User talk:Mais oui!/Archive 12

UK Geography Poll - Sock Puppetry

Hi. I am also getting concerned as to the validity of the poll. You might like to view [[1]] for information of catching sock puppets.

Best Mdcollins1984 10:30, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

Categories such as "1994 in Law"

I noticed your amendment to Jamieson v. HMA. I see you've taken the year of the case from the SLT reference. It may well be that Jamieson was decided and the judgment delivered in the same year as it was reported in the Scots Law Times but this is not necessarily the case. I've left it as the matter is a bit pernickety but just thought I should alert you to this. At one point Session Cases and Justiciary Cases (SC, JC) reports were lagging two years behind the actual year of judgment.--Lucifer(sc) 13:37, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

Current-UK-MP-stub

Hi Mais Oui, as the creator of {{UK-current-MP-stub}}, I have just posted a reply to the SFD for Current British MP stubs, and wondered if you would like to take a look and consider voting aginst deletione. As posted there, having populated the category, it contains over 300 articles, and there are many reasons why I think that this stub category is both viable and useful. Thanks! --BrownHairedGirl 15:14, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

Oh lordy. When will this end? The horror, the horror... --Mais oui! 15:22, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

Removal of poll on Welsh nationalism

Please see the Welsh nationalism talk page before reverting my edit of the poll. As you have noted, "Polls should only be used if their methodology is transparent". The source for this poll does not provide that. Please strive to be consistent in your editing. Thanks. Normalmouth 21:05, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

One tier

It states :-

"Tiered government (a name for each level of local government e.g Truro, Cornwall, UK or Edinburgh, Scotland UK)"

Ignoring the fact that UK and Scotland are not local governement, the examples given involve every tier. The one tier idea seems to be option 2. josh (talk) 07:24, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

New South Wales

You recently added that NSW was named for South Wales. As a New South Welshman, over the years I have heard both this and that it was named for Wales, the south referring to the southern hemisphere. The South Wales version is simpler, but I have never seen a reliable source for either one. Can you shed any light on the matter? JPD (talk) 09:40, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

List of sports flops

Hi there. In fact, the AfD that I closed was Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List Of Sports Busts, which was a no consensus. Whether it was keep or no consensus, it having been a good number of months you'll be fine going ahead with a new AfD. People will of course point out that it has been tried unsucessfully twice before, and you'll have to justify very very clearly why a new AfD should be considered, but 'ethically' I think you're fine. -Splash - tk 13:07, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

Wikiproject Scotland

Hi there. I think Wikiproject Scotland can probably begin seeing as it has 12 interested members. Give me a shout when/if it starts and I'll give you a hand promoting it etc. Cheers.  Edits  AntzUK  Talk  23:17, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

IP Address issue

Hello Mais oui. That was indeed my contribution. I was unaware that I was not logged on. I shall have to create a sock puppet thingy. Thankyou. Lofty 11:57, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

Request for discussion on edits and page moves on Welsh nationalism/Welsh self-government

Hi. Can I make a further appeal for you to discuss with me changes to the above article, either made directly by you or at your behest? It is impossible to see how consensus can be reached on the topic otherwise. You said in the complaint made against you by User:Mallimak that "you routinely have to revert [my] edits because they are consistently, and heavily, POV." If so, please, please try and discuss them with me before you move to reverting. I have worked with a number of others to reach consensus on wording for this and other articles, including Plaid Cymru. I have absolutely no inention at all of stopping contributing to Wikipedia, so it really is best if we try and work out our differences. What do you say? Normalmouth 14:58, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

Your "request for deletion" of the List of impoprtant operas

This seems an extreme position to take with first posting something on the Talk page to raise concerns.

As I member of the Wiki opera Group, I think that you are overreacting. Let's all discuss the criteria for inclusion.

Vivaverdi 00:08, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

No personal attacks

"The fact that the only user who has created English company categories is Scottish... shows that they are not appropriate."

That is a clear breach of WP:NPA: "Using someone's affiliations as a means of dismissing or discrediting their views."

