheers - Whitekirk Witch
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[edit] Category of Vermont cusine
Hi Brendandh. Inclusion of these foods in my homestate's category would not exclude any other peoples' use. It is not a claim of exclusivity. You might, for example, look at Québecose cusine. There is at least locally, distinction in what Vermonters eat and drink. Partly in its continuing difference from other U.S. states. Some of the things are influence of a British history, and others from the state's proximity to French Canada. These foods are things that Vermonters eat. Best, Jim CApitol3 22:11, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
[edit] King Arthur project collaboration
The King Arthur Project has begun a collaboration to bring its main article, King Arthur, to WP:FA status. If you wish to contribute, please review the to-do list on its talk page. Let's make this article an FA! Wrad 03:31, 22 June 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Historic Houses in Scotland
I wondered if you and any of the 'Scottish team' were aware that a "discussion" had taken place regarding this title and the decision taken to rename it "Houses in Scotland". Personally I find such a decision beyond comprehension. Is there some way this can be appealed? David Lauder 21:09, 25 June 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Your historic house
copied to Category talk:Houses in Scotland
Actually, I think your house is historic. "Historic" is a POV word with many meanings. From the perspective of many Americans, it would definitely be applicable to any house that was built before the establishment of the Untied States. For that matter, the 100-year-old house that I reside in here in Ealing is "historic" by my standards and the standards of many peopl from North America and Oceania.
Anyhow, "historic" is a subjective word with many interpretations. Categories need objective definitions; subjective inclusion criteria do not work (see Wikipedia:Overcategorization and the examples therein). I have already given ample explanation for why the word "historic" should not be used for categorization; just look at the nominations from Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2007 June 19 and Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2007 June 21. I am honestly tired of trying to communicate my viewpoint to people who either cannot understand or are unwilling to understand, so I really do not feel like discussing this further.
I apologize for not contacting everyone involved, but as you can see, the nomination of the Scotland categories were part of a much broader set of nominations. It would have been difficult to contact everyone and every project involved (especially for the England categories). Dr. Submillimeter 00:59, 26 June 2007 (UTC)
- "I am honestly tired of trying to communicate my viewpoint to people who either cannot understand or are unwilling to understand, so I really do not feel like discussing this further." What an incredibly pompous statement. Have you ever considered that "your viewpoint" is wrong! I think that some of us are sufficiently intelligent to understand what a Historic House is, and is not, in our own country. Never have I read such ludicrous arguments on such a simple topic, which no-one in Scotland would ever have dreamed would warrant even a discussion. The simplest answer to them all is this: would someone referring to Wikipedia go looking for a Historic House under that heading, or under Houses in Scotland. I think the answer speaks for itself. One more question: since when did a historic house have to be open to the public?? David Lauder 08:46, 26 June 2007 (UTC)
[edit] St. Mary's Collegiate Church
Hi Brendandh. You are off to such a great start on the article St. Mary's Collegiate Church that it may qualify to appear on Wikipedia's Main Page under the Did you know... section. Appearing on the Main Page would help bring publicity and assistance to the article. However, there is a five day from article creation window for Did you know... nominations. Before five days pass from the date the article was created, please consider nominating the article to appear on the Main Page by posting a nomination at Did you know suggestions. Again, great job on the article. -- Jreferee (Talk) 20:51, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
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Well done. It's the pictured slot for you!Blnguyen (bananabucket) 01:07, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Hugh Douglas
I notice that you have recently moved Hugh Douglas' page to Hugh Douglas (American footballer). "Footballer" is a term rarely used in the US, and never used for American football players. If you have the time, I'd suggest again moving the pages to Hugh Douglas (football player) or Hugh Douglas (American football), which are both commonly accepted article names for American football players. Pats1 22:07, 1 July 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Pictures
I've added another two pictures to Whitekirk & Tyninghame. Let me know what you think. Regards, David Lauder 09:36, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
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[edit] House/Clan Douglas
I have offered on the Clan Douglas talk page to work with you to rewrite the Clan Douglas article to correct any deficiencies there might be. The offer still stands if you wish to work collaboratively on this. You can contact me either by responding here or on my talk page. Nfras 02:33, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Early Douglases
Hello again, yes I have the downloaded copy of the RoM so can do any searches you might need. Incidentally, there is a mention of Bishop Bricius referring to his uncle on his mother's side as Freskin de Kerdal who gives a church of Devarth (Daviot) as a prebend. The interesting bit is the name "Freskin"; no one can prove that this Freskin was from the de Moravia family but the name suggests he may have been, so if he was then this could be the often mentioned tie up between the Douglases and Murrays. Rgds, --Bill Reid | Talk 07:34, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
[edit] RE:Template
Sorry, was away. I'm not aware of any such template. You are always free to design your own template, which isn't very hard, and put it in the article. BTW, looking at the Sholto Douglas article, it says:
- The victory was so nearly Donald's when a certain noble man, disdaining to see so bad a cause have good successe, struck in for the king and turned the fortunes of the day. When the king inquired about the knight who had done such valuable service, somebody exclaimed "Sholto du glasse!"...."Behold the black gray man!"
