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I am a Bard at heartᚇ and a historian by training (i.e. a Bachelor's Degree and M.Ed in the field), and have been wandering in and out of Wikipedia since June 2013. As one can probably guess from my work regarding Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka, Mary Lee Ware, and related pages, I am loosely affiliated with the Harvard Museum of Natural History and have been volunteering my time for them as an amateur historian. Hence I am also the hand that wrote the articles on the Harvard Australian Expedition (1931–1932), William E. Schevill, the Harvard Medical African Expedition (1926-1927), and Elizabeth Hodges Clark.

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Your edits
I see that you use edit summaries, and that you've been reverted before, at least once with an edit summary that said "you are pushing an untenable POV based on unreliable sources. Stop it.". This is correct. The Order of Bards, Ovates & Druids would be acceptable as a source for its own article in some circumstances, but not for the articles where you are trying to use it. The same applies to druidcircle.org. You can read more about sources at WP:VERIFY and WP:RS. Please stick to academic sources for these articles. Thanks. Dougweller (talk) 06:11, 28 August 2013 (UTC)


 * I hate to be a pain, but that page was part of an undergraduate project - we don't even always use PhD theses, and certainly not undergraduate work. Another point is that if you read it carefully, it doesn't say that there were any Iron Age Druids. Have you read any of Hutton's works on Druids (he's a pagan). Dougweller (talk) 17:13, 28 August 2013 (UTC)

Ovate
I think your work here has uncovered a problem - you were right in that it shouldn't have been a redirect to the definition of the shape, but it turns out that we already have Vates so I've redirected it there - I hope that's ok as it seems to cover what you want to cover, and you might not have known about Vates. Dougweller (talk) 17:26, 28 August 2013 (UTC)

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 * Hi - you haven't given a fair use rationale so I've removed it from the article, and to be honest I'm not sure you can give one at least for this article. I don't think you looked far enough on the Pheryllt and have revised that section. You might want to also read . Dougweller (talk) 11:13, 13 September 2013 (UTC)

Nomination of Dinas Affaraon for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Dinas Affaraon is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Dinas Affaraon until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

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 * The redirection I performed was as a result of this discussion, which you participated in. This was an administrative action reflecting the consensus established there, so simply undoing it as you did is not appropriate. If you believe I erred in interpreting consensus I suggest you pursue deletion review, which is the correct way to challenge the outcome of an AFD discussion. If you were trying to work on the merger you can do that by accessing the page's history to locate material you wish to merge. Beeblebrox (talk) 01:38, 22 September 2013 (UTC)

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Dinas Affaraon ‎
I'm not sure what you thought you were doing, but your edit went against the AfD decision and I see it was reverted. Please leave the redirect as it is. Thanks. Dougweller (talk) 05:33, 22 September 2013 (UTC)

Pheryllt
I see you created a page for this despite only having one unreliable source. Please realise that you need at least two much better sources - such as books by academics - for a new article. I see above that you were told before that the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids does not qualify as a reliable source, and at Articles for deletion/Dinas Affaraon you were shown why interpreting Pheryllt this way is a fringe view. Please, next time you want to make a new page, line up better sources first. Yngvadottir (talk) 16:36, 11 November 2013 (UTC)

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January 2014
Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to introduce inappropriate pages to Wikipedia, as you did at Lots of Articles, you may be blocked from editing. If you need guidance on how to create appropriate pages, try using the Article Wizard. ''Stop uploading images that are clear violations of the artists' copyright.

You have uploaded a slew of non-free images, to which you do not hold the copyright. The fact some of these images have also been posted on blogs doesn't mean those content-stealers had permission, either.

