CorbieVreccan

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1. July 2005 - July 2006
2. The Halloween Debacle of 2006
3. If You Are Here to Talk About Jim Morrison
4. Other things that happened July - October 2006
5. November 1 - 20, 2006
6. CVU, RC Patrol, VP, and other Vandalism-related discussions from late 2006
7. Stalk Talk - Starwood and Trolls - The Attack of the Sock-Headed Hydra
8. Other things that happened November 22, 2006 - January 3, 2007
9. January 3 - February 15, 2007
10. February 15 - March 15, 2007

Requests for adminship and bureaucratship update RfA candidate S O N S % Status Ending (UTC) Time left Dups? Report Graham87 55 10 3 85 Open 10:11, 24 November 2024 6 days, 15 hours no report Worm That Turned 271 5 9 98 Open 09:47, 18 November 2024 14 hours no report

My Proposal.

I'm dropping my proposal; Sarah raised some points that I hadn't actually thought of. I want to thank you for participating in the discussion, and for your edits to the proposal itself. Acalamari 03:53, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

Here is my new proposal: User:Acalamari/IWN. As you were interested in my last one, I thought you'd might like to know about this one. Acalamari 20:33, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

I'm sorry it didn't work out. *sigh* - Kathryn NicDhàna ♫♦♫ 05:17, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

Yes you get yet another award

I almost posted this to your user page, but just as I was clicking, saw the caveat, so here you go, I would be honored if you would display this on your user page with the rest.... (just throw it on the pile of other ones, lol)

The Wikihalo Award

The Wikihalo Award I was going to give you a quick thank-you for your contribution to Reichstag Climbing, but then got sucked in to reading your other edits, so I hereby award you The Wikihalo award for your overall coolness and humor! Thank you for being YOU! - Sue Rangell 03:38, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

This award was introduced by The Neokidon 21 January 2006.

I thought about reverting this as vandalism, just because :-D

Thank you. For the illegal award and all you've done to make me laugh today. I am honoured. - Kathryn NicDhàna ♫♦♫ 05:17, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

You have inspired me to create this. The illegal version of the WikiHalo:

Image	What to type	Description
	{{subst:The Outlaw Halo|message ~~~~}}	The Outlaw Halo Award The Outlaw Halo Award is given for whatever reason you may have, to whomever you feel like. This award may also be given to those who Ignore All Rules in an audacious way that protects the 'pedia. It was introduced by Kathryn NicDhàna, illegally, on March 15 2007, after Sue Rangell Climbed the Reichstag to present her with a Wikihalo award, illegally, without even asking anyone to vote on it.

• Absolutely fantastic! w00t! - Alison^☺ 06:44, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
  • cackle cackle. - kpn

St Patrick's Day

Thanks for your sensible comments on St Patrick's Day. More and more of us are getting worried about the alcohol-fuelled debauchery that's going on. While our political leaders fly to all corners of the globe, I'll be staying here, going to church (CofI, as it happens), and enjoying a Guinness at lunch. After that I'll probably wander into town to see the Parade. Let's hope we have a better day than last year!

All good wishes. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Bill Tegner (talk • contribs) 09:10, 15 March 2007 (UTC).

Thanks for your kind comments, Bill. Yes, I usually stay home on St. Patrick's to avoid the drunken louts. For the first time in years I'm considering going out this year, only because there's going to be some good music on (depending if we can get tickets, after procrastinating). Slán, - Kathryn NicDhàna ♫♦♫ 22:10, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, Kathryn, I'll raise my glass to you and Alison tomorrow. We're spoilt for choice in the afternoon: the races, or the parade, or planting first early potatoes. Actually I'm getting a bit of stick from an American called "IrishGuy". Possibly my abrasive style hasn't helped, but I think we've patched it up now. Bill Tegner 08:25, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Talking to myself

I must be in an unusually good mood tonight. I just left a welcome message for a poop vandal. Should I be applauded, or pitied? - Kathryn NicDhàna ♫♦♫ 05:26, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Help! I'm conflicted :) - Alison^☺ 05:31, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

I suppose I could be applauded with pity, or patted on the head and told I'm pitiful. Actually, I thought of you, being kind to the troll :-) That's it, it's your fault! - Kathryn NicDhàna ♫♦♫ 05:41, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

I'm sorry, I'm too busy pitying myself for going through new pages and slapping speedy deletes on many of them. So applause is in order from me. Can you hear it? --Pig^man_dialogue 05:57, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

"Hip, hip, rah, rah, rah, tiger, tiger, tiger, siss, siss, siss, boom, boom, boom, bah" - to both of you! - Alison^☺ 06:03, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Oh, you are so overworked, Piggie, it's so sad and pitiful. I'll really pity you when you stay up three hours past your bedtime just so you can handhold yet another vandal through through his grief over having his autobio deleted. Oh, thought I didn't know about that, did you? - Kathryn NicDhàna ♫♦♫ 06:07, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Oh, Ali, that's just the cheering up I need. It reminds me of an MC5 song. And one of the cheers in the article is from a college not too far away. --Pig^man_dialogue 06:14, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

