User talk:Declan Clam

Categories

Hi, and welcome! Noticed you added category:UEFA Pro Licence holders to Alex McLeish and Roy Aitken. You may not know yet that categories need to be backed up with a reliable source in the body of the article, which isn't the case on the two pages mentioned. This is particularly important when adding categories (or anything else, for that matter :) to articles about living persons. If you could add a sentence somewhere appropriate in the articles just to say he is a holder of the Pro Licence, with reference to a reliable source that verifies the fact, that would be great. If you don't know how to format the reference, just put the URL between single square brackets, which will display like this [1], and someone will eventually come along and tidy up the formatting :) cheers, Struway2 (talk) 08:02, 21 August 2009 (UTC)

Done. Declan Clam (talk) 09:05, 21 August 2009 (UTC)

Thanks, Struway2 (talk) 09:29, 21 August 2009 (UTC)

Lit encyclopedia

Good job on removing some of those lists already there. I went ahead and made redirects for some of them in case anyone was to try and search for the articles on Wikipedia from the lit encyclopedia (e.g. typing in tasso will not get them any article so I redirected that page to go to the one you identified). Cheers!Calaka (talk) 10:29, 28 September 2009 (UTC)

Lancope

I've changed the speedy delete template on this article from the {{db-g4}} you added to {{db-spam}} as it's not eligible for a G4 deletion. G4 deletion is only for pages that have been deleted after a deletion discussion (in this case it would be WP:AfD) and can not be applied to pages that have only been speedy deleted as this page appears to have been. Full speedy delete criteria are here. Dpmuk (talk) 13:14, 5 October 2009 (UTC)

Herta Müller

A really nice edit yesterday, including the editsummary. :-) -DePiep (talk) 14:42, 8 October 2009 (UTC)

Prod of Musical differences

You know, it's generally considered polite to notify the article creator if you prod an article - you're even given a convenient template to do so. Exxolon (talk) 06:29, 18 October 2009 (UTC)

Dear Declan Clam

May I please have your email, to discuss an article you have up for deletion. Thank you.

Yours Sincerely Lucky4moon —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lucky4moon (talk • contribs) 17:40, 22 October 2009 (UTC)

Oscar Wilde article

You do know that Ireland was part of the UK from 1854, meaning that he was British? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.125.97.56 (talk) 22:28, 26 October 2009 (UTC)

The United Kingdom of Britain and Ireland existed between 1801-1922. Why that makes Oscar Wilde "English" I can't imagine. He regarded himself as Irish and is so thought of by knowledgeable people. Do not change this again. Declan Clam (talk)

My apologies - It makes him British then. There was no such thing as Ireland back then. Only the idea in the minds of a bunch of rebels. If you want to keep on misinforming people of the nature of politics in that era, then that is fine, but you have just damaged your own reputation.

Oscar Wilde was British - fact. He may have thought himself to be Irish but factually he wasn't.

194.125.97.56 (talk) 23:15, 26 October 2009 (UTC)

Michael Birch

In your edit to Michael Birch you reverted to a version predating mine, although mine was also good. Any special reason? If so, please undo my last edit. Debresser (talk) 23:58, 27 October 2009 (UTC)

I'm no expert, but I think the article should be about the Michael Birch who founded Bebo, was born in 1970, etc.; not about the person (or friend of the person) who has changed it to make it about a Michael Birch who may or may not exist and may or, much more likely, may not have done some of the things attributed to him. In short, the version isn't fine, it's arrant foolishness. Declan Clam (talk) 00:05, 28 October 2009 (UTC)

Ok. Thanks. Debresser (talk) 00:06, 28 October 2009 (UTC)

ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Best deletion criteria I've seen; "he probably already has a page" Enter CambridgeBayWeather, waits for audience applause, not a sausage 01:00, 29 October 2009 (UTC)

Thanks, and for cleaning up some rather half-hearted vandalism on my user page. Declan Clam (talk) 05:13, 29 October 2009 (UTC)

LOL

Yes, it is necessary. XxTimberlakexx (talk) 21:13, 30 October 2009 (UTC)

Please explain why. No pages link to Lololololololol (for example) and I cannot imagine anyone capable of using a computer would type this into Wikipedia's search engine. Declan Clam (talk) 21:17, 30 October 2009 (UTC)

Vandalism

Thanks for your help, but I think this edit is more juvenile ignorance than vandalism. Unwelcome and unhelpful, certainly, but not vandalism without a history of such edits. Cheers. Rodhullandemu 01:53, 12 November 2009 (UTC)

Your message

I did not know that it was tagging as vandalism. I struck my templates and asked why the change in wording because it made more since the way it was. Thank you however for pointing that out. - 4twenty42o (talk) 05:46, 13 November 2009 (UTC)

No bother. It makes the same sense either way. "Shy of" is probably more elegant to most ears. Declan Clam (talk) 05:48, 13 November 2009 (UTC)

DYK for The Digby Conversion of Saint Paul

On November 22, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article The Digby Conversion of Saint Paul, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits your article got while on the front page (here's how) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

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WikiProject Theatre Newsletter - February 2010

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Speedy deletion converted to PROD: Green Marketing in Business Sustainability- The Need of the Hour

Hello Declan Clam. I am just letting you know that I have converted the speedy deletion tag that you placed on Green Marketing in Business Sustainability- The Need of the Hour to a proposed deletion tag, because I do not believe CSD applies to the page in question - WP:CSD#A1 applies only to "very short articles", which this certainly is not! It's undoubtedly original research, but that isn't a speedy reason, so it will have to be PRODded. The same applies to Green Marketing Approach: The New Survival Mantra of Business Organizations. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 13:24, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

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