User talk:Denis Cavanagh

Tasks: start a new article • add basic, wanted or requested articles • add definitions • add metadata • edit new pages

Welcome to the Citizendium! We hope you will contribute boldly and well. Here are pointers for a quick start, and see Getting Started for other helpful "startup" links, our help system and CZ:Home for the top menu of community pages. You can test out editing in the sandbox if you'd like. If you need help to get going, the forum is one option. That's also where we discuss policy and proposals. You can ask any user or the editors for help, too. Just put a note on their "talk" page. Again, welcome and have fun! --Larry Sanger 03:51, 20 July 2007 (CDT)

Fast at work!

Hi Denis, good to see you working hard! Before you get too many articles started, let me introduce you to CZ:The Article Checklist. This needs to be added to the talk page of each of your articles so that it does not get deleted. Let me know if you have any questions. --Matt Innis (Talk) 10:02, 20 July 2007 (CDT) Constable

Welcome

Another Irish author! Welcome, and best of luck. Regards, Anton Sweeney 08:35, 24 July 2007 (CDT)

Write-a-thon

Hi Denis. I don't know if you're aware of Citizendium's first CZ:Monthly_Write-a-Thon, which takes place today, but your new articles entitle you to sign up to the party :-) Anton Sweeney 10:36, 1 August 2007 (CDT)

Image help

For the complete run-down on images, see Help:Images. For most of it in brief, see Special:Upload. Let me know if you need further help or if this help is insufficient and I will walk you though it step-by-step.  —Stephen Ewen (Talk) 03:34, 2 August 2007 (CDT)

Irish-related articles

Hi Denis. As you may have noticed, Citizendium does not generally use categories in the same way as other wikis. Where they are used, it is generally for admin - e.g., CZ live articles, disambiguation and workgroups. Unfortunately, at the moment, that means there's no really easy way to spot related articles, e.g., Irish-related articles. This should hopefully change in the future, when Area Studies workgroups should be created, including on a country level. In the meantime, you might want to add appropriate articles to the 'See Also' section of Ireland. I've taken the liberty of adding Kingdom of Oriel there. Regards, Anton Sweeney 09:29, 8 August 2007 (CDT)

Actually, I've just changed the category on the Checklist of the article from 'Developed' to 'External' - it does require three substantial changes from the external version before it can be marked as being in category 0 to 3. Feel free to change it back to Developed when you've had some time to edit it. Regards, Anton Sweeney 09:54, 8 August 2007 (CDT)

Article of the Week

Hey Denis, I'm glad to see someone else has signed up to be an Admin for the Article of the Week program! I'm not sure how much there is for us to do yet, but I hope we can help this program grow. One thing that I just started is CZ:New Article of the Week based on some talk on the AotW talk page and the forums. I was looking for some initial articles to nominate, and one I was considering was actually your Kingdom of Oriel article. As soon as it's changed a little more from the Wikipedia article I plan on nominating it. Carl Jantzen 09:41, 8 August 2007 (CDT)

Edward I looks excellent; I added it to the nomination list. Carl Jantzen 09:50, 8 August 2007 (CDT)

That's what makes it New Article of the Week material. Otherwise we'd have to nominate it for (Old) Article of the Week. :) Carl Jantzen 09:55, 8 August 2007 (CDT)

Hi Denis,

Saw you had linked the Battle of Evesham. Ta. Let me know what on-line sources you have for future references. I will continue to work on related articles. --Thomas Simmons 05:43, 9 August 2007 (CDT)

And by the way, could you link your user page to articles you write. I can keep tabs on what you are doing in the history workgroup and look for more material to support your efforts. --Thomas Simmons 05:45, 9 August 2007 (CDT)

Éamon de Valera

Hey. Not going to get anything done on this tonight... :-( What I'll try to do is get some background stuff together and aim to kick it off, work allowing, on Wednesday morning, during the new CZ:Weekly Wiki. Hopefully that will attract some other editors in. By the way - that's a lot of new articles you've started - good job! Regards, Anton Sweeney 13:08, 12 August 2007 (CDT)

Cool, I'll add my two cents at some stage! I usually spend a lot of time online here at work (I'm working in the Civil Service for the Summer) And as you may have assumed, the Department of Agriculture doesn;t provide much work for me to do! Denis Cavanagh 14:45, 12 August 2007 (CDT)

Michael Collins

Kicked off a page on "the Big Fella" - feel free to rip asunder, rearrange expand and generally kick into shape!

Oh, just to note - when you're adding a checklist to articles, the "abc" field is done surname first - so it'd be "abc= Collins, Michael" not "abc= Michael Collins". Regards, Anton Sweeney 06:14, 16 August 2007 (CDT)

He's looking okay for a stub. Good to see him up and going though! Denis Cavanagh 06:21, 16 August 2007 (CDT)

Eamon de Valera

I put up a picture there. The library of Congress says it's "E. de Valera", can you verify whether it really look like Eamon de Valera or another E. de Valera? Thanks! Yi Zhe Wu 14:19, 16 August 2007 (CDT)

It looks like a very young Éamon, but I'm pretty sure its him. Denis Cavanagh 14:21, 16 August 2007 (CDT)

Edward I

Edward I was approved this morning - congrats :-) Anton Sweeney 04:53, 19 August 2007 (CDT)

Ahh, very good :-) Denis Cavanagh 10:16, 19 August 2007 (CDT)

Main page

I agree with your point about the main page. As it stood, it read like a Bushism i.e. trying to connect to regular folk but failing abysmally. I went ahead and changed it. Feel free to change it to something more appropriate. Chris Day (talk) 09:57, 21 August 2007 (CDT)

Thanks Chris. I don't really know what to put there, but 'everyone is welcome' seems ok. Denis Cavanagh 10:00, 21 August 2007 (CDT)

Trip to Ireland

Hi Denis, we may disagree about how the main page comes across, but we no doubt share a love of Ireland, and so it wasn't hard to persuade me to come and talk in Dublin--I'll be there at the end of September to speak to the Institute of European Affairs. --Larry Sanger 08:52, 23 August 2007 (CDT)