User talk:Kevin Scannell

Hi Kevin! David Metzler here. Looks like you are brand new to WP---I have been around for a month or so. Good, clean fun. You might want to set up your e-mail availability. -- Spireguy 04:00, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

Help researching info on MIT graduate Ed Seykota
I need help writing the article about Ed Seykota, I need help researching his time in MIT, I need access to MITs library. I want copies of his thesis, papers etc. I also need official documentation about his degrees at MIT. Please help.

trade2tradewell (at) yahoo (dot) com - Replace "at" with "@", and "(dot)" with "."

Thanks

--Trade2tradewell 20:18, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

Calling programmers
We need coders for the WikiProject Disambigation fixer. We need to make a program to make faster and easier the fixing of links. We will be happy if you could check the project. You can Help! --Neo139 09:06, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks
Correction to Cathal Ó Searcaigh page: you have a  eagle eye! Dmhball~enwiki (talk) 01:17, 3 June 2019 (UTC)

Problems with my Gaelic
Dear Kevin Scannell,

I just wanted to inquire about your deleting of my three articles. I think the possibility of some grammatical mistakes is entirely possible, as well as some general issues of intelligibility due to the topic being one not a common topic of conversation in the Irish Gaelic language. I just wanted to ask about it and I used this example to elaborate upon it:

"Tá an imreoir bisiúl go gránna i a trí bliain le an foireann"

Tá - Simply present form of Bí, identical to English "to be."

Imreoir - Player, derived from "imir." It originally referred to the concept of carrying, but its use as play is well-established, and imreoir's use as a word specifically for players of ballgames is also attested.

bisiúil - There was a typo here, fault taken.

go gránna - Terrifically. Google translate (which I did not use in writing the article, but I used it to check this bit after it was deleted) accepts it and actually combines bisiúil and go gránna as "prolifically," even with the typo

i a trí bliain le an foireann - in his three years with the team

Other than the typo, seems correct.


 * No, unfortunately, far from correct. For starters, Google Translate is not trustworthy! "gránna" means "ugly, offensive, horrible", etc. so I had no clue what you were trying to say here. There are several grammatical mistakes in the remainder as well: it should be "an t-imreoir" since "imreoir" is masculine.  "i a" combines to "ina".  It's "trí bliana", not "trí bliain".  "le an" should be "leis an".  And "foireann" gets eclipsed to "bhfoireann" in the dative. That's a lot to fix in one sentence... it takes a lot of effort for the very small number of fluent speakers to correct articles like this and bring them up to a readable state.  We'd still welcome your help if you're interested in contributing other ways... there's lots to do in terms of infoboxes, categories, and so on while you ramp up your Irish. Kevin Scannell (talk) 03:42, 1 July 2024 (UTC)

Amused
So, thank you for the thanks - I was surprised to see you are in St Louis! I haz family in that there city.

Anyway - I followed the links you provided on your user page and had a very amusing time with google translate. I didn't recognise "Cadhan Aonair" (My Irish is not that good). So I let google translate the page and it claimed it was Single Cows. No, I thought, that's not it. So I stuck Cadhan into a google translate which claimed it was the hindi for resources. I changed it to Irish and it returned rabbits. So I just googled it and it gave me Brent goose. Finally one of the dictionary results suggested lone bird. This has been quite the amusing adventure. Meanwhile I find myself hoping you could take a minute to cast your eye over the various recent Irish language related women I have written articles/Stubs for to see if there are any horrible glaring translation errors since I mostly use machine translation for support.  &#9749;  Antiqueight  chatter 20:01, 14 November 2019 (UTC)
 * And I see you did find an error. Thank you.  &#9749;  Antiqueight  chatter 20:09, 14 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Single Cows!! That's great. I just tweeted that out to Irish-speaking Twitter for a laugh. Happy to look over the articles you've written - maith thú for the work you've done so far, and I'm inspired by your long to-do list as well! Kevin Scannell (talk) 23:16, 14 November 2019 (UTC)

Husseybot questions
Hi Kevin, Husseybot is a great benefit, wonderful for picking up the odd missing fada here and séimhiú there, and I'm very grateful for it! However there's a puzzling message on the Úsáideoir:HusseyBot page, which I looked at just out of interest. It says "Riarthóirí: má tá an róbó seo ag sainmhíniú no ag déanamh damáiste, cuir cosc air, le do thoil." Although I'm no expert in the language, I'm sure the bot would be the first to notice that 'no' is missing a fada! But also, is 'ag sainmhíniú' (defining) really the word that was intended here? Dmhball~enwiki (talk) 14:36, 1 July 2022 (UTC)


 * Hi Dmhball — thanks... I'm hoping to greatly improve the quality of the Irish articles. Plenty of work to do!  That message looks like it comes from the Irish translation of Wikipedia, which unfortunately suffers from the same quality issues as many of the articles on ga.wikipedia.org.  And yes, "sainmhíniú" is clearly wrong... so wrong that I can't even guess what the original English message was. Maybe I'll look into applying some of these automated checks to the translation files. Kevin Scannell (talk) 16:35, 1 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Fear maith! Dmhball~enwiki (talk) 11:12, 2 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Agus: "Riarthóirí:... cuirigí..., le bhur dtoil." Marcas.oduinn (talk) 10:44, 20 July 2022 (UTC)

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