That's really interesting that they developed that myth ... and actually, "Sholto du glasse" is Gaelic, Seall thu dubh-ghlas and means what he says, though dubh-ghlas should be "dark grey" rather than "Black Grey". I wonder where David Hume of Godscroft got that from, or how old it is. Any ideas? Deacon of Pndapetzim (Talk) 17:01, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Hamiltons and succession box images
See the guidelines and policies for succession boxes here Wikipedia:WikiProject_Succession_Box_Standardization/Guidelines#A._Inclusion_of_images and that can answer the question about why the images were removed. Concerning the peerage header, I will fix that, I though I may have screwed it up a bit. The standards state, however, that the header that goes on the template is that of the original incarnation, which was Scotland. After Scotland was merged to form Great Britain, the peerages merged as well. But I will fix the template for the transitional person. An alternative is to split the titles between Scottish and British peerages as a title cannot be in both at the same time.
–Whaleyland ( Talk • Contributions ) 06:20, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
- It was no problem. I have hours of free time at work but can only use the computer. I realized my mistake and felt like just fixing the entire problem. I may later go into the other joint-peers and see if their pages have the same issue. Its mostly just because we are removing the editable parameter of Template:s-reg and I want to make sure that a smooth transition ensues since very few people have found that little glitch. But I also enjoy learning more and that was an interesting thing to learn. I never knew the old peerages still survived.
–Whaleyland ( Talk • Contributions ) 20:30, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
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[edit] quote
This article is incomplete. This is a list of Lords Lieutenants in England and its principality Wales, where is the other half of the Union, Scotland and Northern Ireland? Brendandh 14:30, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] unquote
awaiting YOU to put it in --81.109.227.62 02:57, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Military history WikiProject coordinator election
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[edit] 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 17:10, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
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[edit] You say Pomona...
I recently removed a fact tag from Mainland, Orkney and put in a couple of references purporting to show the name 'Pomona' came from a 16th century mistranslation of the latin. Only afterwards did I notice your remark on the talk page about John of Fordun. Unfortuntaely I don't have access to the historic documents concerned.
If you do, could I ask you to boldly amend the existing sentence to something along the lines of:
The island is sometimes referred to as Pomona, a name which has never been used locally, and that some claim stems from a sixteenth century mis-translation by George Buchanan (1506-1582). However, this is erroneous as the name appears in the xth century... <ref>
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[edit] Barnstar
I am asking whether WP:IE should have a barnstar for members and ordinary users who contribute a lot to it. i have a design for the barnstar if it is created on my computer so all I ask is should I create this barnstar? Yours sincerely --Markreidyhp 12:35, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Wiki surprise
You have won the Irish Wikipedians surprise draw!! Just leave a message on my talk page to receive the prize of USD 1,000,000 or EUR 638,442.37 or GBP 505,871.414 Markreidyhp 07:05, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
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[edit] Tantallon Castle
Hi Brendan, I'm currently working on the Tantallon Castle article, hopefully with a view to a GA nomination in the near future. I notice you've worked on the article - I'm guessing the Douglas bits :) - and wondered if you'd be able to help. The main thing would be to put inline citations for any quotes or other specific info you've added, to meet GA criterion 2b - that would be a real help as I don't have ready access to all the sources mentioned. Anyhoo, I'd be most grateful for any assistance you can render. Kind regards, Jonathan Oldenbuck (talk) 14:25, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] WikiProject Christianity
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You are receiving this invitation because you are a member of one of the related Christianity Projects and I thought that you might be interested in this project also - Tinucherian (talk) 04:24, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
Do you have clear authority for the statement that the Earl of Morton was condemned to be hanged, drawn and quartered, but this was commuted to decapitation? I don't think HDQ was practised in Scotland at this time. PatGallacher (talk) 13:46, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
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