The non-free rationale you have added to these images does not apply: the images are not photographs of a person, or low-res scans of a book cover or album cover; they are pieces of modern artwork and subject to copyright laws. They are also not "a depiction of the subject of the article" as you can't photograph mythological or ancient historical figures.  - Slàn,'' Kathryn NicDhàna  ♫ ♦ ♫ 21:02, 14 January 2014 (UTC)

I see you have also uploaded a piece of clipart to Commons and claimed you hold the copyright to it. Even if you are "OCAL," who created Twisted Branch 2, or one of the other users who created derivative work based on it, this image was taken from clkr.com. While the site specifies: "in case you are the copyright holder you hereby release it under the latest version of the creative commons CC0 public domain dedication" it looks to me like your posting it on WP and claiming you hold the copyright is a violation of their T.O.S. The image has now been deleted. Please take the time to learn about Copyright issues, as this is a serious problem. - Slàn, Kathryn NicDhàna  ♫ ♦ ♫ 22:33, 14 January 2014 (UTC)

As if
To start, I claim the copyright to nothing and if anything what I added implies that then it is a mistake on my part. In terms of the picture from the Silver Branch article, I found the outline (colorless, mind) and did the coloring myself, utterly unaware of another's like work, as I have never heard of http://www.clker.com/clipart-purple-background-branch.html. As to the image that was on the Manannán mac Lir page, that went unchallenged for many weeks, so naturally I assumed it was OK to do like with other articles. Even now, I fail to see the issue with it. Understand, Kathryn NicDhàna, that lack of action is taken as a "yes, this may be done." I do not mean to be insulting, but that is how I see it, nor do I appreciate jumping to conclusions with false accusations. - User:Bard Cadarn

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Earthsea
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More Copyvios. This is a warning.
You've been warned about this before. It is against WP policy to upload copyright artwork to illustrate articles. It does not fall under free use. You've done this a lot in the past and were thoroughly warned. You created a lot of cleanup work for other editors; don't start up again. Diff: - Corbie V  ☊☼ 18:57, 17 August 2015 (UTC)

More hasty judgement. This my response.
Exactly what was the copyright, User:CorbieVreccan? I made it quite clear that it - and I assume you refer to the Brigid picture I uploaded - is used on so many different websites that counting them was an impossibility. And not once was the copyright listed. I only put down "not Fair Use" for safety's sake. Where, might I ask, did you find such clear proof that it is NOT Fair Use? After all, given its un-moderated free usage across the Internet, how could it be otherwise? As to these thorough warnings, as you put it, most were accusations aimed at a then new user still learning the ropes and my responses are still on this page if you care to look for them (look under the As If, heading). As to this Brigid picture though, WHERE WAS ITS COPYRIGHT? I could find no solid evidence of any, so I went against WP policy neither willfully nor wittingly. - User:Bard Cadarn

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Take it to the talk page of Talk:Druid. Do not edit war.
Once again, you're doing things that don't respect WP article structure, and you're not using appropriate sourcing. I know you like creating lots of short, inadequately sourced articles, but you need to consult with other editors. This has been a problem for you for quite a while now and you need to come discuss it. - Co rb ie V    ☊ ☼ 17:12, 16 April 2016 (UTC)

Look before you accuse, Co rb ie V
"Lots of short, inadequately sourced articles" you say? Perhaps you missed my Mary Lee Ware, Silver Branch, Immacallam in dá Thuarad, and His Three Calls to Cormac pages - as well as my contributions to George Lincoln Goodale, Glass Flowers, and Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka. Do not accuse me of cutting corners and look to my other response on Talk:Druid. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bard Cadarn (talk • contribs)


 * Yes, I would definitely encourage other editors to take a look at those articles, as well as this talk page and your contribs in general, notably the deleted ones. - Co rb ie V    ☊ ☼ 17:37, 16 April 2016 (UTC)

Bitter about the past, are we? How about looking at the fact that my good work far outweighs the bad. I acknowledge earlier errors and put them to the fact that I was a new User and thus did not know all the rules and full workings of Wikipedia editing. Don't we all learn by trial and error? But I am wiser now, as my good articles prove, and even then I, like the rest of us, will make a mistake now and again. But one thing I do not do is question the integrity of other editors, as you are doing with me, CorbieVreccan. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bard Cadarn (talk • contribs)


