User talk:Serpren

Timestamps in signatures
Hi, I just noticed you have been changing timestamps in your signatures, for example here. Please don't do this - timestamps help other editors see who said what and when. Your changes on that talk page make it look as though you made those comments in the future! Timestamps use UTC for consistency., so the time shewn may be different from the time in your own timezone. Thanks, DuncanHill (talk) 11:40, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

Your recent edits to Canberra United FC were unhelpful, you did not mention the influence of Sennen or the Welsh. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.160.180.154 (talk) 11:39, 4 May 2009 (UTC)

Original research
Thanks for your recent contributions, especially the care you're taking to request and cite sources, but please make sure when citing that you only include what the sources actually say. For instance in this edit to Devonwall, you included what looks like your own negative opinion of the event: "...did not engender great support, with only a couple of hundred people attending...", that the source does not express. This is original research and not permitted here, by policy.

If you can find another reliable source that asserts the "it was a flop" point of view, you could cite it and add something along those lines; but if you do, you ought to see if the opposing POV "it was a success" has been expressed too and if so, mention that as well, thus maintaining neutrality. Hope this is clear. Best, —S MALL  JIM   14:20, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

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A couple of things
Hi. Far be it from me to appear to discourage a keen editor - esp. a Cornishman - but I'm sure you'll want to be seen to do a 'proper job'(!), so I thought I'd let you know re these 2 things. Best wishes, Trafford09 (talk) 21:02, 24 July 2013 (UTC) Thank you for your contributions. Please remember to mark your edits, such as your recent edits to Camborne, as "minor" only if they truly are minor edits. In accordance with Help:Minor edit, a minor edit is one that the editor believes requires no review and could never be the subject of a dispute. Minor edits consist of things such as typographical corrections, formatting changes or rearrangement of text without modification of content. Additionally, the reversion of clear-cut vandalism and test edits may be labeled "minor". Thank you. Trafford09 (talk) 20:52, 24 July 2013 (UTC)

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. I noticed your recent edit to Cornish nationalism does not have an edit summary. Please provide one before saving your changes to an article, as the summaries are quite helpful to people browsing an article's history. Thanks! Trafford09 (talk) 20:55, 24 July 2013 (UTC)

Kernow
I'm guessing - humour me - but you may be interested in the Category for Cornish Wikipedians?

In case you didn't know, many people add such things to their userpage.

This also means of course that when signing talk pages like this, User:Trafford09 is blue (see also below, at end), whereas some newcomers (& User:Serpren at the moment) are still red.

Also - you perhaps already knew - there's Portal:Cornwall.

Your choice entirely, of course. Regards, the blue Trafford09 (talk) 10:14, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

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Cornwall
You know very well that the compromise wording is "Cornwall, England, UK", please stick to that! DuncanHill (talk) 14:17, 16 November 2014 (UTC)


 * Per this placename consensus, please cease making bulk changes to UK placenames. The compromise wording alluded to above by DuncanHill is not simply to be enforced everywhere. Thanks, Bretonbanquet (talk) 11:27, 9 March 2015 (UTC)

If it is a convention, it is to be used where applicable, ie. articles referring to Cornwall.01:57, 10 March 2015 (UTC)


 * The consensus is very clear. Do not make systematic changes of this type. Bretonbanquet (talk) 11:02, 10 March 2015 (UTC)
 * The "Cornwall, England, UK" convention doesn't appear to stand up very well anyway, as you have been reverted everywhere you've been lately by an admin. Where is this convention? Bretonbanquet (talk) 11:05, 10 March 2015 (UTC)

I'll be contacting the admin to enquire why it has been changed, and why I have not been notified of these changes. The convention is in the message from Duncan Hill above.
 * He's not obliged to notify you, why would he? And no, you need a lot more than the word of another editor if you expect this "convention" to trump a properly achieved consensus. Bretonbanquet (talk) 11:26, 11 March 2015 (UTC)

Since you have no intention of following this consensus, there is an ANI report concerning you here. Bretonbanquet (talk) 11:07, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