And thanks for cheering me up! Nothing says 1960s quite like this. Oh the horror!! - Alison^☺ 06:18, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Yah, yah - blame me, whydontcha. *sob* ;) - Alison^☺ 05:59, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Yes, I blame you for corrupting us all into being nicer. It's terrible. I haven't yelled at anyone today. Yet. :-) - Kathryn NicDhàna ♫♦♫ 06:07, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Oh hey, it's early days yet. I'm such the sweety little angel, aren't I? (* evil grin *) - Alison^☺ 06:11, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Oh and by the way - thank you for your kind comments over you-know-where. I've kinda kept away from there for the moment as I'm still processing that. But thank you for what you said. I really appreciate it. - Alison^☺ 06:13, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Hurrah!

I like :-) As they say in uk.rec.sheds: H!TFD! Guy (Help!) 22:02, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Wheeeeee! Hands in the air! Whoops! :-) - Kathryn NicDhàna ♫♦♫ 23:15, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

LOL

No problem :-). I think I pinched the idea from Essjay's userpage actually... Though his had links to more important things. WjBscribe 23:26, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

I look forward to customizing it further. *rubs hands together conspiratorially* - Kathryn NicDhàna ♫♦♫ 23:15, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

WP:UW future?

Hi Kathryn,

Sorry for the blatant spam, but you have yourself down as interested at WikiProject user warnings WP:UW. There is a discussion on going here that might be of interest to you about the future of this project. There are two strawpolls on the talk pages and the second one is about the future of the WP:UW project. Now we have the end in sight we are looking at wrapping up the project and merging it with Template messages/User talk namespace WP:UTM and creating a one stop shop for all userspace template issue. As you have yourself down as interested in this project we thought you may have some input on this issue, and would like you to visit the discussion and give any thoughts you may have on the matter. Cheers ^Khukri 10:24, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

I'll check it out, thanks Khukri! - Kathryn NicDhàna ♫♦♫ 23:15, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

My Talk Page

Hi there. Just to let you know, 58.10.167.213 slightly vandalized my talk page. He wrote "anyone who consideres Reagan to be a hero should be shot and pissed on." I know it's small, but does that count for anything, and can I report him? Happyme22 23:23, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

Yes, that definitely violates WP:CIVIL. - Kathryn NicDhàna ♫♦♫ 00:01, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Blocked. 48 hrs. If he causes problems when he returns, let me know. - Kathryn NicDhàna ♫♦♫ 00:25, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Starwood

The above-named arbitration case has closed and the decision may be found at the link above. Rosencomet is cautioned to avoid aggressive editing of articles when there is a question of conflict of interest. If edit warring or other conflict arises, it may be best to limit editing to talk pages. This notice is given by a clerk on behalf of the Arbitration Committee. Newyorkbrad 17:02, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

Deletes

hi Kathryn,

i just noticed that twice: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Samhain&diff=86782886&oldid=86663344 http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wheel_of_the_Year&diff=93445294&oldid=92695591 you've removed external links to essays written by Mike Nichols.

your first deletion was accompanied by this explanation: "While containing some interesting folklore, link also has inaccuracies, esp. concerning Gaelic culture and tradition."

what are the inaccuracies?

your second deletion was accompanied by this explanation: "prob. copyvio (wheel graphic on geocities site)"

so are you suggesting that the graphic on Mike's site is a copyright violation? do you have proof? and if it is, does linking to his site violate any wikipedia policies?

peace, -- Besonen 23:58, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

Hi Besonen, The diffs you [initially] provided go to the same edit, so I can only respond to that one. The Mike Nichols site has a lot of ads, and seems to mostly focus on promoting his book, which is frowned upon in the WP:EL external link guidelines. IIRC, I think that graphic is from the Erica Jong book, Witches. I don't have the book at hand, so I can't be sure, but I know I've seen it published elsewhere before. Unless he got permission, yes, that would make use of the graphic on his website a copyright violation. - Kathryn NicDhàna ♫♦♫ 21:37, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

I see you've changed one of the diffs in your message above.[1]In the future, if you could use edit summaries, and note any changes to your post in the discussion, it will help readers keep track of changes :-) As to Nichols's Samhain article, I'd say it has a mixture of good, verifiable info (for those who already know what sources to check) along with some speculations and a few inaccuracies. The problem is that, without any citations, the reader doesn't know which content in his essays can be sourced and which are his personal interpretations. Given that, even if there weren't the possible copyvio on the main page of his site and advertising concerns, I don't think the articles I looked at are appropriate for an encyclopedic reference. Slàn, - Kathryn NicDhàna ♫♦♫ 23:54, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Copyedit request

Hello, CorbieVreccan. I saw you enlisted at the WP:LoCE therefore I wanted to ask if you wouldn't mind to take a look at 2012 Summer Olympics bids (52 kb). Since it is on FAC, it had two complete sweeps by a reviewer, but another one still thinks the prose is not professional enough to support it. I've put a request on the WP:LoCE but I sense it will take a long time before it gets a writing-style review.

