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Ireland naming question

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Ireland naming question

You are receiving this message because you have previously posted at a Ireland naming related discussion. Per Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Ireland article names#Back-up procedure, a procedure has been developed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Ireland Collaboration, and the project is now taking statements. Before creating or replying to a statement please consider the statement process, the problems and current statements. GnevinAWB (talk) 18:02, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

Why the Sark Is. is not mentioned on the page? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.17.78.18 (talk) 11:40, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

British Isles, again

HighKing, you know it's been agreed that for the time being there should be no additions or deletions of the term British Isles. Why then, did you do this [1]? I've noticed from time-to-time you slip in the occasional deletion; I would ask you to stop doing so. Perhaps you could reinstate the deletion mentioned here and place a cite tag on it if you are so concerned. I hate to say this, but it could be construed as gaming the system when you take a sentence containing "British Isles" and rigorously apply WP:V to it. The article in question has many unreferenced assertions, so why pick on the one containing the disputed term? LemonMonday (talk) 12:42, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

Ah, my old SPA annoyance ... still trawling looking for arguments. I often wonder if you are a sock, if if so, who you are a sock of, because it's just plainly odd that your first edit in months is to pick up on this edit? I hadn't even noticed the term British Isles in the sentence - if you check my edits around that time, I was on a "football" and "Republic of Ireland" theme. And the insinuation that I "slip in the occasional deletion" is just plainly a lie, but I nevertheless look forward to you providing the diffs? To the best of my knowledge, there has been one incident in the past 3 or 4 months where an edit war broke out over an article title (that I wasn't involved in) and I reverted and asked for admin intervention who froze moves on the article. As to this article Football in the United Kingdom - feel free to edit as you see fit, but the statement that The Republic of Ireland, although not part of the UK, is often regarded a home team due to widespread mutual interest throughout the British Isles in all five international football teams. clearly fails WP:V as you admit yourself (as well as not being NPOV, so it's a good edit, but I won't revert you if you add it back in. I've no interest in British Isles at the moment. --HighKing (talk) 13:21, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

Here's another: [2], and there have been a couple more but I can't now find them in your list of edits - but they are in there somewhere. LemonMonday (talk) 13:45, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

Just noticed your comment at User talk:TharkunColl. I'm not sure exactly how to interpret it, but let me make this point very clearly - I am not TharkunColl. LemonMonday (talk) 13:54, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

I'm not exactly sure how to interpret your lack of interpretation to the comment I left on Tharky's page, but let me make this point very clearly - I have never said that you are Tharkuncoll, and wouldn't. I've far too much respect for Tharky for that... --HighKing (talk) 22:07, 15 March 2009 (UTC) --HighKing (talk) 15:24, 19 March 2009 (UTC) --HighKing (talk) 13:28, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

That IP

Why don't you just explain why you reverted that IPs edit? Just because someone does not have a username does not they should not be able to communicate. Am I missing something obvious? This is not meant as an admonishment, rather I am just trying to understand your motives. Chillum 13:44, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

Hi Chillum - I'm not responsing to the anon IP because that editor is clearly being obnoxiously rude and appears to believe that issuing demands in an uncivil tone is the way to communicate. It's not, and rather than spend time on it, I delete it. Simpler all round. Also, take a look here where the promised "sweetness and light" never transpired - just an unclever pseudo-apology and a repeat of the demand. It's obvious that the editor knows they're being rude. This is the anon IP's third demand - 3 strikes and they're out, so I've requested that this editor leaves my page alone in future. And it's got absolutely nothing to do with they're being an anon IP - I've regularly responded to anon IP's in the past. See one word demand which I reverted with the comment "Removed anon IP one-word demand "Explain". Sheesh ...", then [3] reverted with "Removed uncivil comments from anon IP", and the final edit including the pseudo-apology of "I apologize if you found my tone rude" which if you look closely you'll realize is not an apology at all, followed by a repeat of the demand. Now, it appears that between you, me, the Anon IP, and Snowded, we've spent far too much time on an issue that would have been easily addressed if the Anon IP editor had a modicum of civility and basic manners in the first place. --HighKing (talk) 14:20, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

I left him/her a reply on my talk page --Snowded (talk) 16:32, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

Thanks Snowded - you spent too much time on that (for your own health). Obvious that the Anon IP editor knows what they're doing and is just trying to stir things up. I've had experiences in the past with obnoxious Anon IP's so my advice is to not feed the trolls. -HighKing (talk) 14:46, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

Thanks

Hi & thanks for the advise on Irish sausage. I didn't have much of a budget for my meal, so I went with a US adapted bratwurst with little filler. It shares most ingredients with British banger recipies I've seen online and I could get it at a reasonable price. Typically I make my own sausage, but didn't have the time for tis event. Regardless the event was a huges success. People whose perception is that the Irish eat corned beef and cabbage three times a day, were introduced to coddle, colcannon, parsnips, turnips, and lamb stew -- though the corned beef came out well too. Over all a very fun event. If you ever get to California, please get in contact with me. I'd be happy to take you for a sailing tour of San Francisco Bay. Details on my boat are at: [4] Talk to you soon. --Kevin Murray (talk) 14:24, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

Thanks Kevin - great to hear it went well although I haven't eaten coddle since I was a teenager. I don't get to SF that much these days, but I'll ping you next time I'm in town! And that's one seriously nice boat, looks like fun. --HighKing (talk) 14:30, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

British Isles

Hello HighKing. I noticed your post on Snowded's talk page concerning the use of the word "many" in the British Isles article. I thought I would direct you to this discussion which I believe was the latest on this subject. Jack forbes (talk) 19:37, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

Thanks Jack! Actually, the consensus appears to have been reached here, although judging by the subsequent discussions, many people object....  :-) --HighKing (talk) 14:11, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

Hiya. When you say you replaced many, don't ya mean you restored many? Replaced sounds like you deleted many & put another word there, in its place. GoodDay (talk) 15:12, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

Yeah - you're right. Hadn't sounded wrong till you mentioned it, but now that you have... --HighKing (talk) 15:15, 27 March 2009 (UTC)