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Articles for deletion nomination of Gillabhrenainn Ua hAnradhainI have nominated Gillabhrenainn Ua hAnradhain, and several other articles that you created, for deletion. I do not think that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gillabhrenainn Ua hAnradhain. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time. Please contact me if you're unsure why you received this message. Lampman (talk) 16:13, 28 September 2009 (UTC) Bishops and Abbots of ClonfertHi. I'm sorry, but had to revert your edits on the Bishop of Clonfert article. There weren't any diocesan bishops of Clonfert until the 12th century. Prior to then, the abbots of Clonfert had jurisdiction over his community. (Terroritorial dioceses were only established at the synods of Rathbreasail and Kells along with the diocesan bishops). Some of the abbots were consecrated as bishops, but gives the misconception that they were the bishop of a place or diocese. They were simply abbots who had been consecrated. In fact a few at Clonfert weren't even abbots. I noticed you are having problem with the various abbot of Clonfert articles. I've created the Abbot of Clonfert article, which lists the abbots from the 6th to the 12th century. It's a basic list at the moment, but could be altered to table of abbots; similar to the table of bishop articles. I hope the list will be of use. - Scrivener-uki (talk) 06:11, 30 September 2009 (UTC) Linking datesHello again. Just to let you know, it's not necessary to link to dates or years anymore. see MOS:SYL. - Scrivener-uki (talk) 06:48, 30 September 2009 (UTC) Ó and OHey Fergananim, i am not sure what you mean. Do you want the articles that include Ó in their name moved to new articles with the Ó changed to O? Omegastar (talk) 19:30, 3 October 2009 (UTC)
Kathleen Hughes (historian), category for an English scholar of Irish historyI'm a bit uncertain about how this article (created by you well over a year ago) should be categorized. Hughes was English, born in Middlesborough, and thus not member of category:Irish historians (as this is a category in Historians by nationality). Nonetheless, her field was the medieval Irish Church, so she was indeed a scholar working with Irish history. Category:Celticists covers some I guess, but what I'm looking for is a category for non-Irish citizens working mainly with Irish history. Any suggestions? Best regards, Finn Rindahl (talk) 11:19, 21 October 2009 (UTC) Townlands and baronies?Hope you're feeling OK and life is treating you tolerably well. Before spending all my pennies on a house, maybe next week, I bought myself some nice Irish books as a (mumble-mumble)th birthday present: Bhreathnach's Kingship and Landscape of Tara and Medieval Ireland: Territorial, Political and Economic Divisions by one Paul MacCotter. The Bhreathnach book is excellent and when I get time I'll be able to polish up a whole heap of articles using it. Same with the MacCotter one, but I'm having a bit of trouble there with my ignorance of Irish geography. Not for the first time, but maybe now's the time to do something about it. Do you know of anything out there on the internet that lists all of the townlands and baronies in Ireland, or maybe there's even a map of them somewhere in an old book or even a new one? I hope this will be ní ansae :-) All the best, Angus McLellan (Talk) 22:43, 22 October 2009 (UTC) Your articles; MacCotter; Bhreathnach; KelleherHi there. I've learned a great deal of value from your articles, and did not know of the existence of MacCotter's Medieval Ireland before your use of him. My copy just came today. It is a fascinating work if missing maps. Do you have other recommendations? I see you mentioned to Angus McClellan that you own Bhreathnach 2005, which I haven't looked at, although judging from the titles in it I suspect the Laigin and Ulaid still come across as irrelevant from Conn of the Hundred Battles onwards (an impossibility, but currently popular it seems). As far as I can tell it is currently considered un-Irish to contest the position or existence of the Uí Néill-Connachta before the 7th century, but who knows. Have you read Kelleher's famous paper Early Irish History and Pseudo-History? DinDraithou (talk) 23:02, 30 October 2009 (UTC)
The article Marie Breathnach (actress) has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
While all contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons. You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing People from County GalwayHi there. As Category:People from Ballinasloe it is a subcategory of Category:People from County Galway, there is not need to add the latter to pages containing the former. Would you mind reverting your recent edits?--Damac (talk) 08:38, 2 December 2009 (UTC) Succession boxesHi Fergananim Well done adding succession boxes to Fintan Coogan, Jnr. I just did a small tweak after your edit, and thought it might help to explain what I did. First, succession boxes should be below all sections (see WP:FOOTERS), so I moved them down there. And the other thing was to join up the two boxes: the {{start box}} and {{end box}} only need to be used at the top and bottom of the group of boxes, not around each individual box. Hope this helps! --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 21:00, 3 December 2009 (UTC)
Hey, sounds kinda cool, rather like The Bourne Ultimatium - "Coogan's back. And this time - its political". Anyway, thanks for that. I am going to add more info to each bio but I just wanted to get the dammed things up for once and for all. Hope all is well with you - what's Santa bringing ya? Fergananim (talk) 21:03, 3 December 2009 (UTC)
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I think his article is fairly high priority for Connacht, now the least well covered of the provinces (Munster used to be until I showed up). It was looking like you were going to put something in his article and since you're the expert on Connacht I didn't want to get in the way and make errors. Maybe I confused you by adding to the refs, but I don't have enough background in the province to be very helpful. DinDraithou (talk) 05:56, 9 December 2009 (UTC)
