User talk:DrKiernan

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Welcome!

Hello, DrKiernan, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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[edit] Thanks!

I was unable to see that in my studies, however, I will take a look. Also, if anyone was rude or angry it was the person who made that remark. There was no need for it. If you and rest disagreed you could have simply just fixed it and kindly mentioned reasons on my talk page.

No, I will not be editing that page because if there is one thing being a rational person has taught me. You can not rationalize with irrational people, so it is useless to argue and get into a big fight someone who makes such rude comments.

But, thank you again! RosePlantagenet 18:58, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] License tagging for Image:CharlesRobertSpencer.jpg

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[edit] Wikimedia Commons

I noticed you re-uploaded an image of George VI to Wikipedia from the Wikimedia Commons, but it is not necessary. In fact, that is the exact opposite of what you should be doing! :) The Wikimedia Commons is a repository for images that can be used on all Wikimedia projects, including the english Wikipedia. The file name of the image there can be used here and it will still work. For example, click the image of George VI to the right and you will see that it says that it is from the Commons.

So, for future reference, it is not necessary to re-upload Commons images. Also, please consider uploading all of your images to the Commons (as long as they are public domain or free to use) so they may be used in all languages, Wikinews, Wikiquote, and so on. Thanks. --tomf688 (talk - email) 03:42, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 6th earl?

I've removed the tag as the image has to be deleted from Commons, not here. --Rschen7754 (talk - contribs) 04:25, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Czech lands: 1918-1992 > Czechoslovakia

		The Epic Barnstar
		For your work merging Czech lands: 1918-1992 into History of Czechoslovakia I award you this Epic Barnstar. --TheMightyQuill 18:50, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Catch-22

Thanks for your input into Catch-22 and character articles. Although you probably have, make sure you read through all the talk on Catch-22 about what we are trying to achieve with the Characters/Article.

I agree with the merging or Nately's Whore's kid sister into Nately's Whore - in fact it is likely that it will be merged into Nately anyway. If possible use the Character Template suggested by Wikiproject:Novels [1] - obviously a cut down version for minor characters (e.g. Major —— de Coverly) and major characters (e.g. Orr (Catch-22)).

Also I dont think the list should be merged. As explained in the talk, I believe the list in the main article is far too long and needs to be cut down to only the top 10/15 major characters - those who the main themes revolve around. The external list can then list all the characters for those that are interested. Given time I will do this myself, though it you wanted to help out that would be great.

Cheers Lethaniol 13:21, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

P.S. The main reason that I have not merged relevant characters already is that I did not want to until I wrote a decent article for each first.

[edit] Irish Parliamentary Party

Hi, About your revert to James Burke Roche, 3rd Baron Fermoy. The categorisation and naming of 19th century Irish political parties and politicians is very inconsistent. You insist that Burke was not Irish Parliamentary Party, but Nationalist Party (Ireland). Yet, if you look at the articles on both they are describing the same organisation. Both articles state that the IPP and NP split in 1890 and remained divided until 1900.

In the United Kingdom general election, 1895 article, for example, there is no distinction made between candidates nominated by the Irish National Federation or the Irish National League.

As it stands (well until last night when I started to make more accurate categorisations), the Category:Nationalist Party (Ireland) politicians was being used wildly to include people from Issac Butt to Joseph Devlin.

What I'm proposing is to try and establish where MPs stood and to categorise them accordingly into Category:Anti-Parnellite MPs and Category:Parnellite MPs, which are sub-categories of Category:Irish Parliamentary Party MPs. On top of that, we should stop using the generic label applied to all Irish politicians from 1880 (Nationalist), and try to use the names of the organisations that actually existed (such as IPP).--Damac 17:45, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] All-for-Ireland League

Hello, I wish to acknowledge with appreciation your concern for detail under the above image which page I also set up together with D.D. Sheehan and most of O'Brien. I find the inclusion on the O'Brien page fine as he founded the party. I avoided including the image in Sheehan due to overcrowding it and taking from his central work for land reform and rural housing. I am inclined to wish to remove the image from his page again but first want to check out your view as you have done nice work in linking names and categories correctly, thank you.
Osioni 11:49, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for your understanding reply: I have instead just repositioned the image a block higher up, where I feel it looks less constricting. All the best. Osioni 12:39, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

I see two small problems: you replaced John Walsh Cork South with O'Donnell which is not correct, according to Walker's Parliamentary Results in Ireland, 1801-1922. I only see a Thomas O'Donnell in West Kerry, who was an Independent (sympathetic to O'Brien). It would have to have been a Cork constituency anyway as the AFILs were all Cork MPs in 1910, Tim Healy definitely Cork NE in a 1911 by-electon replacing Moreton Frewen (Healy was defeated in Louth in 1910) !! Can you please re-research further and correct. Osioni 13:15, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

To your suggestion, I would prefer to keep the image simple and only list the AFIL as its MP representatives stood after the second election December 1910 and by-election 1911. I would ignore O'Donnell, or mentioning Tim Healy previously in Louth (under the image). Such details concerning the January election should be inserted on the history page of the AFIL I agree, otherwise there is too much conflicting detail under the image which is not the best place to detail both elections. Greetings Osioni 22:10, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] George V and Nicholas II

Look, this is not just my opinion. It's hard to find a book on either man that doesn't mention the resemblance. Your contention that they do not, in the absence of an actual published source, is original research. And the two were first cousins. Are you really denying any family resemblance? Their mothers looked very alike, as well. john k 16:30, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