Please see Wikipedia's no personal attacks policy. Comment on content, not on the contributor; personal attacks damage the community and deter users. Note that continued personal attacks may lead to blocks for disruption. Please stay cool and keep this in mind while editing. Thank you. --Mais oui! 16:20, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

That is not a personal attack, but many of your comments on Wikipedia:Categories for discussion are. I can only laugh out loud that someone as short tempered as you is telling others to keep cool (at the same time as threatening them with blocks, which you don't have the means to impose without opening up your own conduct to examination, and if that happened you would be far more likely to get blocked yourself). I was making a legitimate point about your biased POV. To quote Astrotrain in reply to one of your vicious rants, "I think the point he [Osomec] is making is that only you, a user with a distinct anti-British POV is creating these English categories, and that there is no demand from English Wikipedians to cut up the British categories." It is absolutely essential that the underlying basis of your attempts to disrupt Wikipedia are explained to users who are not familiar with your long track record of misconduct, vicious personal attacks and utter hypocrisy. I suggest you should be blocked for one month. Osomec 08:49, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

TfD nomination of Template:Scotland infobox

Template:Scotland infobox has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. --Durin 18:20, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

List of the monarchs of the Kingdom of England

Hi Mais oui!, I noticed you were involved in a dispute with User:TharkunColl over at this article about the name. He is still doing cut-and-paste moves, and has now created an article called List of monarchs of England and Great Britain. Would appreciate your input. --JW1805 (Talk) 02:45, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

I did not create that article, I simply retitled it. All reference books list monarchs of England and then Great Britain. TharkunColl 02:47, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

Middlesex Cricket Board

Hi. Just to let you know that WikiProject Cricket is using certain categories as generic to hold various related sub-categories. We have a separate category for governing bodies and administrative units. This article is already in that category, as it should be because it is very useful, but I am removing it from the generic category:Cricket in England - if we left it in there we would have to populate the category with all governing body articles and that is not what the category is designed for. Regards. --BlackJack | ^{talk page} 05:36, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

Northern Ireland cricketers

Hello again. Northern Ireland may be part of the UK but its people are not technically British. Any cricketer in Northern Ireland is Irish both by virtue of nationality and of international team since the Irish Cricket Union encompasses both the component countries, as does rugby football.

It is therefore incorrect on all counts to include a Northern Irish player in category:British cricketers. He should be in category:Irish cricketers only. However, it's a minor technicality only so I'll leave it. The thing is that if a Northern Ireland player was good enough to play Test cricket, he would actually play for England!

If you are interested in cricket, would you like to please join the cricket project as new members are always welcome? Regards. --BlackJack | ^{talk page} 14:02, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

Country / Place names

Hi. Can you take a look at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents and possibly tell me what you think about my request> -- Maelor  19:47, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

Orphaned fair use image (Image:SOCA.jpg)

This file may be deleted.

Thanks for uploading Image:SOCA.jpg. I notice the 'image' page currently specifies that the image is unlicensed for use on Wikipedia and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently orphaned, meaning that it is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful.

If you have uploaded other unlicensed media, please check whether they're used in any articles or not. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that any fair use images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Kevin_b_er 01:05, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

Scottish celebrities

Was Category:Scottish celebrities empty when you last saw it? It's tagged with an incorrect speedy delete tag and is currently empty - i'm minded to deleted it, but It'd be good to find out if someone has been clearing it out... Thanks/wangi 20:34, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

It is not a major issue, but Alan Mcilwraith does not really qualify as a "Scottish celebrity" so do not be surprised if somebody removes this again.--Ianmacm 08:29, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Scotland

Hi Mais, good work in getting this up and running. I've not been overly productive of late and didn't manage to contribute to the initial discussions, but will toddle along in time, add myself to the member list and start some proper work. Cheers. --Cactus.man ✍ 13:30, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

Tapadh leibh!

Thusly is
Mais oui!
awarded this Scottish Barnstar of National Merit for of his tirless and selfless furthering of the presence of Scotland on Wikipedia.

Tapadh leibh!

File:Icons-flag-scotland.png Canæn File:Icons-flag-scotland.png

I've been gone a few months, but I'm back. I took a look at all the notices you've been leaving me. I'm not ready to jump back in to everything, but I will make an effort to be around. It looks like you've been hard at work, what with transfering things to the WikiProject, and covering every problem that comes up. It's high time an award for Scotland came in to existence, and I can think of no other so deserving as yourself. File:Icons-flag-scotland.png Canæn File:Icons-flag-scotland.png 07:18, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

Project 'claims' or 'ownership'

