User talk:Kennethmacalpine

July 2024

Please stop introducing links to disambiguation pages as you have done here, here, here and I dare say on many other places. Your edit here not only introduced a disambiguation link, but also completely changed the name of one of the authors of a reference. DuncanHill (talk) 10:33, 5 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, I'm DuncanHill. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions to Cadwallon ap Cadfan have been undone because they did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use your sandbox. If you have any questions, you can ask for assistance at the Teahouse or the Help desk. You claimed to "fix refs" but in fact introduced a number of incorrect changes in the text DuncanHill (talk) 10:35, 5 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@DuncanHill Note my partial block below. Doug Weller talk 09:41, 15 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

A discussion concerning your edits

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you.DuncanHill (talk) 10:51, 5 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

"Fixed refs and citations"

Re: this edit - please could you explain what you mean by "fixed"? You don't seem to have fixed anything, but you have made other changes throughout the article. DuncanHill (talk) 06:56, 6 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Repaired Kennethmacalpine (talk) 07:00, 6 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

But how? In what way? They were working before. What do you think needed to be repaired? DuncanHill (talk) 07:06, 6 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

They are still working. Kennethmacalpine (talk) 07:13, 6 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Are you going to answer the question? What do you mean by "fixed"? You haven't fixed them, you haven't repaired them, what do you think you have done? DuncanHill (talk) 07:16, 6 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Are you a troll? Kennethmacalpine (talk) 07:18, 6 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You have repeatedly made bad edits, you now repeatedly make edits with misleading edit summaries, and refuse to explain what you mean. DuncanHill (talk) 07:20, 6 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

See my work in View history. Kennethmacalpine (talk) 07:24, 6 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I have been looking at your edits, that is why I asked. DuncanHill (talk) 07:27, 6 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You are a troll. Kennethmacalpine (talk) 07:28, 6 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Kennethmacalpine Are you going to withdraw this accusation? If not expect to be blocked. Doug Weller talk 13:27, 6 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I withdraw. Kennethmacalpine (talk) 20:36, 6 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@DuncanHill No response to your question and see below. Doug Weller talk 09:48, 8 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Avoid unconstructive edits

@Kennethmacalpine Really? Why would you be changing CE to AD? CE is currently regarded as a neutral term and you should not be adding that anymore, as you did here. You even added this < inside the sentence before although in the same edit above. Country pages are very sensitive and you shouldn't be adding unconstructive or testing edits like that. Again, avoid your false edit summaries. What has "review" (as an edit summary) to do with unconstructive changes? Tumbuka Arch (talk) 08:49, 8 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'd like to know also. Your edit summaries could be called deceptive and in some cases hide a major change in era style. Doug Weller talk 09:47, 8 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

July, 2024, part two

Hello. Can you please be more careful with your edits, and conform to the community's guidelines and practices, and not just do what you want, which seems to be the way you are currently behaving.

Here you indicated that you changed the infobox; you also, in fact, changed the short description (possibly needlessly), you change the lead sentence, moving around the man's names, giving an incorrect translation in the process, you changed the dynasty he was a member of to a clearly incorrect branch of the House of Gwynedd, and you needlessly added wlinks to common and obvious nouns. I have corrected some of this, and will be correcting more.
Here, among other things, you changed the template we use to indicate the language in the article from {{Use Welsh English}} to {{Use British English}}! I cannot imagine what prompted you to do this on the page of a man undeniably Welsh; certainly the one redirects to the other, but who is to say that at some point there may not be a reason for the former to exist, in which case your change is going to have been harmful, while at this point it is not necessary at all (because of the redirect). In addition, you again changed the short description, calling Dafydd "king" rather than "prince", which does not seem to be correct.
Here you reverted a user of reasonable experience (nearly ten thousand edits, compared to your two hundred) who had undone your changes with a very clear and specific reason Unexplained changes, no sources to back up, but you gave no explanation at all for your revert.

These are just three of your edits that there are problems with, i picked them almost at random, so i suspect that there are many more. I don't know if anyone has put a welcome template on your talk page yet, i haven't checked, but guessing that they have not, i am going to in just a moment, because these templates have a super list of links for the new and newer editors to look at and read, in order to help them (you) become better editors and functioning members of the community. Happy days, ~ Lindsay^Hello 13:14, 14 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

As promised, Welcome!

Welcome...

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

Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or click here to ask a question on your talk page. Again, welcome! Happy days, ~ Lindsay^Hello 13:15, 14 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello and thank you for your comments. Can you blue me? André. Kennethmacalpine (talk) 22:06, 14 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure what you mean by "blue me"; assuming you mean turning your username blue in links, i have created your userpage by putting a meaningless character on it. It's up to you, though, to decide what you actually want on your userpage.

