User talk:Mendor

Hello, Mendor. Welcome to Wikipedia.

A few tips for you to start going. (I'll send more if I see that I can help you :-)

Just edit stuff off the cuff for a while. We like that fine!
When you have time, check out Wikipedia:Welcome, newcomers + the links in there.
You can sign your stuff on talk pages with ~~~~ It will convert to your username + the time. "anon" is fine too.
If puzzled, put a question on Wikipedia:Village pump, or feel free to ask me on my talk page if it's a very general question.
Most of all, have fun but take our work seriously!

-- Cimon Avaro on a pogo-stick 11:33 11 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Ciamar a tha thu?

I thought you'd enjoy the Wikimedia Babel "template" on my talk page -- it was inspired by yours. OtherDave 17:20, August 17, 2005 (UTC)

feasgar mhath!

Came across your userpage while browsing wiki. I was amazed to see that we shared a few userboxes! (Saurabhb 20:16, 24 January 2006 (UTC))[reply]

Pages listed on Categories for deletion[edit]

Discussion on CFD - proposal to merge all subcats of Category:Members of the United Kingdom Parliament from Scottish constituencies up into the main cat. Relevant categories which would be deleted are:

I think that this is a rather important discussion for editors interested in Scotland-related articles, especially Scottish politics and Scottish biographical articles (particularly local history). Please have a read and ponder, and contribute to the debate if you like. Thanks. --Mais oui! 17:39, 23 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It would also be relevant in this context to consider the discussions in the parent category for the UK parliament: Category talk:British MPs. I find it regrettable that Mais oui! has engaged in a restructuring of that category without entering into the discussions there. --BrownHairedGirl 17:56, 23 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Categories_for_deletion/Log/2006_July_23#Category:Members_of_the_United_Kingdom_Parliament_from_Scottish_constituencies is just about to close. I would really appreciate your contribution, because this debate needs some serious input. --Mais oui! 09:44, 31 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:WikiProject Scotland[edit]

Pre-script: we are currently undergoing peer review, see: Wikipedia:Peer review/Scotland.

I am beginning to think that the Scottish Wikipedians' notice board is not the best vehicle for pushing up the quality of the Scotland article (we ought to try to get it to WP:FA, in order to get into Wikipedia:Version 0.5, or, failing that, Wikipedia:Version 1.0), and the other key Scottish articles. It is becoming increasingly obvious to me that we really ought to start up the long-mooted WikiProject Scotland.

Most of the stuff at the notice board (at least on the bottom half) is actually WikiProject material anyway, and the Talk page is really being used as a WikiProject talk already! The notice board should be just that: for bunging up brief notices and signposts. I am thinking of launching a Wikiproject and correspondingly radically clearing out, and chopping down, the noticeboard (a re-launch if you like). The Scotland Portal concept is fine (but currently mediocre/undynamic content), but in stasis: it needs a good kick up the jacksie.

For comparison, have a look at:

And, if you are at a loose end, have a look at:

Thoughts? Please express them here. --Mais oui! 18:31, 6 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:WikiProject Scotland[edit]

Following a successful period of consultation WikiProject Scotland has now been launched. As a participant in the Scottish Wikipedians' notice board I wonder if you may be interested in this new endeavour too? If so, please sign-up here. The WikiProject will be replacing some of the functions of the notice board, especially those in the lower half.

While I am here, please also have a look at the new Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Scotland and give it a "Watch". It was started up by User:Visviva a few days ago, after long being mooted at the notice board, and effectively replaces all the AfD listings at the notice board. Being a transclusion of all the on-going discussions it is a much more useful tool.

Even if you do not want to spend too much time on the WikiProject, please give it a "Watch" and feel free to contribute to Talk page discussions: the more contributors the merrier.

All the best. --Mais oui! 10:48, 5 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

User:AlexNewArtBot[edit]

Hi Mendor, as a WikiProject Scotland participant, please check out this this thread and consider adding the bot results page to your watchlist so we can manually update the New Articles page. There are some false results for the first batch, but I'm sure we can collectively tune the rules to improve the output.

If we get enough people watching the results page, we'll be cooking with gas as they say :) This looks like a great helper in finding new Scotland related material. Cheers. --Cactus.man ✍ 01:39, 17 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Per Wikipedia:User categories for discussion#Scottish English categories[edit]

I changed the userbox on your userpage per the discussion. If you have any questions, please feel free to leave a message on my talk page. Taric25 12:23, 2 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Newspaper article[edit]

Hi, have you spotted this yet?

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--Mais oui! (talk) 09:09, 24 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Please help - I have been blocked at sco:[edit]

I have recently been looking over my global status to find, to my amazement, that I had been blocked at sco: by User:Bazza. I cannot contact them there, however, as my block prevents me from editing pages, and so I thought it best to ask another sco: admin over at w: for help. I feel that User:Bazza's comments that I have been "inserting nonsense" into pages are entirely unfounded, as my only two edits to sco: have been to replace PNGs (of rather bad quality, incidentally) with SVGs of better quality. I would be very grateful if you could review my block over at sco: and either lift it or inform me why my edits were considered inappropriate. Thanks in advance. It Is Me Here (talk) 20:42, 16 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Bugger, sorry about that. For a long time we've had way more spammers than users on sco: and it was easy enough to shoot first and ask questions later. I think it's about time I revised that policy! Again, sorry... Bazza1971 (talk) 09:03, 17 September 2008 (UTC) (sco:User:Bazza)[reply]

AfD nomination of Scottish Enterprise Party[edit]

An editor has nominated one or more articles which you have created or worked on, for deletion. The nominated article is Scottish Enterprise Party. We appreciate your contributions, but the nominator doesn't believe that the article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion and has explained why in his/her nomination (see also "What Wikipedia is not").

Your opinions on whether the article meets inclusion criteria and what should be done with the article are welcome; please participate in the discussion(s) by adding your comments to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Scottish Enterprise Party. Please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~).

You may also edit the article during the discussion to improve it but should not remove the articles for deletion template from the top of the article; such removal will not end the deletion debate.

Please note: This is an automatic notification by a bot. I have nothing to do with this article or the deletion nomination, and can't do anything about it. --Erwin85Bot (talk) 01:26, 27 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

ArbCom elections are now open![edit]

Hi,
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