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zoney ♣ talk 13:11, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Hurley steel bands phased out?
Regarding your addition to the hurley (stick) article, AFAIK the steel bands on hurleys haven't been phased out. Whenever I see hurleys in school, shops or on TV, there's always bands on them. JOHN COLLISON [ Ludraman] 18:24, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Hi John. Let me verify that one. AFAIK, the GAA started coming out against them some years back as players were getting ripped to pieces with the steel bands as they became loose. I'll get back to you on this ... Ali-oops 18:32, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC)
- Sorry didn't see this message, only came now to reply to the note you left on my talk page. Yeah, that seems okay, though since they are still around in large numbers maybe it would be better to say "the GAA want them phased out". I dunno, though, I'm not involved at all in hurling. However, I don't know if the phasing out will be successful, as the bands prevent the hurley splitting down along. I remember recently on an exchange in Spain, they got a local guy to make them some hurleys because they wanted to learn hurling. The hurleys he made were adequate, but were a different wood and had no band. Using one of them, I took a sidline ball - the moment it struck the ground it split right up the shaft. Hence the problem. Maybe some sort of moulded plastic that won't come off could... Anyway, I'm straying hopelessly off topic. Yeah, it seems fine! Cheers, JOHN COLLISON [ Ludraman] 17:05, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)
- P.S. I nominated Hurley for WP:ICOTW, if you want to support it there... :)
Hurleys and Martyn Turner
About the Martyn Turner, I think we're okay with one cartoon to show his style. What'd be better now would be to get a picture of the man himself, and a proper list of the books he's written. I was wondering though, that because the subject of the cartoon is the Iraq war, might the message be a bit unsuitable? A pic of the hurley would be nice. I've a few at home, but no digital camera. A pic of both hurling and camogie are also needed for the respective articles. JOHN COLLISON [ Ludraman] 19:15, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Antwerp
Hi there! Always nice to see people interested in (foreign) cities 'n legends :) I'm longing to go back to Ireland and visit some friends up in Waterford and Cork myself. Have a great trip to Antwerp, just remember; over here we have just one season in one day, not 4 (the rainy one, obviously ;-)--VanPeel 03:10, 19 Jan 2005 (UTC)
out of the blue
Good to hear from you, mallow threw me off, but dunshaughlin finally put it back together, sent a wikipedia email. Kglavin 19:30, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Must Kill Kenny
I changed it because 'Hurl' is used almost everywhere. Even by commentators on Radio 1. Maybe I should phrase it better, but I just didn't want to leave the impression that it was exclusive to Kilkenny --Irishpunktom\talk 18:53, Mar 22, 2005 (UTC)
St. Patrick
Hello. I left the following on the St. Patrick discussion page, but I don't think you saw it. So, once more with feeling ...
St. Patrick: Fact and Fiction What are the sources for the following statments?
- 1 - "born Patricius Magonus Sucatus"
- 2 - " seems to have studied at the monastery of Lérins on the Côte d'Azur from 412 to 415 ...He spent the next 15 years at Auxerre were he became a disciple of Saint Germanus of Auxerre and was ordained possibly about 417."
- 3 - "Saint Germanus consecrated Patrick bishop about 431, and sent him to Ireland to succeed Saint Palladius, the first bishop, who had died earlier that year. "
- 4 - "There was some contact with the pope. Patrick visited Rome in 442 and 444. "
- 5 - "Popular devotion to Patrick began in France, long before Sucat received the noble title of Patricius"
These and other statments seriously mar what is otherwise a fairly good and reasonably well written article. Also the chronology implicit in them is all over the place. The fact of the matter is that no one know for sure what the dates of Patrick's life are; those of 461 (arriving in Ireland) and 491 (death) are estimates arrived at only after decades of discussion. Will whoever rewrote this article please show the basis for including these statments. Thank you. Fergananim
One-room schools
After reading your added content, I was able to edit the DYK blurb on the Main Page to add mention of Ireland. Mark in Richmond. Vaoverland 12:44, Apr 26, 2005 (UTC)
Re: Alveolus
Oops, thanks for spotting that typo. I've got the image file at home, I'll fix it tonight. Pdefer | !! 14:19, 2005 May 24 (UTC)
Conas atá tú?
The Irish wikipedia is in desperate need of contributors. At the moment there is around 5 active wikipedians(or vicipéideoirí in Irish). If you can, come and help us at ga:, it doesn't matter your standard of Irish, there are people there to correct it for you. We're at 778 articles at the moment and pushing for 1,000 but it's slow work with so few contributors. So come and help us pleae. Bí ann! ga:- Dalta 22:07, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
Brian Reddy
This ones actually real, believe me. IMDB him. --Kiand 22:51, 28 May 2005 (UTC)
User:Brianreddy
Thanks for helping out with these new hoaxes. New modus operandi seems to be to write real articles, but decorate them with images from Trinity students. I have put two of them on WP:IFD; the last one on Pamela Fitzgerald seems to pan out. Lupo 07:15, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
Thanks
Hi, Thanks for your support on my Adminship request.Seabhcán 09:24, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
I can help but notice that lupo, megan1967 and you seem to be on every page that is up for deleation.I am woundering are the three of ye working together or is there a power strugle to become the most influncel person on wikipedia. Ye also seem to keep Trinity as your scape goat because it has a large base of people under the same IP address. I know that some of there sites were hoaxs but other look real and you still tried to deleat them.
Returning your /. greeting
On Wikipedia! Thanks for adding the catalogs on my recent entries! Jokestress 7 July 2005 02:53 (UTC)
Berkus
I have rv the csd, but was hoping you could do something to this page to help establish notability, there are recurrent nn vanity additions to irish artists, i think we should be pretty liberal about deciding notability but without a link to a third party exhibition or award it is sometimes hard to decide.Notjim 11:14, 3 August 2005 (UTC)
- Thanks for the message and your help with this!Notjim 21:54, 3 August 2005 (UTC)
Fnord's
please read he Fnordaricle, then my talk page, and please know it was not intended as vandalism.Gavin the Chosen 21:32, 7 August 2005 (UTC)
to Show
To try and proove my own merits, please, howd i do on SAM2 broadcaster ?Gavin the Chosen 05:01, 8 August 2005 (UTC)
Even worse!
Aieee! Thank you for finding that oophorectomy issue in the bone section on transwomen. I figured out where it came from and so I fixed it. (See the talk page.) I cringe that people may have actually read that.NickGorton 20:37, 11 August 2005 (UTC)
"Scanger" article
I think I should really thank you for all the cleaning up you do on the Scanger article—without you, I think I'd have to bury my head in my hands and cry, what with all the rubbish added to it.
Big thank you again. Very much appreciated! :D
— Doshea3 18:49, 12 August 2005 (UTC)
Help out
Hi, have a look here: Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/WikiProject Wikipedians for Decency. -NickGorton 21:02, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
