User talk:Garydubh

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Hello, Garydubh! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your username and the date. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! ww2censor (talk) 23:52, 19 March 2008 (UTC) Getting started A tutorial • Our five pillars • Getting mentored How to: edit a page • upload and use images Getting help Frequently asked questions • Tips Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Policies and guidelines Neutral point of view • No original research Verifiability • Reliable sources • Citing sources What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons Manual of Style • Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry Copyrights • Policy for non-free content • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The community Build consensus • Resolve disputes Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • No legal threats Community Portal • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Writing articles Be bold in editing • Develop an article The perfect article • Manual of style Stubs • Categories • Disambiguation Pages needing attention • Peer review Miscellaneous User name • User pages • Talk pages Clean up: General - Spam - Vandalism Join a WikiProject • Translation Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

Well Gary, this welcome may be ironic to you but we try to welcome all users who bother to registered in the hope that they will be constructive editors to the project and there are several good links for you to find out about using Wikipedia. Please remember that Wikipedia is an encyclopaedia and not a web tool for people promoting a WP:NPOV. I suggest, based on yesterday's edits that you check out the policies and guidelines. ww2censor (talk) 23:52, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

where to the rules say that all references must be approved by the Government first - or at least those that are not in the Irish Independent??? Garydubh (talk) 00:28, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Great system

Gary, I see you pasted some of your debate with Batsun on my talk page. As far as I can make out you are the guy behind gps ireland's proposed "Post code system". I just want to say I think it is a great system with huge potential. I tried to include a piece about it on the Post Code page but it got removed. I decided the best thing is to go with the flow, if a few editors for whatever reason don't want my edits, I'll just leave it. It just becomes a tit for tat editing war that goes no where.

Back to your system, here's what I think you should do to encourage the adoption of it. I don't know if you plan on exploiting your creation commercially, but I think, if you want to give it a fighting chance at taking hold, you should make it freely available to every body. Make it an Open Source non-profit type project, with GPL or GFDL or CC or whatever type of free license would suit the project. Give it a .org domain name and let it be your gift to the Irish nation. If companies know that it is freely available for now and forever more they may take it on board as part of their distribution system. If they feel that it may cost them now or in the future they will probably just avoid it. I'd love to see your system in wide-spread use, it's well thought out. But like VHS and Betamax the better system may not necessarily win.--Trounce (talk) 12:51, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks Trounce - your suggestions are under consideration as we speak.Garydubh (talk) 13:08, 24 March 2008 (UTC)