You have been blocked temporarily from editing for abuse of editing privileges. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions. If you think there are good reasons why you should be unblocked, you may appeal this block by adding the following text below this notice:. However, you should read the guide to appealing blocks first. -- Orange Mike &#124;  Talk  17:57, 1 April 2015 (UTC)

I have been blocked for sticking what I believe is the long standing agreed convention on pages relating to Cornwall, that is the geographic location reading "Cornwall, England, UK." If this convention has changed, or has been updated, please would someone be so kind as to inform me what the new naming convention is for Cornish place names? I would hate to make the same error again. Please could someone clarify? In my defense, I never stated that I would make edits against advice, but no resolution or clarification of "Cornwall, England, UK," conundrum has been forthcoming. I think it worth noting that User "Bretonbanquet" is pushing the same "Cornish Nationalist" agenda here which led to so many disputes, and the adoption of the "Cornwall, England, UK," convention in the first place, and he has probably roped in more "Nationalists" to aid his cause.

If nothing else comes of this sorry episode, please could we have some clarification on the correct terminology for Cornish place names?

My sincere apologies for any problems my genuinely held belief that the adoption of "Cornwall, England, UK," is the agreed convention, may have caused. Your sincerely Serpren (talk) 02:01, 2 April 2015 (UTC)


 * If you had actually looked at my edits you'd see the idea of a "nationalist agenda" is very wide of the mark. The idea that I've "roped in more nationalists" is laughable. Who, exactly? Go and read WP:AGF. The situation regarding the correct terminology has been explained to you at ANI, but the point is that it is not to be enforced via mass changes. That was very clear from the consensus I have linked to you a number of times. It's probably about time you understood that it applies to you, as well as me and everyone else. Bretonbanquet (talk) 10:40, 2 April 2015 (UTC)

So why have you not accepted WP:AGF with regard to my edits, they follow a consensus and are done without malice. I do not understand this reluctance for "mass changes". If a consensus is reached with regard to a designation, why should efforts not be made to ensure conformity? Cornwall is in England, therefore the Wiki entries with regard to Cornwall should reflect that. I see no problem with them being done in batches, and almost all now do have the correct designation.Serpren (talk) 23:14, 2 April 2015 (UTC)
 * AGF doesn't come into it regarding your edits. It's not your rationale that is disruptive, but the principle. The reluctance for mass changes derives from the fact that, generally, no single format is better than any other, and none is wrong. The consensus on Cornish articles specifically states that changes are not made unless making other substantive edits. You do not do that. The other consensus very clearly states no mass changes. It is not relevant if you understand why or not. Everyone has to stick to it. That you consider your preferred format "correct" shows that you don't understand. It's just a local consensus, so unenforceable anyway. It's not a guideline. You still refuse to explain why you don't add UK to Cornish placenames that don't already have it. Bretonbanquet (talk) 21:15, 3 April 2015 (UTC)

I'll leave it to others who have the desire to add "UK", it's not, in my eyes, needed. Still there's no need for me to edit further, as most Cornish articles now have the desired denomination. Job done. Serpren (talk) 03:19, 4 April 2015 (UTC)


 * So you slavishly follow the consensus where it suits you, and not where it doesn't. That says everything about your editing, and explains why the admins did not hesitate to block you. Still, if you are not going to continue editing, there will be no further problems. Bretonbanquet (talk) 10:32, 4 April 2015 (UTC)

You have been blocked temporarily from editing for abuse of editing privileges. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions. If you think there are good reasons why you should be unblocked, you may appeal this block by first reading the guide to appealing blocks, then adding the following text below this notice:. -- Orange Mike &#124;  Talk  17:33, 28 April 2015 (UTC)

I have made changes along with the long standing convention on places names in cornwall. I have made three changes over a period of some weeks. My being reported is a blatant piece of political grandstanding by a  Cornish nationalist. Talk please can you let me know what the agreed  convention on Cornish place names is, and why the vandalism of my edits by Bretonbanquet is allowed to continue? As Bretonbanquet says above "you slavishly follow the consensus where it suits you". So if I am following convention, then the changes I have made should not be vandalised
 * User:Serpren, please fill in the unblock request properly. If your defence is just that you were right about the content issue, admins are unlikely to be persuaded. You should agree to wait patiently for consensus before making controversial edits. Attacking other editors in your request ('blatant grandstanding') isn't going to win over hearts and minds. See WP:NOTTHEM. EdJohnston (talk) 04:52, 29 April 2015 (UTC)

