User talk:SkywalkerEccleston

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July 2019
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Sir William Talbot, 1st Baronet
Dear SkywalkerEccleston, I am very pleased to meet another Wikipedian interested in the Irish 17th century and especially the corresponding biographies and their citations. With 163 edits you are still a newby, but you do not really behave like one, having developed fixed interests and being interested in citations. Also you avoided writing a huge user page talking a lot about yoursself, something many newbies do. On the other hand, you add citations, what few newbies do but which is probably what we most need.

I would be pleased to collaborate and discuss with you, concerning e. g. knowledge about the mentioned subject matter and sources for it, knowledge about Wikipedia, citing, MOS, do's and don'ts.

I should probably talk about problems special to Sir William Talbot, 1st Baronet on the talk page of that article rather than here, but I thought that I would first talk to you and then discuss remaing disagreements (if any) on the article talk page.

Your edits on the article concern the additions of 4 citations and that of the infobox. The article had 20 citations before your intervention. They formed an established citation style, being all in the Shortened Footnotes style using Sfn. The 4 citations you added use ref tags enclosing a cite template. These are two valid but very different citation styles. Your edit comment states that you used Visual Editor. Perhaps this simply is what adding citations in Visiual Editor produces. If this is the case~, perhaps you would not mind if I change your citations to the established style? I might also do some other changes on them, please allow me to do so. I also wondered whether Infobox plitian is the best choice. I would probably have used Infobox noble. What do you thoink? Best regards, Johannes Schade (talk) 11:58, 18 February 2024 (UTC)


 * Hi Johannes, thanks for your kind words and for introducing yourself! I'm always keen to add citations where there are none.
 * Apologies for my inconsistencies in citing. I'm new to editing Wikipedia so I might not always be doing the references properly. Feel free to change the citation style where I have made a mistake. And yes, I primarily use the Visual Editor.
 * I wanted the Sir William Talbot, 1st Baronet infobox to be a combination of the "politician" and "baronetage" infoboxes (that makes the most sense to me). I know it's possible to combine infoboxes but I think it involves some "heavy lifting" in the Source Editor, so I went with the "politician" infobox for now. Again, please feel free to change it.
 * P.S. I definitely think the Sir William Talbot, 1st Baronet page could be stronger, regarding the citations. When I was adding citations to the Peter Talbot (bishop) page, I found that two sources disagreed on whether Peter was William's second or sixth son! But it seems that most sources believe he was the sixth son. SkywalkerEccleston (talk) 08:22, 19 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Dear SkywalkerEccleston, I made some edits to Sir William Talbot, 1st Baronet and give you some comments below:
 * - Infoboxes should not include citations. See MOS:INFOBOXCITE. They should be kept bref.
 * - Peter. I prefer to give the birth date as given by the more recent source. One cannot drop the circa. I removed the citation from Bagwell. The DIB seems to provide all that is needed. Also one should avoid large page ranges (327-329) in citations unless all these pages are needed to support the statement.
 * - Richard. Used the article in the Dictionary of Irish Biography (DIB) for the birth date and the position among his brothers as the yougest son.
 * - Eleanor. I added a citation from Cokayne
 * - Death. I removed citation Clavin.
 * - Sources. I corrected the references by updating to the latest stand of my data. The DIB shoulld be cited as Cit encyclopedia rather than Cite Web. Author should be named as they appear on the titlke page. Cokayne should therefore be cited as G. E. C.
 * Please tell me whether you want my collection of Irish 17th century (or mostly such) source descriptions. I hold them in a Word file that I could attach to an email to you. Thanks for your reply, until next time. So much to do. A pleasure to chat with you. Best regards, Johannes Schade (talk) 15:17, 19 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Thanks Johannes. I will let you know if I need the source descriptions. Kind Regards, SkywalkerEccleston (talk) 23:47, 19 February 2024 (UTC)

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February 2024
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James Butler, 9th Earl of Ormond
Dear SkywalkerEccleston, thank you for your attention to the article James Butler, 9th Earl of Ormond. Please do not take it badly when I criticise you. It may to a big part be caused by my lack of familiarity with Visual editor. From my first beginning I used Source editing and still do.