Linking of datesHi, for your information dates and years in articles are only linked when necessray for the article's comprehension (see also MOS:UNLINKYEARS and Wikipedia:Linking#Chronological_items) Best wishes ~~ Phoe talk ~~ 18:57, 10 December 2009 (UTC) Succession boxes - WP:FootersHi, a friendly reminder, succession boxes go after See also, References, Sources, External Links sections but before the categories. This edit [2] has been corrected. Please read WP:Footers for further detail. Tx, Snappy (talk) 20:07, 10 December 2009 (UTC)
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Fergananim (talk) 14:18, 16 December 2009 (UTC) Manual of style and other issuesHi Ferganim Please could you consider slowing down on your creation of new articles, and making a little more effort to try to follow the Manual of Style. Every time I look at your contributions list, I see a series of problem which editors have discussed with you before, such as:
Best wishes, --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 14:06, 21 December 2009 (UTC)
Proposed deletionsI have just proposed deleting the following articles created by you, which all appear to be about persons who do not meet the notability tests set out in WP:BIO
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Thomas Murphy (Tuam)I have redirected Thomas Murphy (Tuam) to the existing Tom Murphy (playwright). Please check whether an article already exists before creating a new one. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 16:43, 21 December 2009 (UTC) M. E. MitchellYou wrote that M. E. Mitchell was born in 1834, and got his degree in 1956. Those cannot both be true. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 17:00, 21 December 2009 (UTC) Date linkingHi, just to make you aware, that dates are no longer linked on Wikipedia (though previously they were). Current policy is stated at WP:UNLINKDATES. Tx, Snappy (talk) 18:36, 21 December 2009 (UTC)
AfD nomination of Billy Cameron (Galway)An article that you have been involved in editing, Billy Cameron (Galway), has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Billy Cameron (Galway). Thank you. Please contact me if you're unsure why you received this message. Hi Fergananim, I was so pleased to find your page on Michael P. O'Connor as I had been meaning to do one on him for a while but never quite got round to it. I've added some information and citations. My interest in him stems from the camp in which he was interned in Borneo, and I have enjoyed reading those of his books that I have been able to get hold of. He is an intriguing character and I only wish I could find out more about him. Cheers, Jasper33 (talk) 12:10, 30 December 2009 (UTC)
Agus shona an bliana nua to you too! The poem is in the frontipsiece of Dreamer Awake, his first novel, which goes on to mention the cathedral town of Kilnadore by a lake with a Stony Island, and the Slievemeen Mountains and Rowheen Woods nearby - I wonder if Kilnadore is a fictionalised version of Loughrea? The novel is biographical to some extent I'm sure as the protagonist grows up in a cathedral town in Ireland, goes to university in Dublin and then goes on to work in Malaya. Taking of which - I'm excited to hear you might have info on Irish POWs in the camp. Ooh! As for me, my maternal grandparents were in the camp and wanting to find out more about what they went through has become something of an obsession. I started with the Wikipedia page but it has grown like Topsy - I have been interviewing surviving POWs and internees (sadly, understandably thin on the ground) and their families and gathering as much information as I can. At the end of it all (finances willing) - a book or a PhD, who knows? It's certainly an itch I've got to scratch! Cheers Rebecca Jasper33 (talk) 11:58, 1 January 2010 (UTC)
Please use edit summariesHi there. When editing an article on Wikipedia there is a small field labeled "Edit summary" under the main edit-box. It looks like this: The text written here will appear on the Recent changes page, in the page revision history, on the diff page, and in the watchlists of users who are watching that article. See m:Help:Edit summary for full information on this feature. Filling in the edit summary field greatly helps your fellow contributors in understanding what you changed, so please always fill in the edit summary field. If you are adding a section, please do not just keep the previous section's header in the Edit summary field – please fill in your new section's name instead. Thank you. . --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 03:57, 10 January 2010 (UTC) O'Connor againThank-you for that, Fergananim, and how interesting - that's definitely our man. I hadn't realised he was reading stories into the sixties. I shall do a bit more googling with the info you've kindly provided and see what comes up, if anything. I'm not keen on giving out my email address because of spamming: the 'email this user' link is in the 'toolbox' on the left hand side of the page, under the 'search' and 'interaction' boxes. I would have emailed you but you don't seem to have your email enabled as there is no link in your toolbox. I don't suppose - here's a big ask - you could email me a scan of the page of the book? Don't worry about saying no if it's too much hassle. I'm just curious to see what he looks like! Rebecca Jasper33 (talk) 10:36, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
I asked on the help page and you can't see my email as you have to have your email enabled too to be able to see mine. If you want to enable it, go to 'my preferences' in the list of actions at the top right of your page, and at the bottom of the 'my preferences' page is a section for your email options. Rebecca Jasper33 (talk) 10:53, 11 January 2010 (UTC) The article Thomas Woods (Galway) has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
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