It is, i'm afraid, almost entirely meaningless for you to thank me for my comments without bothering to read them or, if you did, to take them in. I see that you have, since i wrote here yesterday, reverted me with no summary or comment on Malawi, and put Hywel Dda back into the wrong dynasty and changed the way his name was presented (which another user has changed back). Please take the time to read my comments and understand what i (and others) say here: It's not merely empty mouthing, but we care about the encyclopaedia and are attempting to help you to do so, too. Thank you. Happy days, ~ Lindsay^Hello 06:13, 15 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

First name in leads

Under MOS:FULLNAME and MOS:BIOALTNAME we usually have the full name first, followed by the common name (epithet) if any, like Alexander the Great not starting with "Alexander the Great". If the common name were entirely different and unconnected to their full/birth name or became their actual name then it may be used first in those cases. Dank Jae 22:23, 14 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Source for Dafydd ap Gruffydd being king?

I've reverted you back to Prince. Doug Weller talk 09:25, 15 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

See List of rulers of Gwynedd. Kennethmacalpine (talk) 16:46, 15 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Which lists him as a prince with the source saying ".Pierce, Thomas Jones (1959). "Dafydd ap Gruffydd (David III died 1283), prince of Gwynedd". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales."

So why are you telling me to look at it? Doug Weller talk 16:50, 15 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This is the list of kings of Gwynedd. Kennethmacalpine (talk) 17:16, 15 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

And that’s why I question your ability to edit here. List of rulers of Gwynedd is not a list of kings. Dafydd ap Gruffydd is listed under the section heading “Princes of Wales”. You dont understand the article at all.Doug Weller talk 18:20, 15 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I understand now. But not everything was bad in my edit of the article. Kennethmacalpine (talk) 18:28, 15 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

July 2024

You have been blocked from editing from certain namespaces ((Article)) for a period of 1 week for abuse of editing privileges. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions.

If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please review Wikipedia's guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text to the bottom of your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}. Doug Weller talk 09:26, 15 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not convinced that you will be able to follow our policies and guidelines. For the next week you can only edit talk pages. If you can't give convincing responses to the questions and issues raised above during that week, I'm afraid an indefinite block from the project may be necessary. Doug Weller (talk • contribs) 09:29, 15 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not use styles that are nonstandard, unusual, inappropriate or difficult to understand in articles. There is a Manual of Style, and edits should not deliberately go against it without special reason. Please note that mdashes are unspaced on wikipedia and ellipses are generally preceded by a non-breaking space. DrKay (talk) 06:32, 24 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Special warning + advice

@Kennethmacalpine, your responses above are sort of mixed. On one hand, you show characterictics of a newbie who still has not yet been directed well around Wikipedia policies and has so much to learn. On the other hand though, you seem like a user who is not exactly new, does vandalism in a conny way and does not want to listen and implement what others are advising/saying. This is backed up by not responding to talk messages above and keeping on doing the same thing.
That aside, you are currently blocked for 1 week for not responding to talk messages. My advice is that:
1. take this time to read Wikipedia policies. Also, see why other users are posting about other users on WP:ANI and learn from them.
2. don't try to create a new user account and continue the same behaviour. When caught doing so, you will be blocked indefinitely (permanently) in a case called WP:Sockpuppetry.
3. When you are back to editing, try to respond to talk messages and avoid reverting other users without giving a solid reason.

Once upon a time, there was this user XYZ here who did same. Did not bother to respond to talk messages, and did what they liked best until it was too late. Note that the first block was not intended to be permanent; it was the sockpuppetry among other edit patterns that made it permanent.

So, take your time and learn.

Also, you can remove this message anytime if you don't want it.Thanks.--Tumbuka Arch (talk) 14:16, 17 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

August 2024

Hello. In a recent edit to the page Church of Norway, you changed one or more words or styles from one national variety of English to another. Because Wikipedia has readers from all over the world, our policy is to respect national varieties of English in Wikipedia articles.

For a subject exclusively related to the United Kingdom (for example, a famous British person), use British English. For something related to the United States in the same way, use American English. For something related to another English-speaking country, such as Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, India, or Pakistan, use the variety of English used there. For an international topic, use the form of English that the first author of the article used.

In view of that, please don't change articles from one version of English to another, even if you don't normally use the version in which the article is written. Respect other people's versions of English. They, in turn, should respect yours. Other general guidelines on how Wikipedia articles are written can be found in the Manual of Style. If you have any questions about this, you can ask me on my talk page or visit the help desk. Thank you. TylerBurden (talk) 18:16, 18 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Doug Weller Pinging you as latest acting admin here since the editor seems to still not have gotten the point, given that they are repeatedly changing American English to British English without any valid reason as seen here and then restoring the same edit after being reverted here. TylerBurden (talk) 19:42, 19 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@TylerBurden late for me and I’ve had. Bad day. I see he is also changing date styles. I’ll probably block him tomorrow. Feel free to revert his bad edits. Doug Weller talk 20:25, 19 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Doug Weller I'm sorry to hear that you had a bad day, no stress, just making you aware. TylerBurden (talk) 20:27, 19 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for persistently making disruptive edits.

If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please review Wikipedia's guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text to the bottom of your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}. Doug Weller talk 08:46, 20 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]