Your edit summary simply says "Tag: Visual edit". You should always provide a meaningful edit summary (see Help:Edit summary). It is not enough to indicate which editor you used. Perhaps you should have said "Improved infobox using Visual editor".

When I make an edit, I always ask myself whether my edit really improves Wikipedia. I find yours does not. You made two changes, both adding additional parameters to the Infobox, an empty CoA parameter and a birth_place parameter set to "Ireland". I do not see why unused parameters should be added, and I believe "Ireland" is too vague to be useful.

Dear SkywalkerEccleston I have the impression the fault mostly lies with Visual editor. Could you please explain to me how you came to make this edit? Please excuse my ignorance, I could not find where Visual editor offers functionality concerning the Infobox.

I feel you have probably acquired enough experience to move away from Visual editor. Sourc editing is perhaps a bit more demanding but much more flexible. I think most experienced users prefer it. With many thanks and best regards, Johannes Schade (talk) 10:28, 24 February 2024 (UTC)

About disambiguation pages
Hello! Just a reminder that when you create disambiguation pages, you should insert an introductory line, along with some other things depending on the subject. I've inserted one for you at Cathal O'Connor (disambiguation). Schrödinger's jellyfish &#9993; 17:43, 10 March 2024 (UTC)


 * Hi, sorry for not including the introductory line. I'll make sure to do that in future. Thank you SkywalkerEccleston (talk) 07:35, 13 March 2024 (UTC)
 * All good! Have a wonderful week, and thank you for creating these pages in the first place Schrödinger's jellyfish  &#9993; 07:36, 13 March 2024 (UTC)


 * Please also remember to follow the established set of rules for disambiguation pages, WP:MOSDAB. I've rearranged Cathal O'Connor to make it compliant. Thanks for working on disambiguation pages, but please read up on it first. Pam  D  08:57, 19 March 2024 (UTC)

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 * When you created this disambiguation page, you didn't add a hatnote to either of the articles, so no-one looking for either spelling would be alerted to the other one. As the dab page seems unnecessary, I've added hatnotes to each of the two articles it lists. If the dab page had been necessary, then there should have been a hatnote pointing to it at the "base name" article (in this case, the two articles). Without it, the dab page is unlikely to help any readers. Thanks. Pam  D  08:59, 19 March 2024 (UTC)

Owen Roe O'Neill
Dear SkywalkerEccleston thank you for your attention to the article Owen Roe O'Neill. You added the day and month to the subject's year of death in the article's lead. This full date already appeared in the infobox and in the section "Death and legacy" of the main content. Do you think it is really an improvement to add it in a third place? I would have thought that the lead is where the lifespan can be given with a lesser precision (years only) so that the main content und the infobox can elaborate on the lead. With best regards, Johannes Schade (talk) 08:33, 24 March 2024 (UTC)


 * Hi Johannes, you are probably right. Please revert it and thanks for bringing it to my attention SkywalkerEccleston (talk) 09:50, 24 March 2024 (UTC)

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CS1 error on Nuala O'Donnell
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 * Thank you Kerry! SkywalkerEccleston (talk) 04:50, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

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Hugh 'Gavelach' O'Donnell
Hi, Skywalker.

There is a factual error in the legacy version of the Iníon Dubh page you recently added some edits to. There does not appear to have been any Hugh 'Gavelach' O'Donnell. The man in question instead was Hugh Mac an Déagánaigh O'Donnell. More details, including links to relevant UCelt copies of AFM M1588.15 on her talk page.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:In%C3%ADon_Dubh

I'm kind of not super plugged in to Wikipedia protocols for making this kind of editing change, so I don't want to unintentionally trigger a flame war. Most of your edits seem to be mostly pretty well supported, but in this specific case the legacy version you started from is a little off. JackMason1 (talk) 08:38, 19 July 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for bringing this to my attention! I will address it on the Talk page.

SkywalkerEccleston (talk) 13:21, 19 July 2024 (UTC)

DYK for Peter Talbot (bishop)
Complex / Rational 00:03, 20 July 2024 (UTC)