User talk:Horis

A barnstar for you!

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	For Careston Castle and your other castle-related articles - keep it up :). Ironholds (talk) 09:09, 29 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

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	Nice work on those castles! RileyBugz^会話投稿記録 11:07, 15 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Scottish Castles

Welcome from the Scottish Castles Wikiproject, thanks for getting stuck in. I just gave your Luffness Castle a quick copyedit - mainly links etc. If you get time, can you clarify the sentence about Patrick Hepburn? Sir Patrick Hepburn, 1st Lord Hales died in 1483, long before the reformation. Patrick Hepburn, 3rd Earl of Bothwell however, was around at this date. Anyway, hope you can sort this out, and I hope you can continue to contribute to the project. Thanks, ::Supergolden:: 12:05, 28 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Scottish Castles

As a participant in Wikipedia:WikiProject Scottish Castles, I'd just like to draw your attention to a proposal, I have put forward on the talk page regarding infoboxes. Your input would be most welcome. Thanks, Edward Waverley 12:38, 17 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Help

Hello Horis, good to hear from you. Its not too complex: "invalid names, e.g. too many" means that there are too many separate words in the <ref> tag. To illustrate, look at the references which are working on your Couston Castle page:

<ref name=Lindsay>
<ref name=Scotgaz>

And the one that isn't:

<ref name=Historic Scotland>

The difference is, the "name" in the Historic Scotland one is two words, so it breaks. To fix, simply use <ref name=HistoricScotland>etcetc</ref>, without a space. Does that make sense? Then at the end, just type </references> or {{reflist}} to make the references show up.

The error messages link through to Help:Cite errors which explains more. Fascinating to know that William the Lion had a son called "de London" - perhaps his English captivity was not too onerous!

Any further issues I'll be happy to help. Regards, Jonathan Oldenbuck (talk) 20:50, 22 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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You may be interested in one of the following templates:

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• {{user septuagenarian}}

Yours aye, Buaidh (talk) 06:20, 24 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Barnbougle Castle

I was just reading the above article, mostly written by you, and thought it very well written and informative. It was a pleasure to see.  Giacomo  23:34, 30 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Thanks for all your work on George Mackay Brown. Span (talk) 09:53, 27 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

This user is interested in Scotland.

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Wikipedian in Residence at the National Library of Scotland

I'm just dropping you a quick note about a new Wikipedian in Residence job that's opened up at the National Library of Scotland. There're more details at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Scotland#Wikimedian in Residence at the National Library of Scotland. Richard Symonds (WMUK) (talk) 15:30, 22 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Affleck Castle

When you follow the link to Affleck Castle, you will end up on the Monikie page, but underneath the page title you will see in small text "(Redirected from Affleck Castle)". If you click on the link there, you won't get redirected (or, just click here: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Affleck_Castle&redirect=no). Then, just edit the page as normal, replacing the content "#REDIRECT [[Monikie]]" with your article text. Hope that helps. Regards, Jonathan Oldenbuck (talk) 19:39, 3 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

DYK

Hi, would you mind if I nominated Kinnairdy Castle for Did You Know, or were you going to do it (or do you not want me to)? Thanks, Matty.007 12:06, 2 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I nominated it here. I hope you like the hook and picture, feel free to suggest alternatives. Thanks, Matty.007 12:48, 2 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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DYK for Kinnairdy Castle

On 6 August 2013, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Kinnairdy Castle, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Kinnairdy Castle was once owned by a man accused of witchcraft? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Kinnairdy Castle. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

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Well done for a good article, should get quite a few views. Thanks, Matty.007 16:20, 6 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Nice work...

...on the various Scottish castle articles! Hchc2009 (talk) 19:45, 16 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

DYK

Hi Horis, I am going to nominate Barra Castle for WP:DYK, which would hopefully result in its appearing on the main page. If there are any problems with this, please say. Thanks, Matty.007 21:28, 14 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

A very good quality article. Nominated here. Thanks, Matty.007 16:29, 15 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Barra Castle

On 19 February 2014, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Barra Castle, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Barra Castle was the seat of Kings? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Barra Castle. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

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Hi, thanks for your work! I was wondering if you'd be interested in joining the challenge. Scotland is badly underrepresented!♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:22, 26 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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@Blythwood: Many thanks. I'll get this formatting business sorted out one day!Horis (talk) 09:44, 1 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi Horis, nice work on this new article. My only slight concern is that some of your text is fairly similar to the content of your sources - some close paraphrasing, some phrases actually more or less identical. I'll try to fix that later this evening, unless you want to do some work on it first. I'll also see whether I can add a couple of sources and a bit more content - if it's a scheduled monument, the Historic Environment Scotland Portal ought to have an entry for it, and I'll take a look in the Pevsner for Moray to see if it's mentioned.

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{{Re|Doomsdayer520}}Thanks. There is a link from List of castles in Aberdeenshire which would be a first stop for Aberdeenshire Castles. There is also a redirection from Castle of Park.Horis (talk) 11:27, 25 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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