 * Not bitter, but irritated that you keep making the same mistakes over and over again. I would strongly advise you to focus on edits, not what you assume others are feeling or thinking. It's taking you an unusual amount of time to learn to observe and respect basic policy, and I don't think your behaviour has improved much at all since I had to delete handfuls of blatant WP:Copyvios you uploaded. I'm not sure you should keep editing here, quite frankly. You still haven't bothered to learn how to properly use a talk page, and your other article contributions are large swathes of unsourced or inadequately-sourced text, yet you seem to think these are good additions. It is annoying to experienced editors to encounter people who seem to think the policies and rules here don't apply to them, and who create unnecessary work for other editors, which has largely been your pattern on the 'pedia. - Co rb ie V    ☊ ☼ 18:46, 16 April 2016 (UTC)

Large swathes of unsourced or inadequately-sourced text? What pages are you speaking of, Co rb ie V   ? In the past I have done so, yes, and possibly Gallizenae was such a mistake, but what others? And what do you mean that I "still haven't bothered to learn how to properly use a talk page"? Are we not talking now? --Bard Cadarn (talk) 19:26, 16 April 2016 (UTC)

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Glass Sea Creatures
I agree my "fix" may not have been ideal. This capped title seems to be used as more of a generic, not very parallel to the proper name of a collection like Glass Flowers. What do you think we should do to sort it out, given that most sources don't cap it, and you want it to be more about the generic items than a specific collection? My "fix" sort of went both ways on that. Dicklyon (talk) 02:33, 21 March 2017 (UTC)

Blaschka Invertebrate Models
The key, Dicklyon, is that, unlike the Glass Flowers, which is a single collection with an official name, the Blaschka Invertebrate Models are everywhere - in many museums across the world - and have no official name; so yes, the article is about generic items as opposed to a specific collection. Furthermore, each of the names listed on the page is used just as much as the others, and many official sources, such as the websites of Harvard, the Rakow Research Library of The Corning Museum of Glass, and Cornell University, do capitalize the name. It is, frankly, something of a judgement call, and when I wrote the article I chose to to cap the letters so as to reinforce parallel stories between Glass Sea Creatures and their younger botanical cousins. Again, these earlier creations of the Blaschkas do not have the same ironclad officialdom surrounding them: in titles people tend to cap it and then not cap them again. So, in addition to my aforesaid reason of wanting to reinforce parallel stories between Sea Creatures and Flowers, I was trying to follow this trend. I thank you for your interest and your efforts - and and doubly glad to find others interested in the Blaschkas - and dearly hope you understand my reasoning.--Bard Cadarn (talk) 12:46, 22 March 2017 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the explanation. But please review WP:NCCAPS, WP:TITLEFORMAT, MOS:CAPS.  On wikipedia, we reserve caps for proper names, and avoid them for generics or where otherwise unnecessary.  As you can see, sources seldom cap this title "Glass Sea Creatures": books, news, web; even Harvard doesn't cap it except where it's used in a title-case context (a type of context that we don't have on Wikipedia).  So that's why I downcased it.  And Harvard does cap Glass Flowers in the same docs.  I think I should have gone ahead and rewritten the lead more as generic, too, rather than picking an exhibit name.  What do you think?  Dicklyon (talk) 03:01, 23 March 2017 (UTC)


 * Very well, Dicklyon. I yield to standard Wikipedia policy and have made the necessary cap changes.--Bard Cadarn (talk) 00:09, 24 March 2017 (UTC)

Glass flowers
You need to participate in the talk page discussion rather than repeatedly reverting on Glass Flowers. To do otherwise makes it appear that you have WP:OWN problems. Please stop reverting until you get a consensus on talk for the version you prefer. As it is, the other version is standing unopposed in the discussion. Your claim in the edit summary that the discussion did not have "many" editors involved is irrelevant — all the editors who cared to participate agreed. —David Eppstein (talk) 23:27, 5 April 2017 (UTC)

Speak of what you know
Repeatedly reverting? The Glass Flowers] page has been repeatedly and carelessly stripped to its bones by a single user who clearly does not know anything about them and whose Wikipedia history is a long list of offenses. Did you even read the Revision History, David Eppstein? The offending user strips and blanks for no scholarly reason and I am undoing the damage just as administrators such Co rb ie V    do on other pages. Frankly, what the offending user does is possible vandalism and I shall report it once I have given the required four warnings. I have no WP:OWN problems, for those who wish to delete parts are free to do so if said sections are judged as biased, unprofessional, and/or inadequately sourced, per standard Wikipedia protocol. But such reasons were not cited, and the offending user is quite unprofessional. --Bard Cadarn (talk) 00:26, 6 April 2017 (UTC)
 * The reason, as clearly explained on the talk page, is that the version you prefer is childish and unencyclopedic tripe. —David Eppstein (talk) 00:54, 6 April 2017 (UTC)
 * See my reply on the talk page. This is your first warning.--Bard Cadarn (talk) 01:18, 6 April 2017 (UTC)

