User talk:MacLeinin

Welcome!

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George Ashlin looks as if it could become a very good article, and I wish you well with it. To keep the pack off your back while you work on it, you might find it useful fairly soon to add a little more biographical information and to work it over in line with the editing guidelines at How to edit a page above. I've put a "Wikify" tag on it, which should have the effect of keeping other tags at bay, but the best remedy is of course to pull it into line yourself. Best wishes,Staffelde 11:36, 14 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Imidges

Please have a look at what I have done to Ballaghaderreen Cathedral and note the very careful licence deatils I have put on Image:Ballaghaderreen Cathedral 5385.jpg. Proper licence info is essential or images on Wikipedia will get deleted. (I take gleeful pleasure in arranging the deletion of images uploaded by careless people!) I have emailed Ask about Ireland about the image so do not upload any images from there for a week or so in case they raise valid objections. I have asked them to reply on User talk:RHaworth so you might care to check that page.

Links using naked URLs, eg. http://www.askaboutireland.ie/image_large?asset_id=1334 look absolutely horrible in an article. Please "pipe" them thus: SS Peter and Paul’s, Cork or as in the cathedral article. Also some Wikipedians are so Wiki-centric that they like to see all external links shifted to the bottom of an article. I am more relaxed but don't be too annoyed if someone starts editing your articles in that respect. -- RHaworth 08:58, 17 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

St. Colman

Please see the message I have left at Talk:St. Colman. Cheers. -- Francs 2000 10:56, 19 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I can sort it so that anyone searching Wikipedia for "St Colman" or "St. Colman" or "Saint Colman" (or any combination of the above) arrives at a page where they are presented with both options and they can navigate their own way to the one they want. Just one quick question: is Colman Mac Leinin of Cloyne the former saint's full name? -- Francs 2000

22:01, 20 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

How is that looking now? I removed the header from the start - you may want to reinsert a bit further down but it's really bad practice to start an article with a header -- Francs 2000

23:22, 20 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Catholic Church

The division of the topic under Roman Catholic Church, Catholicism, etc is the result of a long process documented in the various talk pages. We don't need to change all of this again without some very good reasons. Please read through all the talk pages and archives to see how this developed. Rmhermen 02:17, 21 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

What are you all talking about?

I have been contributing to this site for about two weeks now and as far as I am concerned, you all speak some wierd language that is incomprehensible. I know it is not that I do not understand English, but is there any link on this entire site that explains things in a way that is understandable? For those of you who specialise in 'cleaning up' and/or (God help us) 'Wikifying' other sites, is it possible for you to explain to the user/author in plain terms what should/could be done? -- MacLeinin 2006-01-21 00:37:17

Normally I reply on my talk page but clearly until you learn your way, it will probably be better for me to move the thread here. The first thing that should be done is that you should learn to sign comments on talk pages with ~~~~ !

Yes Wikipedians do have their own language but, in my opinion, it is "open" (ie. unlike some argots it is not designed to exclude the uninitiated) and it is well documented. To take the specific example you mention, the {{wikify}} tag generates a boiler plate message which includes two wikilinks which, if you had followed them, would have told you all about wikification.

Actually have I put a wikify or any other tag on any of your stuff? I was very impressed by your contributions apart from the matter of external links that I have discussed above - and surely that is self explanatory? But if you want further clarification, just ask - you may reply here, I shall be watching. -- RHaworth 06:24, 21 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It was I who put a Wikify tag on your article a) because it needed to be wikified (by which is meant the editing of the page in the house style - please check the links above to discover in more detail what that is); and b) as a signal to other editors that the article was a work in progress and should not be nominated for deletion before you had had the chance to work on it enough to make it acceptable. I have now made a small edit to the introduction, to bring it into line with the house style, and have removed the tag, since it irritates you, but it was there for good reasons. It is a very interesting article, which doubtless you will continue to improve, but you need to provide a note of the source(s) you are using (especially for the striking assertion that George Ashlin was the son of A W N Pugin). As for the rest, there have to be some rules, or the whole thing would be chaos. Sorry if you are finding the jargon impenetrable but a little investment of time reading the pages to which I have provided you with the links above will soon bring you up to speed. Best, Staffelde 14:43, 21 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Staffelde - please say which article - MacLeinin has done quite a few. -- RHaworth 09:51, 22 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

George Ashlin, as I shd of course have made clear at the time.Staffelde 18:47, 22 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Staffelde - The part about AWN Pugin being Ashlin's father was an error, thanks for pointing it out. I was working on EW Pugin at the same time and got my wires crossed. -- MacLeinin! 10:51, 22 January 2006

Easily done.Staffelde 18:47, 22 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Image copyright problem with Image:Killarney_1899.jpg

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J. J. McCarthy

Hi MacLeinin, please be refered to Talk:J. J. McCarthy#Partially plagiarized from Jeremy Williams' work. Regards, AFBorchert (talk) 21:48, 13 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright problem: J. J. McCarthy

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Further investigations

Hi MacLeinin, given the previous case (see above) I started to analyse your contributions. My findings are here and I have opened a formal investigation here. Regards, AFBorchert (talk) 07:29, 19 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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