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Hello Maxburgoyne! Welcome to Misplaced Pages! Thank you for your contributions. You may benefit from following some of the links below, which will help you get the most out of Misplaced Pages. If you have any questions you can ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or by typing four tildes "~~~~"; this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you are already loving Misplaced Pages you might want to consider being "adopted" by a more experienced editor or joining a WikiProject to collaborate with others in creating and improving articles of your interest. Click here for a directory of all the WikiProjects. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Happy editing! LittleOldMe 10:44, 23 January 2007 (UTC) Getting Started Misplaced Pages Tutorial • The five pillars of Misplaced Pages How to: edit a page • upload an image Getting Help Frequently Asked Questions Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Policies and Guidelines Neutral point of view • Reliable sources Verifiability • Citing sources • No original research What Misplaced Pages is not • Biographies of living persons Manual of Style • Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry Copyrights • Fair use • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The Community Community Portal • Adopt-a-user program Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • Resolving disputes Build consensus • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Things to do Be bold in editing • Help develop an article Pages needing attention • Peer review Join a WikiProject • Translating articles Cleaning up: General • Spam • Vandalism Miscellaneous Categories • Disambiguity • Stubs User pages • Talk pages Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

Stubs

When creating short articles that don't fully cover the subject you can mark them as stubs. You can do this using the template {{stub}}. Since you have a good knowledge of what you are writing about it is better to use a specific stub, e.g. if its a UK road use {{UK-road-stub}}. To find the right stub there is a list at WP:WSS/ST. Ksbrown 09:33, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Unspecified source for Image:Irish Ranger.jpg

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Royal Irish Rangers

Your reversion was so far-reaching that it re-introduced many factual inaccuracies. If you want to amend then you do, of course, have the right but please make small amendments that you can justify. I served in 2 R IRISH for 8 years. You, I note, are Canadian. It is unlikely that, in this one small regard, you are beter informed than me . --MJB 06:51, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

Please reinstate your changes, sans the lyrics; this was my mistake. Can't sleep, clown will eat me 06:54, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

Killaloe

The page looks much better - thanks for your help (although I still think 'popular' should be in there!) ;-) --hydeblake 09:54, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

Wow - the new lyrics make the whole page look so much better - and are absolutely fascinating! Cracking stuff - thanks! --hydeblake 10:36, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

River Teme

Is it you who has been asking for more details of the sources on navigability? If so, please contact me at Peter@peterkingiron.freeserve.co.uk. Peterkingiron 20:43, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

RE: MPs

Westminster appears to disagree gaillimh 21:30, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject The Apprentice UK

Hello, Maxburgoyne and thank you for your contributions on articles related to The Apprentice UK. I'd like to invite you to become a part of WikiProject The Apprentice UK, a WikiProject aiming to improve coverage of The Apprentice UK and related articles on Misplaced Pages. If you would like to help out and participate, please come over and visit us here for more information. Thanks! Dalejenkins 09:40, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

Get real - I was intervening to prune the article not exapnd it! --MJB 19:49, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

Apostrophes

Hi Maxburgoyne!

Recently, I removed an incorrect apostrophe from Royal Irish Rangers. You've restored the apostrophe, with an edit summary of "reinstating possessive apostrophe". This is not correct. It's means "it is" or "it has". It's never means "belonging to it". Its means "belonging to it". You can read more here or here (from Purdue University). Please be careful to proofread your work when editing Misplaced Pages, and please do not "correct" grammar to an incorrect version. Best wishes and happy editing, Firsfron of Ronchester 17:40, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

PoW status

Have you not been keeping up to speed on this discussion, "PoW status cannot and did not apply to the IRA, " Under British law Reliable neutral sourcethey were considered POW’s. When did the British Army stop acting and engaging the IRA as an Army. The answer is never! Only now released under the Freedom of Information Act. http://www.patfinucanecentre.org/misc/opbanner.pdf . IRA prisoners were POW. Article 5 of the GCIII states that the status of detainee may be determined by a "competent tribunal". Until such time, he is to be treated as a prisoner of war. So for those who did not get designated with SCS - then I would like to see the reference for their "competent tribunal" - otherwise they are assumed to be POW's especially if POW status is claimed. Have you got the idea now?--Domer48 18:53, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

Sorry about the tone, just copied it stright from the discussion page. Where it gets a little heated. Sorrry again about that. regards--Domer48 19:13, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

Just to keep you up to speed, this is the next point I will be making.

Geneva Convention

4.1.3 Members of regular armed forces who profess allegiance to a government or an authority not recognized by the Detaining Power.

The IRA Army Council became the legitimate government of the Irish Republic in 1938 (a government "not recognized by the Detaining Power") and the Provisionals were appointed as the legitimate successors to the 1938 Army Council by Tom Maguire in 1970. All members of the IRA were therefore members of a legitimate army, and entitled to POW status under the Geneva Convention. Just in case you would like to join the discussion. Regards--Domer48 19:52, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

Katie Hopkins AfD

Hello, just noticed that you failed to cite if you were supporting the Katie Hopkins article to pass of fail its AfD. Please could you pop over to that page and edit it to show your view, or place "Comment" at the beggining if you have no viewpoint.

Thanks very much, and I'm sorry if this sounds petty. :D Dalejenkins 19:35, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

Image tagging for Image:Knighton Railstn.JPG

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Sounds Reasonable

Hi Maxburgoyne, on your reversion on the Bobby Sands page, I would remind you that Jesus Christ was a convicted criminal, who offered up His life. Should we include that category "convicted criminals who committed suicide," on His Article? Could He also have prevented His Own death? Dose that sound reasonable? --Domer48 14:05, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

Bobby Sands

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war. Note that the three-revert rule prohibits making more than three reversions in a content dispute within a 24 hour period. Additionally, users who perform a large number of reversions in content disputes may be blocked for edit warring, even if they do not technically violate the three-revert rule. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing. Please do not repeatedly revert edits, but use the talk page to work towards wording and content which gains a consensus among editors. --John 19:12, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

Bobby Sands 2

Please remain civil. I am more than willing to engage in intelligent debate with you, but there is no need for you to make such comments. Thank you. Brixton Busters 08:29, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

Referencing

Max, can you please reference information properly in the articles you contribute to. No example here is a reference that I have added to an article - <ref>{{cite web | author= | title="Lewis signs up for showdown with Holyfield in Vegas" | work=] | url=http://www.independent.ie/sport/lewis-signs-up-for-showdown-with-holyfield-in-vegas-459902.html | accessdaymonth=13 May | accessyear=2007 }}</ref>. If you could follow that format it makes things a lot easier for other editors, otherwise it appears that your articles are unsourced.--Vintagekits 13:19, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

You are still not referencing articles correct. You have been politely asked to, if you do not correctly reference articles then you are just making more work for yourself and everyone else in the long run.--Vintagekits 13:36, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

not a bad attempt I must say its getting better - but if you use the format I have provided then you will see that that works much better.--Vintagekits 13:39, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

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