Hi, I was wondering if you'd be interested in creating a few lists for Template:Lists of churches in Scotland by council area? I've started a basic one for Highland. Eventually it would be good to have detailed tabled lists by sub area with pretty pictures! It's a huge task though but worth starting.♦ Dr. Blofeld 20:05, 14 December 2014 (UTC)
Hi, I see your comment at the nationality discussion at the Village Pump. Did ye ken that the originator of that is edit warring at James Clerk Maxwell? The discussion started there. 71.228.66.131 ( talk) 18:39, 21 December 2014 (UTC)
Hello, Ben MacDui -- Happy holidays to you! I just thought you might be able to address the concerns of two different editors at Talk:Saxons#Sassenach - What was it before 1771? and the comment right before it. CorinneSD ( talk) 20:58, 24 December 2014 (UTC)
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which will result in a 197 character long signature with an appearance of: Ben Mac Duicompared to your existing 179 character long signature of: Ben Mac Dui — Either way. Happy editing! Darylgolden( talk) 09:48, 1 January 2015 (UTC)
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Hello, Ben MacDui! I hope you are well – haven't seen many edits from you in a while. Do you agree with this edit to Haakon Sigurdsson? [1] CorinneSD ( talk) 22:57, 4 April 2015 (UTC)
I am well - and thank-you for asking. You are right that I have been absent of late: a combination of a busy life off-wiki and ennui with the daily grind of fending off the ill-informed on-wiki. Re Haakon, I have become very tolerant of varied orthographies - the Rulers of the Kingdom of the Isles is almost impossible to make consistent and I have toyed with the idea of listing everyone with English, Norse, Gaelic and Latin names just for the hell of it. I have no doubt that the edit you mention will annoy Norse enthusiasts and modern scholars alike, but I can't think of any wiki-policy to contest it. "You say Yrric, I say Eiríkr, (let's call the whole thing off)..." Ben Mac Dui
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Please respond at Wikipedia talk:Unreviewed featured articles/sandbox#Pinging next round; thanks! SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 18:52, 3 May 2015 (UTC)
Hi. Some time ago you suggested adding in the High Pasture Cave lyre find to Prehistoric art in Scotland. I am a bit confused about the date of this artefact. The only sources I can get to online seem to suggest a date of 2000 BCE or more, but you changed the date on the High Pasture Cave article to 300 BCE. Do you have access to a source that indicates that it has been carbon dated? I also suppose if it dates from only 300 BCE it is not as significant. I hope you can clarify. All the best.-- SabreBD ( talk) 11:16, 6 May 2015 (UTC)
See User_talk:Anthony_Appleyard#Mull re recent page moves. Pam D 08:59, 25 May 2015 (UTC)
I was looking at this edit to Saxons [2], and, wondering why the phrase had been de-linked, I typed it into the search box. It led to a "Did you mean...?" page with a different spelling. Is this a spelling error or a different term entirely? If there is an article to which this can be linked, it would be nice to create the correct link. CorinneSD ( talk) 01:03, 5 June 2015 (UTC)
Hey, MacDui, I hope all is well and you're enjoying your semi-retirement? Selfishly, I miss having you around! I have just pinged you at the FAC for Nuckelavee but I noticed somewhere you said to leave a message on your talk page, so here I am! SagaciousPhil - Chat 10:00, 27 June 2015 (UTC)
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Hello, Ben MacDui! I hope you will visit your talk page now and then and continue occasionally to make edits. I'd like to ask you for your opinion. I was looking at the article on Killua Castle, and I made a few minor copy-edits to the captions. Then I really looked at the second image in the article, showing Killua Castle in the distance with what looks like scaffolding around it. I'm wondering whether this image should just be deleted. It doesn't show the castle clearly, and the image just above it is a very nice photo of the castle. Corinne ( talk) 22:50, 29 August 2015 (UTC)
Hi MacDui, What is the latest thinking on these Disamg. pages regarding citations. I see a lot of these types of dis page in the New Page Feed and it reports on the generated page, that it has no No Citations, yet the Metadata Info page reports that the page is fine no problem. {[Chacon|Chacon]] is a classic example. Do these pages normally need to have citation or is it some bad reporting bug? I know you love that IT!! lol. scope_creep ( talk 08:52, 19 September 2015 (UTC)
WP:DAB is quite clear: "Do not include references in disambiguation pages." There are no exceptions as such although 'set index' articles (e.g. Category:Scottish Island set index articles) are a sort of special dab page that allow for discussion and refs. I know nothing of 'Metadata Info page reports' I'm afraid. Ben Mac Dui 09:07, 19 September 2015 (UTC)
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Hi Ben, thought this might interest you, see the bottom of Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Wales. If you see the content for WP:Atdrag at the bottom, the idea would be to get that coming in from each of the nations, including Scotland and an overall winner. Feel free to comment on the Wales page if you see potential, cheers.♦ Dr. Blofeld 08:26, 6 April 2016 (UTC)
Hi Ben, several months ago I saw a WP drive to list all those external resources, like magazines, news databases, other digital libraries, JSTOR etc, and the mechanism to request access those resources by WP editors. It was a fairly big list by the time everybody added their entries for their own particular interests. I was looking for it on WP, and can't seem to locate it. I want to get access to a couple of places, and Cryptologia magazine particularly and a logic mag, which may be in JSTOR, I don't know. Do you have any idea where I can find it. scope_creep 12:36, 19 May 2016 (UTC)
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I've moved my quote to a new "Other" section at the end of the page Brookie :) { - like the mist - there one moment and then gone!} (Whisper...) 16:20, 5 October 2016 (UTC)
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Hi Ben, I seem to have lost the New Page Patroller/New Page Reviewer permission and I can no longer review new pages. I wasn't informed the permission was removed, there was no announcement or email, which was bit shabby. I noticed it today. It seems to have happened several weeks ago without me noticing it. Can you find out why it's been removed and if possible get it restored. I really enjoy doing it. scope_creep ( talk) 17:34, 5 December 2016 (UTC)
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