User talk:RashersTierney/Archive 6

Pin Coordinates

I use this site here: http://www.gridreference.ie/

It gives the Longitude Latitude, altitude, Irish Grid Referenc. Ire2500

Experience

Hi, I recall having a discussion with you previously about your talent for tracking down socks. In your opinion, do you see anything suspicious about User:Mister Flash and User:MidnightBlueMan? I've no experience in looking at these things although to my inexperienced eyes, they appear at the very least to be working in tandem and tag teaming. Since they troll my edits, I've no doubt that they will take the time to comment here and it may even lead to some disruption - if so, I apologize in advance. --HighKing (talk) 21:15, 1 June 2010 (UTC)

Why don't you just bother about your compex event processing or Irish cheeses? Do us all a favour. You are joking aren't you? I might just as well accuse you and Mullan of being socks. As for tag teaming - no. We just have similar intersts in stopping you pushing your POV. MidnightBlue (Talk) 21:35, 1 June 2010 (UTC)

Crash and burn Time-wasters beware. RashersTierney (talk) 22:57, 9 June 2010 (UTC)

HighKing

You may be interested in this Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/HighKing/Archive. It seems that HighKing is also a sock. Being one himself maybe that's how he spotted the other two. I'm contemplating re-listing the case against HighKing but I'm not sure if it would be productive. What would be your advice. LevenBoy (talk) 09:20, 10 June 2010 (UTC)

My advice is simple. Don't sock! Its a pain in the ass for all concerned. RashersTierney (talk) 01:50, 13 June 2010 (UTC)

Yes, but what about the HighKing case? He's dabbled in socking and I've now found another one that's probably him, user Fionnghlas. Is it worth reporting? LevenBoy (talk) 11:15, 14 June 2010 (UTC)

Looks very thin, but you might drop the admin who dealt with the initial SPI, User talk:Amalthea, a note. He is probably in the best position to address this. RashersTierney (talk) 12:18, 14 June 2010 (UTC)

Hi, would you be so kind as to give us support!

Hello, I hope you're doing fine and I sincerely apologize for this intrusion. I've just read your profile and I understood that you're an Irishman (I wish I can visit your wonderful country some time soon!) and that you also have interest in other people like Romanis, so you understand what are a minorized language and culture and maybe I am not bothering you and you will help us... I'm a member of a Catalan association "Amical de la Viquipèdia" which is trying to get some recognition as a Catalan Chapter but this hasn't been approved up to that moment. We would appreciate your support, visible if you stick this on your first page: Wikimedia CAT. Supporting us will be like giving equal opportunity to minorized languages and cultures in the future! Thanks again, wishing you a great summer, take care! Keep on preserving your great culture, country, music and language! Slán agat! Capsot (talk) 11:22, 11 June 2010 (UTC)

Happy to lend support to neighbours and friends in Barcelona, Sant Pol de Mar and surrounding area. Consider it a token pay-back for long term hospitality and friendship. Best. RashersTierney (talk) 11:59, 11 June 2010 (UTC)

Many thanks, I hope you'll enjoy even more your next stays here! Bye! Capsot (talk) 19:44, 11 June 2010 (UTC)

Thanks again, I'll be greatly indebted to you!!! Actually I tried it this way but some people have been inactive for ages so you may lose a lot of time and some others are Catalan contributors and I have left very little people there without messages and I prefer not to have them counted twice. So I try to focus on the recent changes list and to see the userboxes mainly languages or interests to be sure not to bother and to seek potential supporters (I have a great pleasure when I see they're Irish because Irish are really nice and very supportive, Scottish and Welsh too; it's curious however that in the Irish Wikipedia nobody seems to care... well I'll give it some more tries!). Thanks again for your stout support, if you ever need something from me just let me know I'll be glad to help the best I can. Have a wonderful and sunny Sunday! Capsot (talk) 14:55, 20 June 2010 (UTC)

Sorry to hear that replies have been slow at Vicipéid, hopefully that will change. Also hope you didn't mind my little teasing at Sarah's page. All meant in good fun. Thanks for your kind words and again, good luck. RashersTierney (talk) 15:42, 20 June 2010 (UTC)

Famine edit

My idea was to point out that, while there were English and Anglo-Irish landlords, there were just as many who were Irish, both by descent and self-definition. As were the majority of the agents and middlemen, come to think of it. Fergananim (talk) 21:53, 14 June 2010 (UTC)

This edit - begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 0 7171 4011 3 end_of_the_skype_highlighting begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 0 7171 4011 3 end_of_the_skype_highlightin here was solely the target of my revert and 'Irish' was in fact collateral damage and not noticed by me at the time (on its inclusion or otherwise I have no strong feelings one way or the other and would not object if it was removed again by you or another ed). I've seen similar strings of incoherent characters before, obviously related in some way to 'skype', but don't know how they come about or if their visibility is somehow dependent on browser used or some other user-defined setting. Any ideas? NOTE on my initial attempt to post this edit, this notice block -

