User:The.Q

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Originally from Sligo Town (or should that be 'Sligo City'?) but now living in County Sligo. Always happy to hear from anyone with anything of interest to say here.

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A paper wasp (Polistes dominulus) with a bubble of regurgitated fluid in its mouth

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United States Capitol dome, 1846

United States Capitol dome, 1846
Daguerreotype credit: John Plumbe
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[edit] My Pages

These are my sub-pages.

The following are links to pages I may want to get access to quickly.

  • Wikipedia:Template_messages/User_talk_namespace
  • Template: Cite book (for citing references to books)
    • {{cite book |last= |first= |authorlink= |coauthors= |editor= |others= |title= |origdate= |origyear= |origmonth= |url= |format= |accessdate= |accessyear= |accessmonth= |edition= |series= |date= |year= |month= |publisher= |location= |language= |isbn= |oclc= |doi= |id= |pages= |chapter= |chapterurl= |quote=}}
  • Template: Cite web (for citing references to websites)
    • {{cite web |url= |title= |accessdate= |accessmonthday= |accessdaymonth= |accessyear= |author= |last= |first= |authorlink= |coauthors= |date= |year= |month= |format= |work= |publisher= |pages= |language= |doi= |archiveurl= |archivedate= |quote= }}
  • Template: Cite news (for citing references to newspapers)
    • {{cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |author= |coauthors= |title= |url= |format= |work= |publisher= |location= |id= |pages= |page= |date= |accessdate=2008-03-05 |language= |quote= |archiveurl= |archivedate= }}

[edit] Userboxes & Edits



amn't This user considers amn't a perfectly logical alternative to aren’t in the first person singular.
... in. Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which this user will not put.
man-
kind
Regarding gender, this user will use the vernacular, not what is "politically correct".
to / too
/ two
This user thinks that too many people have no idea how to use words that they should have learned in grade two.
whom This user insists upon using whom wherever it is called for, and fixes the errors of whomever he sees.
their / there / they’re This user thinks that there are too many people who don’t know that they’re worse than their own children at spelling!
your/ you’re This user thinks that if your grammar is incorrect, then you’re in need of help.
.  The This user puts two spaces after a full stop.
A, B and C This user prefers not to use the serial comma.
its & it’s This user understands the difference between its and it’s. So should you.
its/it’s It’s really not that hard to use each word in its proper manner.
’s Thi's user know's that not every word that end's with s need's an apostrophe and will remove misused apostrophe's from Wikipedia with extreme prejudice.
vn-1 This user page has been vandalized once.
SR
FC
This user supports The Bit O'Red
This user is interested in his or her local history.
This user lives in Ireland.
This user is a citizen of Ireland.
Mug
This user is a Muggle.
dad This user is a father.
37 This Wikipedian is 37 years, 6 months, and 29 days old
on June 11, 2008.
:-]
This user is polite and expects others to act accordingly.
en This user is a native speaker of English.
ga-2 Tá leibhéal meánach na Gaeilge ag an úsáideoir seo.
ie This user uses Irish English.


en-
ie
This user himself he thinks that Hiberno-English is just grand.
right-minded This user believes that only left-handed users are in their right minds.
ANAL 5 This user is incredibly stringent with professional grammar.
This user has been a member of Wikipedia since 28 Feb 2006.
This user has been on Wikipedia for
2 years, 5 months and 11 days.

430+

This user has over 430 pages on their watchlist.
“…”? This user thinks “British punctuation is best for quotation marks”. Do you?
This user spends WAY too much time on Wikipedia and really needs to get off the computer... after one more edit.
Firefox This user prefers Mozilla Firefox.
This user is not British, but shares a common heritage and respects a parity of esteem between the many people of "these islands".


This user is Irish.


Here are some of the articles I have created, edited or in which I am otherwise interested:

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[edit] Sligo related

[edit] Music related

[edit] Other Ireland related

[edit] Other Miscellaneous

[edit] Wikipedia pages

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[edit] Templates

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