User talk:Dneale52

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[edit] March 2008

[edit] References & footnotes

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to make constructive contributions to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to County Wexford, did not appear to be constructive and has been automatically reverted by ClueBot. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. If you believe there has been a mistake and would like to report a false positive, please report it here and then remove this warning from your talk page. If your edit was not vandalism, please feel free to make your edit again after reporting it. The following is the log entry regarding this warning: County Wexford was changed by Dneale52 (u) (t) deleting 14960 characters on 2008-03-07T20:21:28+00:00 . Thank you. ClueBot (talk) 20:21, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

Just wanted to say that all edits need to follow WP:V and WP:NOR. This means all content needs to be verifiable and attributed to sources (thought citations). We should not write things from personal knowledge, and definitely should not publish original thought. We should adopt an encyclopedic tone, and avoid using the first person (such as "we"). Finally, we should avoid overlinking. Accordingly, your edit to Historical Jesus had multiple problems, so I have reverted it for now. Feel free to work on it, revise it, source it, and submit it again once it is up to wikipedia standards. If you have questions about wikipeida, I'd be glad to help further. Thanks.-Andrew c ^[talk] 11:45, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

Do not remove other's comments from talk pages. It is a very disruptive form of editing. Also, do not remove good faith warning tags placed on articles that you have been heavily involved with. If you want the tag removed, it's very, very easy. Just fix the concerns stated in the tag (or explained fuller on the talk page). Once the article has been brought up to basic wikipedia style standards, the tag can be removed. The tag is there to improve the article. If you have questions about any of this, ask. Thanks.-Andrew c ^[talk] 00:58, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] May 2008

[edit] References

Hi, just a note to say keep up the good work in your contributions to Irish politics articles. I'd like to point that when adding a reference which will be used more than once, you correctly add the following for example: <ref name=FF_WebBL> {{cite web |url=http://www.fiannafail.ie/person.phpx?pid=30&bid=30&rel=TD&aid=123 |title=Brian Lenihan TD |work=Fianna Fáil website |accessdate=2008-01-04 }}</ref> however there is no need to copy the whole thing again, the next time simply use <ref name=FF_WebBL/>. So if another editor changes/corrects one reference then all versions of it get updated. I've updated Brian Lenihan, Jnr's article as an example. Thanks, Snappy56 (talk) 08:23, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Members of Dáil Éireann by session template

Hi again, please STOP adding this template to individual politicians articles. This is wrong. It is only for Members of Nth Dáil articles like Members of the 10th Dáil. In general, templates only on articles that are part of the template, which then appear bolded in the template. If an article like Mary Coughlan is not on a template, then that template should NOT on her article. Tx, Snappy56 (talk) 11:14, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

I agree with Snappy of this point, though I think that it's unfortunate that Snappy's comment might appear to be rather more strident than I think he would have intended. I'm sure you added the template in good faith, and while I agree that it wasn't the right thing to do, most of us do things which appear to be a good idea at the time but afterwards turn out not to be. There is a rather good essay on this, called BOLD, revert, discuss cycle, which describes this process: make a change which you think is a good idea, and then discuss it afterwards. Hope this helps! --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 14:07, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

I wasn't being strident and didn't intend my comment to come across as such. It was supposed to be a polite friendly note to point out your error. Anyway, keep up your good work, it's nice to have new conscientious editors on Irish politics area. Snappy56 (talk) 08:48, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Irish artists

Thanks for elaborating on some of the pages I've made. I have been trying to provide better coverage of Irish artists. I can also add images for Willem Van der Hagen, was planning on making a page for him myself. How did you become interested in Irish painters? Thanks again. -RiverHockey (talk) 01:20, 9 June 2008 (UTC)