• Warning: It appears that you are a user of a Skype extension for FireFox. This extension has a known bug that at times inserts extra text into editable fields on webpages, such as the edit text box here on Wikipedia. These text strings, such as begin_of_the_skype_highlighting and end_of_the_skype_highlighting have been detected in this edit. Please remove these text strings manually before trying to save your changes. To address the root cause of the problem you can follow the instructions to disable the Skype extension here. If you are not using the Skype toolbar, please click 'Save page' again, and report this error.
• appeared on screen warning of a possible Skype-relateed Firefox extension which AFAIK I don't have. Seem to be getting a little closer to the root of the problem. Could it be that you've enabled 'a Skype extension for FireFox' ? RashersTierney (talk) 22:49, 14 June 2010 (UTC)

Sorry about that. I think I've managed it. Fergananim (talk) 00:37, 15 June 2010 (UTC)

No prob. Glad we got to the cause of it all. RashersTierney (talk) 00:42, 15 June 2010 (UTC)

Reviewer user-right

Hello. Your account has been granted the "reviewer" userright, allowing you to review other users' edits on certain flagged pages. Pending changes, also known as flagged protection, will be commencing a two-month trial at approximately 23:00, 2010 June 15 (UTC).

Reviewers can review edits made by users who are not autoconfirmed to articles placed under flagged protection. Flagged protection is applied to only a small number of articles, similarly to how semi-protection is applied but in a more controlled way for the trial.

When reviewing, edits should be accepted if they are not obvious vandalism or BLP violations, and not clearly problematic in light of the reason given for protection (see Wikipedia:Reviewing process). More detailed documentation and guidelines can be found here.

If you do not want this userright, you may ask any administrator to remove it for you at any time. – B.hotep •talk• 22:25, 15 June 2010 (UTC)

Many thanks. I've been watching this notice pop up around the place. Good initiative. Happy to 'do my bit'. RashersTierney (talk) 22:28, 15 June 2010 (UTC)

Re: Re-adding coat of arms

The editor maintaining issue admitted there was no flaw in the accuracy or depiction. Simply because now he is resorting to "it's ugly" does not matter. That was not the issue, and it is a last resort after the argument failed on the revert notice board, conflict of interest notice board, original research notice board and the WikiProject Heraldry, which do not take aesthetics into consideration. [tk] XANDERLIPTAK 13:02, 25 June 2010 (UTC)

Passports

Really... really no. It's a privacy issue, amongst many other reasons. DS (talk) 00:59, 2 July 2010 (UTC)

I have no idea what was going on there, and no wish to know. It was a simple question with no hidden meaning. I've applied the info I intended. RashersTierney (talk) 01:27, 2 July 2010 (UTC)

Pin co-ordinates

After a quiet chuckle that you would ask me how to do anything on Wikipedia I'll tell you how I get pin co-ordinates in place. Either copy and paste an infobox from the site of an area close by to the one you want to add coordinates to, or look at its infobox in edit mode. Note where the little marker is on that map. If the pin co-ords are for example - 90px and 40px - make them (just by retyping the figures) 110px and 60px (adding 20 to each of them so that you can see what way they move - first one is left to right movement, second one is top to bottom movement) and then click the show preview button. Note in what direction the marker point has moved and then simply adjust them accordingly (either adding more or subtracting some pixels) until you have the marker in the exact right spot (using show preview to check its position). OK, its not exactly technical but it works!! And I would'nt be able to use Wikipedia if I didn't think outside of the box most of the time! Good luck! Comhar (talk) 17:28, 3 July 2010 (UTC)

Very comprehensive response, Grasshopper :- ) Haven't tried it yet but it makes sense now; not only how but why. Much appreciated. RashersTierney (talk) 19:49, 3 July 2010 (UTC)

Hi, just before Big Brother starts, I decided to take a look at Marlfield, then your msg came in. You will see, if you look now that I have added a second info box to this article which I took from Clonmel. I filled in the same stuff as you had on the Marlfield one and then I moved the first co-ord a couple (or was it three?) miles to the west as described. I'm sure you can sort it out from here. I'd say Big Brother'll be on soon and it takes precedence over Wiki! Sad really! Comhar (talk) 19:55, 3 July 2010 (UTC)

Both endeavors a touch sad and addictive. Thanks again for taking the time. RashersTierney (talk) 19:59, 3 July 2010 (UTC)

Adminship

Thanks for your comment. I've responded at the same location. --RA (talk) 16:11, 4 July 2010 (UTC)