I'm asking other WPs to help but I would really appreciate your contribution, but it's OK if for some reason you can't. Cheers! Parutakupiu ^{talk || contribs} 04:33, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

Hey there

Hi Kathryn. We miss you!! Come back soon ... - Alison ☺ 17:07, 3 May 2007 (UTC) (thinking of you)

Seconded :-). WjBscribe 17:21, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

• preen preen* I'm poking around now and then, but life is way busy right now. Thanks for holding down the fort! - Kathryn NicDhàna ♫♦♫ 20:53, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

• Oh yayy!!! Welcome back :) - Alison ☺ 21:05, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

User:AlexNewArtBot

Hi CorbieVreccan, as a WikiProject Scotland participant, please check out this this thread and consider adding the bot results page to your watchlist so we can manually update the New Articles page. There are some false results for the first batch, but I'm sure we can collectively tune the rules to improve the output.

If we get enough people watching the results page, we'll be cooking with gas as they say :)   This looks like a great helper in finding new Scotland related material. Cheers. --Cactus.man ✍ 01:14, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

FYI

It seems you reverted some edits on fulcanelli as vandalism, [2], which is now being questioned by the person who made those edits at Wikipedia:Help_desk#Fulcanelli ssepp^(talk) 15:23, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads-up, ssepp. The Fulcanelli IP edits were made in the midst of a spamming spree,[3] for which I warned him on the talk page of the IP he used to make the edits.[4] - Kathryn NicDhàna ♫♦♫ 18:23, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

Regarding my edit to WP:UAA (thanks for asking)

I did not intend to mislead you; it was a misunderstanding. The WP:UAA system is new, so confusion will last a while until everyone figures out how it really works in practice. My comment was to clarify the basis for blocking or not blocking the user, rather than to issue a final ruling. Perhaps I should have made my intention clear by introducing the word "Comment" as is common in other discussions.

As I understand it, the reason UAA replaced WP:RFCN is that the discussions were becoming excessive, and deciding that a username violates policy is a simple matter in most cases. (If you read the relevant MFD discussions, it's more complicated.) Although I'm not an admin, I find the issue curious, and I happened to stop by when your case was active. I think it's helpful to provide administrators with additional information they might need, since you didn't clarify what about the username was offensive. In the future, if you see an unclear post on a noticeboard, you are free to clarify its intent - and again, I should have used the word "comment" in order not to confuse you. The word "administrators" in the page title is not meant to scare you away. :)

Best regards. YechielMan 02:56, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

Note: I just saw now that you would have preferred a response on my talk page. Ah well. If you want to continue the discussion, please copy my comment to my talk page and add yours. YechielMan 02:58, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

I'll reply on your talk page. - Kathryn NicDhàna ♫♦♫ 03:16, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

Hi

Please delete my username since it's against policy. Thankyou. Heywood Jablomie 12:38, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

YechielMan's RFA

Thank you for participating in either of my unsuccessful requests for adminship. Although the experience was frustrating, it showed me some mistakes I was making, and I hope to learn from those mistakes.

Please take a few minutes to read User:YechielMan/Other stuff/RFA review and advise me how to proceed. Please reply there, not here. Best regards. YechielMan 21:33, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Hello

Hello Kathryn, thanks for the cleanup at the Celtic mythology topics template. I woud appreciate if you could help adding these templates to all these pages to aid readers with navigating all these articles.

{{Celtic mythology topics|state=uncollapsed}}

{{Celts|state=collapsed}}

≈ jossi ≈ (talk) 04:31, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

Hey Jossi, good to hear from you!

Been meaning to give you a shout for all the hard work you're doing with the template. I'll see if I can do some more on the project a bit later today or tonight. Tapadh Leibh, - Kathryn NicDhàna ♫♦♫ 19:06, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

Tapadh Leibh ... do not know what that means.... :) I speak only Spanish, English, Hebrew and some Italian and French ≈ jossi ≈ (talk) 21:28, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

It's Scottish Gaelic for "Thank You" :-) - Kathryn NicDhàna ♫♦♫ 21:34, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

Would love to know how to pronounce it.... ≈ jossi ≈ (talk) 21:37, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

