User talk:Bastun/2011

3RR

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Éamon de Valera. Users who edit disruptively or refuse to collaborate with others may be blocked if they continue. In particular the three-revert rule states that making more than three reversions on a single page within a 24-hour period is almost always grounds for an immediate block. If you find yourself in an editing dispute, use the talk page to discuss controversial changes. Work towards wording and content that gains consensus among editors. If unsuccessful, then do not edit war even if you believe you are right. Post a request for help at an appropriate noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases it may be appropriate to request temporary page protection. If edit warring continues, you may be blocked from editing without further notice.

Should you really be leaving pointy template warnings on experienced users' talk pages, given your own history at the article in question? --Ħ MIESIANIACAL 16:36, 5 January 2011 (UTC)

Sarah777 & Irish counties.

I left a note on that user's talk page. Laurel Lodged (talk) 12:22, 3 April 2011 (UTC)

Gora mah ogiv!

Just replying here so not to clutter the ANI board, as I cant refute what youre saying. Our response to the famine is one of the darkest stains on our history IMO, but I agree she was moving it away from NPOV. With a good mentor that kind of editing would be avoided. I've seen mentorship work really well in the past. I should have wrote a substantial minority seem to lean towards Sarah's POV. Was just going on my own OR based on what Ive heard said by expats and on my trips to your fair country. I have a special admiration for Ireland but have always been too afraid to ask the few objective Irish analysts I know what their fellow countrymen think of us. I knew most are either ambivalent or dont really care but thought feelings were a bit stronger than you suggest. So really appreciate your comment. FeydHuxtable (talk) 17:42, 12 May 2011 (UTC)

You're welcome. We'll have to agree to disagree on the mentoring. I've only seen it used a couple of times before, I think, and neither to great effect. Once already, in fact, was for Sarah777, back in 2008, again at SirFozzie's suggestion. That's obviously had no effect. The other was in the case of User:Vintagekits, who got mentorships, final warnings, final final warnings, and really final final warnings before he was indefinitely banned. Sarah's a good and productive editor on non-contentious issues, but when it comes to Britain and British-related issues, it's just a blind spot for her. She knows she shouldn't have written what she did by WP's rules, yet she went ahead and did it anyway. A mentor telling her not to write something, not to get involved in a dispute, or to strike something she's already written - well, in my opinion it's a waste of time. I think the best solution is a topic ban from contentious Irish-British issues, broadly construed, and escalating blocks.

As to what the Irish think of the English/British? Well, obviously, there's a broad spectrum, with probably the vast majority holding an attitude of benevolent indifference, if that makes sense. In my own case, for example, I know the Queen is coming over here next week, but I honestly couldn't tell you what days. I'd vaguely consider going to see Obama when he's over, but I wouldn't be in the slightest bit bothered going out of my way to see Lizzie. Éirígí have put stickers up in the city centre saying "No Queen in the city of '16" - and others have torn them or obscured them with markers. It's like I mentioned at AN/I - for a country we're supposed to hate for oppressing us up to 1922 and who still have the "occupied Six" (as Sarah put it recently, despite the Good Friday Agreement and the referenda passed on both sides of the border) - we support an awful lot of their football teams, buy a huge amount of their newspapers, and watch all their soaps (which are carried on RTÉ and TV3)... The highest number of foreign nationals living here are British. I work with some of them. And we'll slag them mercilessly when we beat them in rugby (or cricket!), even with the odd "800 years!" thrown in - and it's taken in the humuorous spirit it's meant. So yes, there are a minority who are virulently anti-British, but I really do think it's a tiny minority. (I'll still make a point of wearing something identifiably Irish when I'm on holiday on the continent, though, 'cos I know I'll get better service in bars and restaurants than if they assume I'm English :P ) Bastun^{Ėġáḍβáś₮ŭŃ!} 23:05, 12 May 2011 (UTC)

Makes perfect sense, thanks for the great assessment. You'd be welcome to mssg me if ever you think I could help with anything. FeydHuxtable (talk) 15:43, 13 May 2011 (UTC)

Hi!

Just spotted this. Many thanks for your support during my recent travails. Sarah777 (talk) 22:14, 13 June 2011 (UTC)

Religious categories

Hi, I apologize for the mishaps with the Irish Roman Catholics category, that was careless of me. As for the rest, if I made errors with some of the categories and they should be corrected, that's fine, but for most I feel they are in accordance with Wikipedia guidelines. They are self-identified and/or well-known to be associated with the group in question, and it is relevant to their public life and/or notability, particularly with politicians. Thanks.Packerfansam (talk) 20:28, 2 September 2011 (UTC)

That's not the case - Packerfansam had made a large number of other pointless edits attaching a Category:whatever religion crops up in an infobox. Bulgarian politicians, Irish revolutionaries, UK actors, Monegasque Princesses, Polish popes (I joke) - just about anyone that has an infobox religion field gets tagged with an inappropriate cat. BTW- thanks to Batsun for rollbacking so many of these Catspam edits. FanN | talk 15:28, 3 September 2011 (UTC)

Poll on ArbCom resolution - Ireland article names

There is a poll taking place here on whether or not to extend the ArbCom binding resolution, which says there may be no page move discussions for Ireland,Republic of Ireland or Ireland (disambiguation), for a further two years. Fmph (talk) 21:29, 22 September 2011 (UTC)

Update

The editor-in-question, that I called British, has since had his block extended for block-evasion. GoodDay (talk) 02:56, 29 October 2011 (UTC)

Proposal

No, I don't want to marry you. I just think you should make that into a formal proposal, with support, oppose and comment sections. But I think we shd do the grunt work before christmas and open the poll after. Fmph (talk) 14:19, 4 November 2011 (UTC)

Categorization

Then perhaps you'd like to suggest a criteria for categorization? HaHagana1948 (talk) 14:18, 27 November 2011 (UTC)

Sorry, I don't follow you. The pages you added to the category were already in a sub-category of the main one. Pages shouldn't be in both a sub-cat and the main category at the same time. Bastun^{Ėġáḍβáś₮ŭŃ!} 15:00, 27 November 2011 (UTC)