User talk:Hope Springs Eternal

Regarding your edit to Maria Klementyna Sobieska:
Your recent edit to Maria Klementyna Sobieska (diff) was reverted by automated bot. The edit was identified as adding either vandalism or link spam to the page. If this revert was in error, please contact the bot operator. Thanks! // VoABot II 11:16, 7 December 2006 (UTC)


 * As regards your comments to Vintagekits, the topic is under discussion here Mediation Cabal/Cases/2006-12-02 IRA 'Volunteer' usage and so is already in mediation. Feel free to contribute Weggie 12:04, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

IRA "volunteer" usage
You recently discussed this matter on User:Vintagekits talk page. Whether to use "member" or "V/volunteer" is under mediation. You can see this at: Mediation Cabal/Cases/2006-12-02 IRA 'Volunteer' usage. You can also see a discussion at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style_%28Ireland-related_articles%29#IRA_articles:_usage_of_the_word_.22volunteer.22. Logica 22:58, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Sorry, just realised Weggie beat me to it! Logica 23:20, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

Regarding your edit to Thomas Stoltz Harvey:
Your recent edit to Thomas Stoltz Harvey (diff) was reverted by automated bot. The edit was identified as adding either vandalism or link spam to the page. If this revert was in error, please contact the bot operator. Thanks! // VoABot II 22:08, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

List of people from York, Pennsylvania
Hi, I removed the speedy deletion tag from this article because there's no reason to delete it. As you point out, this article has a lot of room for expansion, and just because it hasn't yet been done is no reason to delete the article. If you have any questoins, please feel free to ask them here or on my talk page --- Deville (Talk) 17:19, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

Ok, what are you doing?
I noticed that you're going through a lot of articles and removing the categories from several people, and then nominating the categories for redirection since they are empty. Of course, they're not empty because you've removed all of the entries. Could you please explain to me why you are doing that? I don't see any discussion of this anywhere, and what you're doing really looks a lot like vandalism. Please explain! -- Deville (Talk) 17:22, 10 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Thanks for answering. Sorry, I misinterpreted a lot of what you were doing with the counties when I looked at your earlier contributions, and I thought your actions were more widespread.  So, looking more carefully, it looks like what you're doing with, for example, Adams Country is ok.  Sorry about the confusion (which was entirely my fault!) --- Deville (Talk) 17:40, 10 December 2006 (UTC)


 * I see what you're saying. Yeah, that looked strange but now I understand why you did it.  You might also find it useful to check out Help:Category and Categorization FAQ if you don't already know about them.  There's usually a pattern for how a class of categories work (and I'm not entirely fluent with the "people from..." categories) and it's best if the ones you're making fit into the same framework people have already made.  Hope this helps --- Deville (Talk) 17:47, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Richard Doherty (military historian)
A tag has been placed on Richard Doherty (military historian) requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be a blatant copyright infringement. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words.

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Unreferenced BLPs
Hello Hope Springs Eternal! Thank you for your contributions. I am a bot alerting you that 1 of the articles that you created  is an  Unreferenced Biography of a Living Person. Please note that all biographies of living persons must be sourced. If you were to add reliable, secondary sources to this article, it would greatly help us with the current  article backlog. Once the article is adequately referenced, please remove the unreferencedBLP tag. Here is the article:

Thanks!--DASHBot (talk) 16:45, 2 January 2010 (UTC)
 * 1) Ciarán Mackel -