I suck at IPA, but roughly: "TOP-uh Layv" or "TOP-uh Leave", depending on dialect. That's the formal/respectful or plural form, btw (like vous en francais). The informal is Tapadh Leat ("TOP-uh Let" or "TOP-uh Laht", depending on dialect). I suppose by the time we finish working on this template we'll be at the informal level. ;-) - Kathryn NicDhàna ♫♦♫ 21:58, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

LGBT WikiProject Newsletter

Delivered on 16:00, 6 June 2007 (UTC). SatyrBot 16:17, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Murloc

An editor has nominated Murloc, an article on which you have worked or that you created, for deletion. We appreciate your contributions, but the nominator doesn't believe that the article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion and has explained why in his/her nomination (see also "What Wikipedia is not"). Your opinions on whether the article meets inclusion criteria and what should be done with the article are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Murloc and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You may also edit the article during the discussion to improve it but should not remove the articles for deletion template from the top of the article; such removal will not end the deletion debate. Thank you. - Tiswas^(t) 13:57, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the note, Tiswas. However, I didn't contribute to the article. I only reverted some vandalism. Slàn, - Kathryn NicDhàna ♫♦♫ 23:14, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

Karmichael Hunt

Could you copyedit Karmichael Hunt. It would be much appreciated.

SpecialWindler 21:53, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

Hi there

... I so owe you an email!!! I've not forgotten, but have been away from here lately. I'll get to it ... - Alison ☺ 00:58, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

Good to hear from you! No prob, I've been crazy busy, too. Just glad to know you got it, and I'll be happy to hear your feedback when you have time. Slán, - Kathryn NicDhàna ♫♦♫ 01:46, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

Your Bio

Just to let you know that the links at the bottom of your bio are broken for me: error message = there is a problem with this page's security certificiate.

Hope thats useful to you. Fixing the links would be useful to e since I was quite intereted in reading the pages, as opposed to merely looking for further insight into your own background. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.159.73.56 (talk • contribs)

What bio page? Which links? I'm not sure what you're referring to here. - Kathryn NicDhàna ♫♦♫ 19:56, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

RE: Edit of page Druid

Hrm, I dont actually remember exactly what I wrote, though it is entirely possible that my addition was from a personal perspective possibly made clearly so by acknowledgement of that or possibly allowed to stand as being self evidently so.

In either case, I apologise if my addition broke the rules, though I would also like to suggest that might be helpful to people such as myself who are unfamiliar with the Wiki guidelines if you pasted the content that you edit in your advisory notes about its suitability.

WRT to the same page, you might like to note that the following paragraph is not substanstiable in the context of the page:

"Nevertheless, much traditional rural religious practice can still be discerned from Christian interpretations and survives in practices like Halloween observances, corn dollies and other harvest rituals, the myths of Puck, woodwoses, "lucky" and "unlucky" plants and animals and the like. Orally-transmitted material may have exaggerated deep origins in antiquity, however, and is constantly subject to influence from surrounding culture."

Practices of this type, as can be easily discovered from reading The Golden Bough by J.G Fraser, predominate globally and thus cannot be construed to be directly relevant to the practice of Druidry. Even though practices of this type may have been incorporated into the druidic tradition, the only easily available (indirect) evidence of this is in the description that Bloedduewedd was a wife made of flowers.

It also seems unreasonable to rely on Roman observations on the nature of Druidry without accompanying such observations with a footnote to indicate that Roman descriptions clearly come relatively late in the existence of the practice. Note that this is an observation on what seems to be relevant to appreciating the value of Roman description in context rather than a criticism of the content of the page with respect to its accuracy in the context of Roman made observations.

WRT to consistent allegation that druidry had as its basis the rote memorisation of triadic guidelines, it is also often overlooked that the evidence for this is derived from a period much later even than Roman made observation.

I would have annotated the page with these comments, however, I did not wish to risk breaking the wiki guidelines again and so have left it to your discretion as to whether or not they should be included. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.159.73.56 (talk • contribs)

You can refresh your memory as to what you wrote by looking at the history of the article (click "history" tab in top nav. bar) or, even easier, clicking "my contributions" at the top of the page, assuming you have a static IP. (It would be easier to track your contribs. if you registered an account, btw.) The reverted edits can be viewed here. They were reverted because they appeared to be unsourced commentary; even if it were sourced, it appears much of what you wrote was about the beliefs and traditions of some Neo-druidic traditions, whereas the Druid article is about historical druids. If you wish to discuss changes to the article, it's usually best to do so on the discussion page of the article itself, that way all the contributing editors can participate. Slàn, - Kathryn NicDhàna ♫♦♫ 19:56, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

graphic help

Kathryn, you did such a great job on the original LoCE barnstar, I was wondering if you would mind also creating a ribbon for it? I gave it a shot today and was met with catastrophic failure. (I'm about the most graphic arts-challanged person on the face of the Earth.)

I figured it's a job best left in the hands of people who have a clue what they are doing :) Trusilver 09:27, 26 June 2007 (UTC)