Hey Mais oui! With regard to our discussion on my talk page on this subject, I've been meaning to give you a link to this section of the V1.0 Editorial Team talk. Basically I think the consensus at the minute is that if multiple tags are on articles (talk pages) then that's a Good Thing. And that makes sense to me - after all, the more editors we can attract to the articles, the more likely we are to get them improved. :) --Mal 18:56, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

Sorry to butt in - wised up WikiProjects are now generally claiming that articles are "within their scope" rather than "part of WikiProject X". Of course it's quite possible for an article to be within the scope of more than one project. Also by claiming only part of scope it's not annoying people who worked on an article only to have a Project come in and claim "ownership" of it. --kingboyk 19:15, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

That sounds fair enough - its a matter of politeness really. :) I'll have a look and make the relevant changes to 'my' projects. --Mal 01:13, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

Sean Connery

Please don't revert changes without one word of explanation. —Chowbok 20:04, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

Wikiproject: Scotland

Thank you for your message, and invitation to join Wikiproject:Scotland. I have added my name to the list of members. Regards Astrotrain 13:09, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

Callanish

If you get a second, could you have a quick look at my comment and suggestion here and let me know what your thoughts are? Cheers! Lianachan 16:19, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

Poll Tax Riots

From Talk:Poll Tax Riots Would you be prepared to make the following compromise:

• change the first sentence to "The Poll Tax Riots, as they became known, were major acts of civil disobedience carried out in London."
• Move into the new subcat Category:Riots in London
• Put in the categories Category:1990 in the United Kingdom (it has UK wide significance) and Category:1990 in England (it occured geographically within England).

? Tim! 21:35, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

"Crookery"

No problem whatsoever. I actually "stold" it long ago from another user. It has gone through a number of permutations in the meantime. I appreciate those who take time to use a template like this. I really think it helps new users know how things work in our community. Best, Kukini 16:11, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

Scrooge v. Libertarianism

I've added a section “Scrooge v. Libertarianism” to the the talk page for Ebenezer Scrooge. —75.18.113.152 06:06, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

Biography Newsletter September 2006

The September 2006 issue of the Biography WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you. plange 23:55, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

Scottish companies

But these should be tagged only as {{Scotland-stub}}s and not as organizations - they're companies and not organizations.--Carabinieri^T_T^a_a^l_l^k_k 21:22, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

• Theoretically I'd agree with you - companies merely are a type of economic organizations, but {{company-stub}} is not a child of {{org-stub}}. On the other hand I just noticed that the companies-category is a child of the organizations-category, so I guess we (the StubSorting Project) just might be wrong in how we categorized things. The best solution might be to make {{company-stub}} a child of org-stub and then tag the articles in question as Scotland-org-stubs.--Carabinieri^T_T^a_a^l_l^k_k 21:31, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

Discussion currently underway at List of major opera composers, List of important operas and the article Opera regarding POV and sources

I read your comments during the AfD of the List of important operas and thought that you would be interested in reading what is currently happening on the page Talk:List of major opera composers and Talk:Opera regarding sourcing materials and correcting POV statements. It seems that there have been quite a bit of sloppy editting going on in the area of Opera for quite some time and that there is a great deal of resistence to change. I would like to have your view of these discussions and perhaps some ideas for solutions, if you've got time. cordially Musikfabrik 09:50, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

Scotland Infobox

If you object to my changes to the infobox, I'm very happy to discuss them with you - and hopefully arrive t a satisfactory solution. But 'restore infobox' isn't a reasoned discussion, it is just reverting without explanation. Take it to the talk page. --Doc 12:41, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

link to Basque Country

Hello, when you want to link to the article about the Basque Country, please do not link to Basque Country, as that is a disambiguation page (which nothing should be linked to). Instead link to the one of the options found on that page such as Basque Country (autonomous community) by writing out [[Basque Country (autonomous community)|Basque Country]]. Regards, Jeff3000 21:10, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

Counties of Scotland

Added a comment on this article which you also contributed to, regarding your rebuke to that Owain, Yorkshire Phoenix Association of British Counties-type mob. Benson85 23:28, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

What time o day div ye ca this

Gee whiz, man. Ye're either up very late or very early! Editing Wikipedia at this time in the morning ? -- Derek Ross | Talk 06:05, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

Wickedness is it, <grin> ? Well, well, I'll leave you to your evil ways then. It's midnight here and that's late enough for me. A soft and comfortable bed is calling to me and it's sounding better and better! Cheers -- Derek Ross | Talk 06:13, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

