User talk:Brian McNeil/Archive 16

Welcome
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Great, just what we need around this place... more MCs. :) Cheers. --Lord Voldemort (Dark Mark) 21:19, 1 September 2005 (UTC)


 * Belated thanks for the welcome. :) I'm more of a Wikinewsie, best to use my talk page over there. Brianmc 21:29, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

Common.css
What is the point of MediaWiki:Common.css/User:Brian McNeil and MediaWiki:Common.css/User talk:Brian McNeil? As far as I can see, they don't do anything, and per WP:SMI, it's probably good that whatever they're intended to do doesn't work. Ucucha (talk) 13:44, 19 August 2011 (UTC)

MfD nomination of MediaWiki:Common.css/User:Brian McNeil
MediaWiki:Common.css/User:Brian McNeil, a page you substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/MediaWiki:Common.css/User:Brian McNeil and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes ( ~ ). You are free to edit the content of MediaWiki:Common.css/User:Brian McNeil during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. WOSlinker (talk) 00:43, 11 December 2011 (UTC)

MfD nomination of MediaWiki:Common.css/User talk:Brian McNeil
MediaWiki:Common.css/User talk:Brian McNeil, a page you substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/MediaWiki:Common.css/User talk:Brian McNeil and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes ( ~ ). You are free to edit the content of MediaWiki:Common.css/User talk:Brian McNeil during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. WOSlinker (talk) 00:43, 11 December 2011 (UTC)

WikiProject Scotland post
Hi Brian, just read your interesting post at WikiProject Scotland. Just to say, unfamiliar with the acronym GLAM I had to look up, which was easy enough but it might be worth putting in a wikilink to WP:GLAM for others similarly ignorant of the term. Didn't want to tinker with someone else's post but. Mutt Lunker (talk) 21:31, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
 * I wouldn't have been in the slightest bit bothered if you'd linked GLAM. I've added in a note of the acronym meaning, and a link to WP:GLAM. --Brian McNeil /talk 21:46, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks; I've gone ahead and linked it at your first mention as well. Mutt Lunker (talk) 22:02, 12 December 2011 (UTC)

A kitten for you!
A kitty you deserve. :) You do a fantastic job with Wikinews.  Great stuff.  The project is awesome.

LauraHale (talk) 00:08, 16 January 2012 (UTC) 

Courtesy note
Just noting I (finally) replied at AWNB. Sorry for the delay - was interstate for a week and didn't have ready access to internet. Orderinchaos 00:18, 28 January 2012 (UTC)

Thank you very much
Brian, thanks ever so much for your comments about me. Most appreciated, &mdash; Cirt (talk) 20:03, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

Library
"having been dropped in Wigan during a 1974 reorganisation of local government, it is the only municipality in the UK to use the classification system."

This bit here stands out as a little odd. The first thing is that there is no context as to what "Wigan" is. It seems like the whole sentence would be better split into 2-3. Thoughts?Human.v2.0 (talk) 10:00, 15 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Wigan is a town in England (see Road to Wigan Pier. Also, please see the article talk page regarding loans vs issues. I appreciate the help, but can you come back to it in a couple hours when I've pushed the material I've got into the library.
 * I'll even get the head librarian to check it ;-) --Brian McNeil /talk 10:02, 15 May 2012 (UTC)


 * Yeah, I figured the Wigan part out, it just shouldn't require the puzzlement. And okay, I'll check on the page in the evening or something; don't mean to step on toes. Best of luck with the work. Human.v2.0 (talk) 10:05, 15 May 2012 (UTC)