Speaking of warnings: Your recent editing history at Glass Flowers shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war. To resolve the content dispute, please do not revert or change the edits of others when you are reverted. Instead of reverting, please use the talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. The best practice at this stage is to discuss, not edit-war. See BRD for how this is done. If discussions reach an impasse, you can then post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection.

Being involved in an edit war can result in your being blocked from editing&mdash;especially if you violate the three-revert rule, which states that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Also keep in mind that while violating the three-revert rule often leads to a block, you can still be blocked for edit warring&mdash;even if you don't violate the three-revert rule&mdash;should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly.. Also, your claims that the edits in question are vandalism are false and a personal attack, as are your comments about EEng. Do not think you can rely on the "reverting vandalism" clause of 3RR to escape consequences for your edit warring. —David Eppstein (talk) 02:03, 6 April 2017 (UTC)


 * This makes no sense, David Eppstein. I get the warning, but EEng, who engaged in mass deletions without discussion, does not? You say "undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert" and yet that is exactly what EEng did on a massive scale within a 24 hour period a bit back. Please explain.--Bard Cadarn (talk) 02:08, 6 April 2017 (UTC)
 * You have now undone EEng's improvements to the article three times in rapid succession. A fourth and you are very likely to be blocked. Stop your edit warring, stop talking about other people's behavior, and start discussing, on the article talk page, the actual content of the article, and why you think that ridiculously breathless description is worth keeping. —David Eppstein (talk) 04:56, 6 April 2017 (UTC)
 * See the Glass Flowers talk page for my full response. I note, though, that you did not answer my question, David Eppstein, nor respond to my words. It is you, I fear, who will not discuss, as I am getting naught but repeated warnings as opposed to clarifications. --Bard Cadarn (talk) 13:11, 6 April 2017 (UTC)

Of glass flowers and procedures
Hello. I saw your request about what arbitration is. Most administrators (I am not one of them) are very busy, and they cannot use their administrator tool undiscriminately. As very experienced editors their input is valuable, but these are procedures which everyone should learn about, so I'll try to resume possibilities below:
 * The Tea House (WP:Teahouse) can be a place to ask questions about what procedures are available, or to invite non-involved editors who like giving help to look at an article, etc. It has a relaxed atmosphere where others can also comment, usually without dramatic consequences.
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 * If a dispute cannot be resolved, another possibility would be dispute resolution (WP:DR).
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 * Another last resort is arbitration (WP:ARB), which even administrators can use to reach consensus in some cases. The administrator you contacted is part of this committee, I believe.

As for this particular issue, my personal uninvolved impression: I perceived the example quotes that were presented by EEng as indeed having a promotional tone which should be avoided on Wikipedia (WP:PROMOTION). And I was impressed by the beauty of this form of art. I think that the article is promising. I hope this helps, and wish you a nice day, —░] PaleoNeonate █ ⏎ ? ERROR ░ 18:05, 6 April 2017 (UTC)

Image licensing problems (but don't panic)
Hi there. A problem's come up with several of the images you uploaded, in that you tagged them this way: "The copyright holder of this file allows anyone to use it for any purpose, provided that use is approved by the Harvard University Herbaria and Botany Libraries". With extremely narrow exceptions, the Wiki projects can't use material burdened by this kind of limitation -- see Commons:Commons:Deletion requests/Files uploaded by Bard Cadarn. Now don't panic, because we can probably fix this. First, I need to know two things:

 E Eng  18:35, 7 April 2017 (UTC)
 * The images File:Ware_Dedication_plaque.jpg and File:Ware Dedication plaque translation.jpg -- did you take that yourself?
 * The other images -- did you scan those, or get them from some website, or what?
 * Yes,  E Eng , I took the Ware Dedication plaque image myself. As to the rest, I was given permission to upload them to Wikipedia by the Herbaria archivists - but only under those conditions/expectations; some images I got from the website, others I scanned in the Botany Libraries. --Bard Cadarn (talk) 20:43, 7 April 2017 (UTC)
 * I've commented over there but it is important in these cases to list the dates the photos were taken and the dates they were published, not the dates the scans or copies were made of them. If they were published in the US before 1923, they are public domain and should not have been marked as being copyrighted (but this would also save them from deletion). As for the plaque, it's a modern photo but of a two-dimensional object, so the copyright (if it exists) is on the object and not the photo, and it's important to know when the plaque was actually emplaced. Was it 1887, the later of the two dates on the plaque, or some other date? —David Eppstein (talk) 21:59, 7 April 2017 (UTC)
 * The exact dates are unknown, David Eppstein, but Leopold died in 1895, so the ones with him were obviously taken beforehand. As for the plaque, the Wares kept their connection with the Blaschkas secret until 1888, so it must have emplaced between then and 1937 (when Mary Lee Ware died); the exact date of its emplacement I do not know, but I would be greatly surprised if it was not done early on. Finally, regarding the photos of the Wares themselves, Prof. Goodale, and the Ware Family Farm, I must confess again to not knowing the exact dates; in fact, that was part of what the HMNH was hoping I would uncover. Still, given that Goodale died in 1923 and Miss Ware in 1937, it can be safely assumed that they were taken before 1923.--Bard Cadarn (talk) 23:37, 7 April 2017 (UTC)


 * Check Commons:Commons:Deletion requests/Files uploaded by Bard Cadarn -- all should be well now.  E Eng  21:29, 12 April 2017 (UTC)
 * That is a relief. You have my thanks,  E Eng . Just please be sure to remove the "nominated for deletion" tags from the photos (it is still there on the one of Mary Lee Ware).--Bard Cadarn (talk) 02:35, 14 April 2017 (UTC)

Your edit to Odd Squad
Please do not add original research or novel syntheses of published material to articles as you apparently did to Odd Squad. Please cite a reliable source for all of your contributions. I sort of wanted to notify you of this revert without using a template but couldn't think of a better way to phrase the issue. Carmen Sandiego does in my eyes bear resemblance to Todd now that I think about it, but adding it to the article is original research and therefore inappropriate for Wikipedia. (It's probably also giving a little undue weight to his part, especially considering it among other chraracter profiles were previously extensively pared down because the profiles were basically eating the article. Plus you indented it and phrased it as if you were on a talk page rather than in an article.) It could be brought up if there are reliable sources discussing/analyzing the connection, but otherwise it's not really encyclopedic. Thanks. - Purplewowies (talk) 06:28, 26 April 2017 (UTC)

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April 2020
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See Talk:Historicity of King Arthur for my answer, Ghmyrtle. --Bard Cadarn (talk) 19:47, 17 April 2020 (UTC)

Please do not refer to editors using their unofficial service awards
These are just for fun - I'm a "Grand High Togneme Vicarus", but calling someone a Grandmaster Editor in an edit summary is misleading at best. Doug Weller talk 15:06, 18 April 2020 (UTC)
 * I agree - potentially misleading, and very silly indeed. Ghmyrtle (talk) 15:14, 18 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Point taken, Doug Weller, and no offense intended,Ghmyrtle. I simply did so to prevent the impression that I was edit warring. (Also, I was not aware that one was not supposed to.) --Bard Cadarn (talk) 15:53, 18 April 2020 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Earthsea (universe)


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Glass flowers and sea creatures
Nice work (here and in your profession), thank you. You may want to consider adding a couple images of the flowers and creatures to the Glass art and Art glass pages. Saw the Harvard exhibit during Wikipedia's 2019 North American conference, one of the highlights and was on my "list" of must-sees in the Boston area. Randy Kryn (talk) 14:40, 21 March 2021 (UTC)


 * My thanks and I think I shall in the near future. Thank you for the suggestion. Bard Cadarn (talk) 19:42, 21 March 2021 (UTC)