National Gallery of Scotland

Hi Mais, thanks for the note. Nice work and a good start on expanding the article. I didn't realise how under developed our gallery articles were. I'm still not feeling particularly creative at the moment, but I'll don the thinking cap and go ferretting around other gallery articles to make a start on assessing how things can be improved. This could be a nice project to convert me back to a "proper" editor again :-) --Cactus.man ✍ 07:55, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for starting the survey on Orkney. Having made the request, I wasn't sure how to proceed. Abtract 08:38, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

Wells, a dressed wi' clooties or no'

Thanks for your help sorting out the well dressing, clootie well, etc issues! --Kathryn NicDhàna 19:04, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

Pleasure. --Mais oui! 19:24, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

K&A canal

Ages ago yu added some content to the article on the Kennet and Avon Canal. I've done some work on this and the Locks on the Kennet and Avon Canal and have put them both up for featured status see discussions at Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Locks on the Kennet and Avon Canal & Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Kennet and Avon Canal/archive1. I'd be grateful if you had anything you could add to either article or the discussions. — Rod ^talk 12:09, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

Convener = Lord Provost?

Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994 Section 4(7) The convener of each of the councils of the cities of Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh and Glasgow shall, with effect from 1st April 1996, be known by the title of "Lord Provost", and the convener of each other council shall be known by such title as that council may decide: Provided that no such other council may, without the consent of the Secretary of State, decide that their convener shall be known by the title of "Lord Provost".[2] Lozleader 20:18, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

According to Edinburgh City Council "The Provost is also Convener of the Council and continues to carry out the normal duties of an elected member, so fulfils both political and ceremonial duties."[3]

From Glasgow's site: "Under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1994 all Councils must elect a convener (chair) from among the elected councillors. Councils can change the title of Convener to Provost, Chair or whatever they consider appropriate. However, the Conveners of the cities of Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Dundee are to be known as Lord Provost." [4]

Aberdeen and Dundee don't seem to use the term convener (except for committees) as far as I can see.

Lozleader 20:40, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

This is getting confusing! Councillor is chair of the executive... I haven't seen listed as the convener... He is the convener of the executive which is also the leader of the executive, but the executive is just acommittee of the council isn't it???

Lozleader 20:51, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

Crossed messages! I think we agree. Should I revert the page? Lozleader 20:53, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

List of important operas

I'm not sure if you're thinking of nominating this list for deletion again: but if so, could I ask you to wait. We've all been fixing the List of major opera composers, using 61 inline citations and independant sources to compile the list. I fully realise that an identical "rescue job" needs to be performed. Best, Moreschi 16:57, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

Orkney

Your latest edit doesn't make sense; maybe you would like to try again.Abtract 22:31, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

Mossley

I thought you may be interested in this. It could potentially set a standard which other users would want to role out elsewhere. Jhamez84 22:56, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

--We would also certainly benefit from your input at this talk page. Keep up the great work! Thanks, Jhamez84 00:07, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

Leave it!

Look, Mallimka is blocked for now. Know when to stop. -Splash - tk 22:48, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

Checkuser may or may not be appropriate, but continuing to make what are certain to be provocative edits to a blocked user's talk page, particularly when it is principally you who is 'benefitting' from the block is not a good course of action. File a checkuser if you like, although you might wait until Mallimak's block expires out of courtesy, but don't be provocative while he's already unhappen. He just got blocked for being provocative, so it's not a road that has a happy ending. -Splash - tk 23:01, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

No, I'm not planning to file a checkuser request. If you want one done, then it's up to you to see to that. If you are already satisfied with what an earlier checkuser has reported then I don't see the need for another. Mallimak is not able to "make a mockery of the project" whilst he cannot edit it. Take solace in that fact, at least. -Splash - tk 23:12, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

Old version

How bizarre. Thanks for letting me know. Mrsteviec 08:52, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

Wikimail

I have sent you two wikimail. If you don't want to answer... that is fine. I am writing here simply in case you do not usually check the email address you registered here. // habj 11:44, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

Talk:List of RSPB reserves

Hi - could I point you towards this page as you have contributed to this list (& still are active). I think it could be improved but would rather have a wider range of views. If you are not interested sorry to bother you. Regards --Herby ^{talk to me} 10:18, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

Not just the birds that migrate then! I found a couple yesterday. Thanks for the input, good to have it and I'll get back to you and the article after polishing the brain --Herby ^{talk to me} 10:36, 9 October 2006 (UTC)