Sorry

Do I know you from somewhere? IronDuke 23:00, 9 July 2010 (UTC)

Not that I remember. RashersTierney (talk) 23:02, 9 July 2010 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for your backup on the Golden Team edits -- 'twas very much appreciated. I was beginning to worry I had lost my grip on the English language!! The user who objected seems to have reverted several similar edits other users made under a different account, so no doubt that's the way mine will go too. Still, at least I tried :) ANB (talk) 12:22, 10 July 2010 (UTC)

No prob. Sometimes less really is more, as in this case. RashersTierney (talk) 16:06, 10 July 2010 (UTC)

Level of involvement

As you have commented here, could you please state your level of involvement (if any) next to your support/oppose/comment in that discussion? Although all input would/should be considered, this will help clarify a community consensus from a local consensus among involved users. Thank you, Ncmvocalist (talk) 19:40, 12 July 2010 (UTC)

Gypsy

Do you mean the current revision? It is due to "repairs" by JHunterJ (talk · contribs). This user tends to follow me around to "repair" disambiguation pages I create. We are rather annoyed with one another. I think he is a brainless shell script (or at least a human user who fails the Turing test), with no grasp of what it means to understand what is going on with a term, and he thinks I am disruptively violating some of the more obsrure disambiguation guidelines.

But if you like his current work on Gypsy, I am not going to complain. I just note how two of the three primary links, including the one that used to be the main Gypsy page, are now delegated to "see also". I.e. the terminology discussion at Gypy (term) and the Gypsy (stereotype).

In my book, "Gypsy" needs to be disambiguated as

1. Gypsy (term)
2. Gypsy (people)
3. Gypsy (stereotype)
4. generalized usage (sublist with other peoples)
5. proper name (sublist of titles etc.)

I frankly find JHunterJ's edits idiotic, they once again miss the main point completely. But I am not going to bother and try to explain stuff to this editor again, I'll just try to revert his more abysmal edits occasionally. --dab (𒁳) 15:16, 14 July 2010 (UTC)

No. I meant specifically your edits, which I noticed some time back. My comment was not immediately prompted by the current version (which I have not followed as I thought, with your 'hands on', all would be well). I saw your name come up on my watch list on an unrelated article and guilt, for not being more proactive, prompted me to drop you the note. I'll review the current situation to see how things stand at the moment. Thanks for reply and bringing your concerns to my attention. RashersTierney (talk) 15:28, 14 July 2010 (UTC)

Hi, I'm really glad you wrote!

I hope you're doing fine. Right now, I'm not really into the campaign since I just came back from Wikimania two days ago and I need to sort things up with my family (I have a wife and two kids) and work... Where do you think a general message would get the chance to be read, maybe on my Userpage? Before writing a general statement let me tell you that we have more than 301 people who signed the Members and Supporters list, which is a quite good amount of support and it's not finished yet since there are so many Wikipedias and I'm really far from being proficient in many languages and worse alphabets, so I try to navigate the best I can there. Actually there should be more than 350 people because I was a bit careless and didn't pay attention to the template (It took me a while to realize you could sign the list, I thought that you just needed to stick the template and that it would be counted some way, I'm a real technical ignoramus! I just took it as it had been written for the Catalan wikipedia and well the English translation isn't as explicit as the Catalan text...) Some Wikipedias like the Ukrainian and Georgian have manifested an enormous support and I'm really grateful and indebted to these people. I intend to write a message in all of these (gulp!) but well I need some time to readjust. On the other hand we went on a delegation of 8 people from the Catalan territories and tried to make ourselves heard in Gdansk but to no real avail right now though I'm sure some things are changing but there are very obscure things and processes on some levels and I'm really surprised to have witnessed such a lack of transparency... Let me know if you need more information, I'll be glad to talk about it and thanks again for your support and interest. I hope everything goes fine for you and that you're enjoying a great summerseason. Take care, I'm looking forward to hearing from you. Capsot (talk) 12:25, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

I've tried to be clear about everything on my Userpage, feel free to tell me if there's anything wrong about it (spelling, sentences that make no sense, inaccuracies, well actually anything...). Thanks again! Slán agat my friend!... Sorry I hadn't seen the Sarah thing... she had just told me she was planning to travel around... but of course if you come around you can count on me, just let me know I'll be even more than glad to help you since you care so much about our cause and I'm sure there are plenty of things we can talk about (actually I live in a Gipsy neighborhood (Millars/Millas, Northern Catalonia)). Bye again! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Capsot (talk • contribs) 13:39, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