That the two men physically resembled each other is not to say anything about their political views, which were indeed different (although people have often suggested that Nicholas would have been a good constitutional monarch of England - he just had the misfortune to think it was his duty to be an absolute despot of Russia). And they look way more alike than either looks like Ferdinand of Bulgaria. And I don't see how it's potentially racist to note that two first cousins physically resembled each other. I'm no longer sure what's actually at stake in the article, but I still don't think we should say that they didn't actually look similar unless you can find a source which says that. john k 14:29, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] George V of the United Kingdom

Thank you for removing the comma that I carelessly left in when I was changing the order of the words. ElinorD 17:41, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Featured article review

I noticed your posts at Featured article review (FARs). It isn't encouraged to post so many FARs at the same time. FAR doesn't simply have the resources to cope with so many. I hope you can understand this. LuciferMorgan 09:09, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

I second LuciferMorgan. Can you manage to review all of those simultaneously? — Indon (reply) — 09:12, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

Yes; we cannot review so many at a time. Perhaps you can place one at a time; as the backlog clears, you can gradually add them. That way, they can get a correct treatment. Thanks. — Deckill er 09:19, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

You may also put a notice on the talk page of the article you think needs review with reasons why you think it needs review, so that page-watchers can proactively work on the necessary improvements. Arnoutf 16:48, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] George I

Please, don't get disappointed. Your article is featurable. Even now! It does needs some fixing per the current FA criteria:

When you use online sources, take advantage of Template:cite web or Template:cite news.
Avoid listy sections, and lists in general - prefer prose.
Rewrite the lead properly, and with nice paragraphs per WP:LEAD.

You can make this article FA! Would you like to have a look at User:Yannismarou/Ten rules to make an article FA?--Yannismarou 18:20, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon

I passed Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon as a Good Article. It looks like it more than meets the criteria. Thanks also for your help with the grand duchesses articles. I'll still need to do more work on the article about Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia, but your comments will give me a starting point. --Bookworm857158367 02:26, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] George I of Greece on WP:BIO To-Do List

My apologies. I was being entirely too efficient and overlooked it when I was fixing up the list. Thanks for correcting my error. Mocko13 15:27, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Project to work-group

Hiya Dr, could you please explain to me why it is that you've reclassified some of the minor British royalty articles to the work-group? Cheers – D B D 18:55, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Peer review

Hi. I'm a little busy at present, but will see if I can comment on your other peer reviews soon. Try listing biographical articles you want reviewed at both PR and Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Peer review, as listing it there also will get you more feedback. It's a shame there's not many commenting at peer review to be honest. As I said in one of the reviews though, try getting a few to review the 1. a. criteria (of WP:WIAFA) which asks for "compelling, brilliant prose" - another user who's good, other than the one I mentioned, is Yannismarou, so you could see if he's busy or not also. Good luck with the articles. LuciferMorgan 01:29, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Loch Arkaig Treasure

Hi, thanks for reviewing this. I've tried to meet your suggestions. If you are willing to take a look I'd be grateful. Any other comments are welcome.--Doc^g 19:31, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Baldev Raj Gupta

I've moved this to an AfD debate from your prod. A book reference showed a 1983 date, with a different transliteration of the author's name, so I felt that evidence of arguable notabiity might be there if editors want to dig it out. I've added it to the list of India-related deletions. --Mereda 08:24, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Variation on prod template

Hi, I've created a {{prod-nn}} template that may be of interest. Addhoc 19:57, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Barbara Dare assessment

Surely it's not a stub, it has references, an infobox, and subsections. WP:STUB says 3-10 sentences, which this is far beyond. I'd say start-class. --AnonEMouse ^(squeak) 18:26, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Stub assessment is based on the stub tag at the bottom of the article. Change it if you disagree. I didn't read the text past "porn actress", and so my assessment is necessarily arbitrary. DrKiernan 18:38, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. Stub tag removed, article re-assessed per FAQ. --AnonEMouse ^(squeak) 18:43, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Edward the Abdicator

Re: your edit summary ("Not just the UK - Canada, Australia, NZ, South Africa, Ireland, India, and 40-odd other countries)" - I thought all of that was the UK. :) Noticed your philosophy on your user page - have at it! Most of the time, I feel like Hercules at the Augean stables. Cheers, Kaisershatner 20:03, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] George VI of the United Kingdom

Can you shed any light on the GA status of this article; it is needed for GimmeBot to build {{ArticleHistory}}. Dr pda's ArticleHistory script, WP:GA history and the article talk page confirm that it is/was a GA, yet the template is not listed on the talk page and I can't find the article at WP:GA. It appears that ErleGrey (talk • contribs) (who passed it GA) never added the GA template to the page, but I haven't figured out why the article isn't listed at GA, since he did add it there once. A record of the GA template is needed on the talk page for GimmeBot to build the article history. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 17:51, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

Yes, I recall that User:ErleGrey just added GA to the class parameter in the WP:Biography template and didn't add the GA template itself. The id number of the reviewed version was oldid=107054364 at 15:52 12th February. DrKiernan 17:57, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks (yes, that is the oldid returned by Dr pda's articlehistory script). I've queried Gimmetrow (talk • contribs) to see if he knows why it was removed from WP:GA; once we get to the bottom of this, we'll add the appropriate template to the talk page, so GimmeBot can build the history. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 18:02, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Your GA nomination of Edward VIII abdication crisis

The article Edward VIII abdication crisis you nominated as a good article has passed , see Talk:Edward VIII abdication crisis for eventual comments about the article. Good luck in future nominations. --AnonEMouse ^(squeak) 19:29, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Congratulations! LuciferMorgan 03:35, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Bowes-Lyon

Hello DrKiernan. This http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Elizabeth_Bowes-Lyon&curid=46744&diff=118304428&oldid=118291773 is a great edit! I love it when an editor turns an impression into a factual statement with a deft use of a source. Good work.-- Zleitzen^(talk) 17:42, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

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