User talk:Gary1505

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		Good work. Stay put. Keep it up! RashersTierney (talk) 21:41, 19 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Non-free image use

Twice I removed the Garda image File:Gardaí.jpg from Republic of Ireland because the use of any non-free image must have a fair-use rationale which it does not have. Besides which, its use in this article fails WP:NFCC#8 because it does not add anything to the reader's understanding of this article and is only decorative to the section it is used in. Please stop as this is a bad use of this image, it is disruptive and you are edit warring. ww2censor (talk) 17:19, 21 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Edit Style

Instead of the rediculous amount of tiny edits you perform such as the Republic of Ireland ones, which seems to be more of an attempt to accumulate as many edit counts as possible, i must ask you to make multiple big changes in one edit rather than one edit for each small change. Its better for other editors when monitoring a page and any changes made to it Mabuska ^(talk) 20:39, 21 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Also edit style

I see you have modified the article 'County Mayo'. I've looked over the edits and don't find them so helpful. For instance I have been working to make small linkable articles on all the Baronies that the county is divided into. 'Baronies' as a land division are still quite important in this county and they are commonly known by names such as Erris and Kilmaine etc.... I think that it is important that the basic land divisions appear near the top of the article in with the geography section where I had them, so that it will be obvious to everybody reading the article what way the county is divided up into sections. Also, those podcasts should not, in my humble opinion, be under the heading 'The Media'. (my experience of most of 'the media' is not represented by this!!) These are poorly linked and when you do eventually find what you are supposed to be looking at, they're not great. I think each link such as 'Trains', 'Rivers', 'Saints' etc... should be linked individually, not listed without any direct links to them. Please get back to me soon as I want to change the land divisions section at least but won't do so immediately if I hear back your point of view shortly as I don't wish to argue online. I wish to return them to the geography section. Thank you. Comhar (talk) 16:32, 4 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

My intention was to make the layout similar to the other counties of Ireland, most of which keep the 'Towns & Villages' section separate from the 'Geography' section. Personally I think baronies shouldn't be mentioned at all, as they are no longer used to define boundaries. But if you think they are of special importance to Mayo, you may move them back to the top of the article, to the 'Geography' section.

I understand your concern regarding the 'Media' section. Therefore, in addition to the podcasts, I will mention radio stations and newspapers. This will make the 'Media' section more complete. Thank you Gary1505 (talk) 17:04, 4 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

That looks good on the media. I put links onto all the individual podcasts because it wasn't that easy to find them from the way it was set up. You've probably noticed I've tried to tidy it up too - it had got a bit unruly. Hopefully between us we can do some decent housekeeping. (ps - hope you don't mind - I have returned my land boundaries (on the Barony divisions) piece to the Geography section. For some reason in Mayo these names are commonly used. I don't know why. I realise that they are not used much elsewhere and that most people in the east of the country would not have a clue what Barony they were in. These are kind of like Artane, Rathfarnham, Tallaght, Lucan, Clontarf etc... are to Dublin (except they're larger areas mostly). We'll see how it goes. Slainte Comhar (talk) 18:41, 4 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Comhar i'm also doing the same for Northern Ireland baronies. Yeah they have no use anymore but they are still important in historical terms as most are based on minor ancient Irish territories, as well as most of their names, getting mentions in the Annals etc. There is no reason for their exclusion from the article. They can be put into a sub-section of the geography or history sections of county articles. Example of the way its been done for Northern Ireland. Mabuska ^(talk) 19:08, 4 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Ireland

You need to read WP:LOWERCASE because your headers are improperly capitalised. ww2censor (talk) 17:52, 5 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Retired

This user is no longer active on Wikipedia as of 5 July 2010.

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