Apologies Ed, I posted in anger at the way I have yet again been reported, I will compose an unblock request as per protocol as soon as possible. Best wishes,Serpren (talk) 10:03, 29 April 2015 (UTC)

State your reason for believing your block was incorrect or for requesting reconsideration. I believe my blocking was incorrect, I was reported for changing Cornish articles to read "Cornwall, England, UK/United Kingdom". My edits were merely to uphold the long agreed convention on Cornish place names, that is that the term “Cornwall, England, UK,” should be used when describing places and events, or attributes of Cornwall.

This is now the case in 90% of articles on Cornwall and the Cornish, I was adding conformity where it was not in place.

At one point, where I had missed the “UK/United Kingdom” off the edit, I was informed thus; '''You know very well that the compromise wording is "Cornwall, England, UK", please stick to that! DuncanHill (talk) 14:17, 16 November 2014 (UTC)''' This is the first comment above, under the "Cornwall" heading

I have adhered to that convention ever since.

Address the blocking administrator's concerns about your conduct (the reason given for your block).

I was informed that making “bulk changes” to Wiki articles, was against convention, and had ceased doing so. I had edited three articles where the correct term “Cornwall, England, UK,” was not in place over a period of three weeks.

I have asked twice now for the admims who have instituted the block to clarify for me what the correct geographical descriptor for articles on or about Cornwall are, I do not believe the “Cornwall, England, UK,” convention has been changed, but will happily abide by any new convention if informed of it.

Give evidence. I have no evidence, except the information given to me by Duncan Hill above, and that added below, but it seems very clear cut that my edits were within the spirit of the Wiki convention on Cornish geographical delineations. I believe that I have acted in good faith when informed of that my bulk changes were against convention, and do not believe I have done anything wrong in my recent edits. I offer this in my defense;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:UK_Wikipedians%27_notice_board/Archive_16#England.2C_UK_or_just_England.3F

As an FYI, there's a long-standing special-case consensus to use "England, UK" for places in Cornwall. See Wikipedia:CornwallGuideline and the bit of recent discussion on its talk page. —SMALLJIM 22:56, 4 November 2013 (UTC

Consensus regarding the debate over describing Cornwall's status as a county or a country on Wikipedia was reached in 2006. The general agreement was: '''•	Cornwall may not be culturally part of England, however, administratively it is. Articles related to Cornwall should reflect the situation at this present time; they should only be adjusted if/when the situation changes.''' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Cornwall/Guideline

I’ll apologise once more for my intemperate remarks above, but I was very angry at what I saw as a politically motivated attack on my veracity.Serpren (talk) 10:03, 29 April 2015 (UTC)


 * I will not reverse the decision without discussion, but have contacted the blocking admin. It appears that there may be an anomaly in the policies here.--Anthony Bradbury"talk" 12:02, 29 April 2015 (UTC)


 * Comment by slightly involved editor. Serpren is right that "Cornwall, England, UK" has been adopted for articles about places in Cornwall, as a compromise designed to stop the edit warring we used to get between those who would not have any mention of England, and those who would not allow any mention at all of the Cornish constitutional question and nationalist aspirations except in ghettoized stand-alone articles. It has worked pretty well on the whole. I have to say I'm amazed to see Serpren blocked for actually using the correct form - in the past he hasn't been very good at it so it's good that he now is, I'm not surprised however to see who appears to have stirred things up, or that he was blocked without the admin bothering to check the facts. I'm not a fan of Serpren at all, but this block seems on the face of it to be bad. DuncanHill (talk) 12:41, 29 April 2015 (UTC)


