User talk:Filceolaire

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Happy editing, Isomorphic 11:59, 22 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Hello Filceolaire! Do you speak/understand Portuguese? --Sei Shonagon 21:52, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

Contents 1 Portugese? 2 Hello 3 National Enquirer 4 Elections in Mozambique 5 Society for Creative Anachronism

[edit] Portugese?

I lived in Mozambique for three years and was fluent in Portugese by the time I left. I'm a bit rusty these days however.Filceolaire 07:39, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

That is interesting! Your native language/mother-tongue is English? Which language do you 'dominate' the best? Which languages do you claim proficiency? English, Portuguese or anything else? --Sei Shonagon 18:33, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

English mainly, though I've been fluent in Irish as well as Portugese in the pastFilceolaire 01:04, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hello

--Bhadani 10:37, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] National Enquirer

I have a problem with your presumption that the Enquirer is an unreliable source. As I stated on the WP:BLP talk page, while they were unreliable years ago, they have since improved their practices (after several law suits), and are considered to be a pretty reliable source now. Can you provide any examples from the past few years (let's say three years), where they got a story wrong? Crockspot 17:15, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

I was careful not to make a reference to National in the body of my comment - the only reference was in the edit summary and it may well be out of date. Any idea how I can change an edit summary?Filceolaire 16:54, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Elections in Mozambique

Hi Filceolaire, I found your statement "calling the 1994 elections "the first democratic elections" is not neutral point of view.There were other elections before this, people voted. These weren't even the first multiparty" intriguing.

When were the first multiparty elections in Mozambique in your opinion? Thanks Teixant 13:52, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

I'm afraid I don't have any reference or citation however my recollection is that during the transition period there were multiple parties. Did any elections happened then?

Under Frelimo there were single party elections. People voted therefore they were (by some peoples definitions) democratic. Were these contested between multiple Frelimo canditates? Were candidates selected in open meeting with public participation?

Even under Portugal I believe they had elections. I think they may even have had some sort of faked up multi-party arrangement.

My personal belief is that the 1994 elections were more democratic than those that went before however neutral point of view requires that we describe the previous elections and the restrictions that applied so our readers know more about them and can decide for themselves if they want to label those elections 'democratic' or not. We can't just label them as not "democratic" when there isn't even a general accepted NPOV definition of what is or is not a "democratic" election.

Now where can we get hold of info on elections during the portugese period, the transition period and the Machel period?Filceolaire 09:46, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Society for Creative Anachronism

Thank you for your contribution to Society for Creative Anachronism. I apologize for my mistaken revision of the web citation. I misread the citation, which on my browser, looked like a partial citation that trailed off without finishing. Upon review, I saw that the citation did in fact work, so I restored it. To be clear, I never took issue with the source itself, only with having an incomplete citation. Your continued contribution is appreciated. Wilhelm meis (talk) 21:17, 24 May 2008 (UTC)