Well, once again I become more and more indebted, Gee I wish I can repay this great help of yours some day! Thanks, the page looks much better now (your reorganizing is real good!), I've added some words and colored your name green, I hope that you like the color (you can change it if it doesn't satisfy you... I've seen some users have the beautiful shamrock on their names but I still don't know how to do it and well I'm not too sure this would please you so...) and that it won't cause you any trouble (if it had to be so, just erase it!). Once again, I shall depart from you my friend but well you know where to reach me and I'll read your prose (or poetry!) with real pleasure, take real care! Your friend Claudi Balaguer/Capsot (talk) 08:23, 16 July 2010 (UTC)

I appreciate the gesture, but you can remove the personal acknowledgment to me if you don't mind. I know its well meant, but there's really no need and its a bit of a distraction from your core message. As was said, 'free knowledge, freely given'. On the question of colours and symbols; like my eponymous 'character', I'm more fascinated/bemused/bewildered by the way people perceive them and react to them. I don't hold the view that any shade or combination of the visible/identity spectrum is intrinsically better than another at all times and under all circumstances. Thats what the little flags episode on my User Page means to me anyway. How others choose to see it may well be informed by their own colour preferences or assumptions regarding mine. Thanks again for your kind words. RashersTierney (talk) 14:53, 16 July 2010 (UTC)

No problem! Done! Looking forward to hearing from you soon, Capsot (talk) 16:30, 16 July 2010 (UTC)

Thanks. Looking forward to better news on your August update :- ) RashersTierney (talk) 16:38, 16 July 2010 (UTC)

Hi, I hope you're doing fine. I wrote a few things about the latest developments on August. Unfortunately I am/will be really busy in September but well as soon as I can I'll try to look for more support in the Wikipedias I haven't visited yet. Take real care! Claudi/Capsot (talk) 11:46, 23 September 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the update. You may also find the possibility of an Ireland chapter of interest. I haven't committed to involvement yet, but no doubt it will be referred to at the Irish meet-up in 2 days time. RashersTierney (talk) 11:56, 23 September 2010 (UTC)

Hello my friend, I hope you are doing fine. I really apologize for the delay. Things have taken a very different pace and direction even though if I am not really enthusiastic about it since I think that we have made too many concessions; anyway only time will tell... Thanks for your information, I had already left a small message to the discussion page, I hope the Irish Chapter will come true some time soon. Take real care, I wish you and your projects all the best, and thanks again for caring! Capsot (talk) 21:21, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

1RR

Reverting edits by IP editors is exempt from 1RR. O Fenian (talk) 10:18, 16 July 2010 (UTC)

I'm no expert on the finer interpretations, just didn't want to see things get out of hand. RashersTierney (talk) 10:21, 16 July 2010 (UTC)

{{Troubles restriction}} gives the details. Things are already out of hand, since the IP editor cannot comprehend that the written transcript of the person taking the phone call is not a correct transcript of what was said, despite repeated attempts to make them see the light. O Fenian (talk) 10:26, 16 July 2010 (UTC)

I understand the not-so-subtle substantive issue, which is why I did what I did. Anyway, 'nuf said. RashersTierney (talk) 10:38, 16 July 2010 (UTC)

Edit warring report filed. No doubt I will be blocked again for trying to discuss the edit and daring to try and uphold policy.. O Fenian (talk) 11:21, 16 July 2010 (UTC)

WP:IMOS

See you changed a correction I made to the edit of another editor who had left something reading wrong. Fine so long as it still reads ok which it does. But, you said it contravened MOS. What's MOS? Comhar (talk) 19:12, 17 July 2010 (UTC)

This must be the edit you are referring to [1]. MOS is just shorthand for manual of style. The main Wikipedia MOS is at WP:MOS. IMOS is a specific guide for Ireland-related articles. The issue I was trying to bring to your attention specifically is this WP:IRE-IRL, which deals with piping to the article named 'Republic of Ireland' while displaying the actual name of the state, ie 'Ireland'. RashersTierney (talk) 19:32, 17 July 2010 (UTC)

Wikimedia Ireland

Hi,

A while back you added your name at Wikimedia Ireland. Well, it took a year (almost to the day) but ten editors have expressed an interest in starting a Wikimedia chapter in Ireland, which meets the criteria for a "critical mass". If you're still interested, I'd would be great if we could kick off discussion. Maybe, a first step might be to introduce ourselves (anonymously) at the chapter talk page with some ideas about what a chapter could do or a sketch of your interest in founding one ... or even just say restate an interest and say 'hello' :-)

You may also be interested in joining the Wikimedia Ireland mailing list, if you are not already on it. --RA (talk) 20:10, 20 July 2010 (UTC)

Gulp! What have I talked myself into this time. Gimme some time to 'gather my thoughts'. Well remembered. Speak soon. RashersTierney (talk) 20:28, 20 July 2010 (UTC)

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