 * This placename consensus is very clear, and Serpren has persistently ignored it despite several warnings. It was intended (and it works) to stop exactly this drive-by changing of placenames. While Serpren follows the Cornish consensus, it does make clear that changes to the format are generally only made while making other substantive edits to the article in question (Serpren has never done that), and he is not permitted to make bulk changes to placenames (he rarely does anything else). Furthermore, he has only applied this consensus to placenames which do not contain 'England'. He has never added 'UK' to those which do not contain it. He then claims a political attack on him, which I find most ironic. Anyone who selectively applies any consensus to suit his own preference, particularly while breaking another (newer) consensus, is simply editing disruptively. I haven't missed that he's also accused me of vandalism, which I would like to see retracted. Bretonbanquet (talk) 22:38, 29 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Serpren, if you were unblocked, what substantive, useful, constructive edits would you be making to Wikipedia in areas outside of naming places in Cornwall? -- Orange Mike &#124;  Talk  02:36, 30 April 2015 (UTC)

DuncanHill Duncan, that is kind, courteous and considerate of you, my thanks, I'm humbled.

Orangemike Outside of giving places in Cornwall the correct and agreed naming convention, I would add information as and when I acquire it. I cannot predict what will come to my attention, (I don't have a crystal ball, :-) ) for example, I did recently add to the "Cornish People" page some relevant genetic information, and some information and citations to the "Song of the Western men" page. I would also ask that you look at  Duncan's post above.

Bretonbanquet I withdraw, and fully apologise for my use of the term "vandalism". As I have already stated above, I posted in anger at being blocked again, when I had tried scrupulously to follow convention.

EdJohnston Thanks for that. I do hope any anomaly can be eradicated. Serpren (talk) 03:03, 2 May 2015 (UTC)


 * Serpren, I accept your apology. But are you saying you will continue to ignore the consensus on bulk changes of UK placenames? Apart from the two edits you made to the articles you mention, everything else you've done is bulk changes to UK placenames. I'm not really seeing that you understand the placename consensus, nor the spirit of the consensus on Cornish placenames. It's there to avoid arguments – it simply doesn't say that the "Cornwall, England, UK" format should be enforced everywhere, and particularly not selectively as you've been doing. Moreover, the placename consensus specifically says no placename format should be enforced at all. Do you have any comment about that? Bretonbanquet (talk) 14:22, 2 May 2015 (UTC)
 * I should add that if that Cornish consensus was designed to enforce that format across Cornish articles, then the editors who drew up that consensus would have enforced it already. It is not intended to be enforced. Bretonbanquet (talk) 14:40, 2 May 2015 (UTC)

- would you object to an unblock on a time served basis? PhilKnight (talk) 20:23, 2 May 2015 (UTC)
 * IF he agrees to "drop the stick" and quit "giving places in Cornwall the correct and agreed naming convention" in violation of what we've been trying to tell him was the agreement (note that it is the consensus; that doesn't make it "correct"), then yes I certainly would. -- Orange Mike &#124;  Talk  21:22, 2 May 2015 (UTC)

Orangemike I'm happy to agree to NEVER changing another article to read "Cornwall, England, UK." Most Cornish articles now have this, and the ones which do not are minor. I must admit I'm still confused as to what the point of agreeing consensus is, if it does not need to be applied. But that's by the by. When my block is lifted I shall continue to add to Cornish articles when I have anything of interest or value to add.

Cheers, Craig 02:59, 3 May 2015 (UTC)

Dead reference links
Please see WP:DEADREF - it is inappropriate to simply remove a reference to a dead link without at least attempting to find an archived page or an alternative source. AndyTheGrump (talk) 06:15, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

Thanks AndyTheGrump, I have been attempting to, should I just mark and leave any dead links?Serpren (talk) 06:54, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

June 2015
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July 2015
Hello, I'm DuncanHill. I wanted to let you know that I undid one or more of your recent contributions to Cornish heraldry because it did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. DuncanHill (talk) 09:04, 29 July 2015 (UTC)

Thank you for your contributions. Please mark your edits as "minor" only if they are minor edits. In accordance with Help:Minor edit, a minor edit is one that the editor believes requires no review and could never be the subject of a dispute. Minor edits consist of things such as typographical corrections, formatting changes or rearrangement of text without modification of content. Additionally, the reversion of clear-cut vandalism and test edits may be labeled "minor". You appear to be marking all your edits as minor, even when they clearly are not. This can be misleading to other editors. DuncanHill (talk) 09:18, 29 July 2015 (UTC)

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