 * Thanks Brian for the library articles! A couple of pointers for future additions: library should have a capital if its part of the name, so the article title should be McDonald Road Library not McDonald Road library. Also, please use full references if possible, so not just "Lum hats in paradise", which means nothing on its own, but "Armstrong, Norma; White, Alan (1990). Lum hats in paradise: Edinburgh City Libraries, 1890–1990. Edinburgh: Edinburgh City Libraries." You can use the cite book and cite web templates to help. Thanks, Jonathan Oldenbuck (talk) 14:02, 15 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Just getting to grips with Wikipedia's style of citations, far from as straightforward as I'd like&mdash;or am used to on Wikinews. Is there a short, readily-followed guide that would print on a single-sided piece of A4?
 * As far as I can tell, with a little tidying up on the McDonald Road Library article, the use of LoCC in the city might make an interesting little DYK.
 * I've mentioned elsewhere, but I'm getting access to Edinburgh's Central Library next week to take photographs. Their current Principal Librarian would also like a chat about Wikipedia. Since getting the city's librarians knowledgeable regarding how to contribute, including citing references, would go a long way to improving on-the-ground contributions here, I'd welcome advice/assistance. --Brian McNeil /talk 10:13, 16 May 2012 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the offer, but probably a bit busy to commit to "another" mini-project...! Good luck at Central Library, some useful info on the listed building report. Thanks, Jonathan Oldenbuck (talk) 11:10, 23 May 2012 (UTC)

Please take a look at this.
Please give your input on the following discussion. User talk:Fifelfoo Thanks. -- Avanu (talk) 01:23, 6 July 2012 (UTC)

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 the WP Scotland noticeboard. Richard Symonds (WMUK) (talk) 16:02, 22 April 2013 (UTC)

UK Wikimedian of the Year 2013/Nominations
The Wikimedia UK AGM will be held in June, and nominations for the UK Wikimedian of the Year are currently open. If there is someone who you feel has made an important contribution to the UK Wikimedia movement in the last year please go ahead and nominate them here by 09:00 (BST) on Monday 20th May at the latest. Richard Nevell (WMUK) (talk) 13:10, 17 May 2013 (UTC)

Signature
Hi there. Per the relevant policy, please kindly update your signature so that somewhere in it there is a link pointing to your local userpage and/or talkpage. Thanks. — PinkAmpers  &#38;  ( Je vous invite à me parler )  12:57, 3 July 2013 (UTC)
 * I'm not going to read the entire policy, the relevant bit is "a talk page a user can readily communicate with you through". This isn't it, because this is not my home project.
 * Apologies if leaving Kansas causes people confusion, but I do not appear to be violating policy. (Unless someone chucked Wikinews out the WMF whilst I was busy elsewhere). --Brian McNeil /talk'' 06:14, 4 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Maybe my browser's ctrl is being funky, but I don't actually see the line you're referring to. The section in question is WP:SIGLINK: I agree with you that there's nothing wrong with linking to your Wikinews pages—in my signature on Meta, the & links to my Wikidata page—but I think policy's fairly clear that you have to have some link to a local page. While some of the signature purists might disagree with me, I certainly don't see it as a problem to link to a sister project in your signature... but such links have to be in addition to local links, not instead of them. —  PinkAmpers  &#38;  ( Je vous invite à me parler )  06:49, 4 July 2013 (UTC)
 * An external link looks like this. Wikinews is my home wiki, a sister project, and the one where I would want people to look at my content contributions when deciding if I know what I'm talking about.
 * To be honest, I try to avoid getting sucked into the poisonous atmosphere of Wikipedia politics; largely because well-meaning comments like yours are difficult not to take the wrong way. I expect, by the time I'm next 'nagged' on this, someone will have tweaked the policy/guideline you refer to such that is says internal link to a Wikipedia talk page; but, right now, I am going to interpret the policy in a more-liberal manner; that is, I consider a link like this an internal link. --Brian McNeil /talk 07:11, 4 July 2013 (UTC)
 * An internal link has always been understood to refer to an English Wikipedia page, not a sister project... just like Wikinews, we have our own policies here, even if Wikinews may be different. :-) Please see Help:Link, particularly "A wikilink (or internal link) links a page to another page within English Wikipedia." Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 06:34, 8 July 2013 (UTC)
 * And, here we have the example of why directing people to my talk page here is useless. Not looked at Wikipedia, whilst logged in, for two weeks. So, can't exactly say fixing my signature, by doing something trivial like linking a full-stop here, is productive; or pure pedantry. --Brian McNeil /talk 07:48, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

Cardiff WikiMeet
Hi. Just letting you know that we've now got a dedicated space upstairs ar the Urban Tap House. See you there! --Rhyswynne (talk) 09:49, 31 October 2013 (UTC)

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ArbCom elections are now open!
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The 10,000 Challenge
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Europe 10,000 Challenge invite
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WikiProject Women in Red/The World Contest
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