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Ireland Wikiproject

Welcome to the Ireland WikiProject. Hopefully you have a good time, start many new articles and can contribute lots to the existing ones as we need that. Cheers ww2censor (talk) 22:08, 30 July 2020 (UTC)

Thanks! Looking forward to spreading my knowledge, and improving various topics anywhere that I can. Thank you for having me. B. M. L. Peters (talk) 22:15, 30 July 2020 (UTC)

Favour

Hi, if you have time, can you check recent deletions to the Fianna Fail and Fine Gael articles? Thanks, Denisarona (talk) 10:07, 26 August 2020 (UTC)

Another editor was able to revert the revisions! They were not sourced and therefore able to be skewed by personal bias, thank you for bringing it to my attention and thanked the editor who reverted them as well! B. M. L. Peters (talk) 18:02, 26 August 2020 (UTC)

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Moved your name to WikiProject Anthropology/Participants

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IQ

How can your info-box say your IQ is below average. I say you goto iq-global-test.com and I bet your better than you realise. Govvy (talk) 10:44, 15 October 2021 (UTC)

Ideologies

Hi, I just wanted to send a quick message about ideologies and political positions in infoboxes. First I'm aware that I tend to oppose most of your suggested changes; I wanted to let you know that's nothing personal or anything, I can see you're trying to improve Misplaced Pages. Also thank you for proposing your changes on the talk page of articles first, that's always the best route.

The main reason I wanted to message you, though, was just to give a bit of friendly advice on how to approach ideologies. First, in general things like ideologies are often the subject of edit wars. Because of this it's usually best to keep infoboxes brief, to-the-point, and as neutral as possible. The more things with put in there, or the more we alter the ideologies, then the more likely it is that people with an agenda or with an axe to grind will be drawn to the article. I totally understand the desire to make sure everything's properly categorised or labelled -- after all, it's in human nature for us to organise everything -- but infoboxes are often prone to being overburdened with ideologies, which can cause other problems. We also have categories to try to make this easier, too.

The other thing to keep in mind is that it's usually best to keep it brief. The ideologies in an infobox really should be a definitive description of a party, regardless of who their leader is, or their recent policies, or particular wings of a party. For example, we wouldn't put libertarianism into the UKIP article, as that wing isn't representative of the whole party. Similarly, we didn't change Labour's position to be more left wing under Corbyn, as it was a temporary distraction for them. That's not to say you shouldn't be proposing changes, or that you're wrong to do so, or that we can't make changes. We absolutely can, but should probably do so sparingly and only really when there's an outright error.

Anyway, just thought I'd drop by in case this helps. See you around. — Czello 21:32, 26 October 2021 (UTC)

• Thanks for the info! I know its nothing against me, its just part of the process! I am relatively new to Misplaced Pages, only been editing for a couple of years, I understand most of the rules and regulations, but not everything. I understand we should keep the infoboxes minimal and simple, often times I remove ideologies that are repetitive, like for example, I removed "conservatism" from a party not too long ago because "national conservatism" was also listed, and no point in keeping the general term of conservatism if the type of conservatism is listed. Definitely understand what your saying, thanks for the advice! B. M. L. Peters (talk) 23:38, 26 October 2021 (UTC)

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LREM Article

Hi! Hope all's well. I noticed you were engaged in the issue of whether LREM is a centrist or centre-right party. We're currently having a discussion about this on the talk page for the article and I was wondering if you'd like to weigh in. Many thanks in advance and happy holidays. EndlessCoffee54 (talk) 19:05, 7 December 2021 (UTC)

Akane Yamaguchi

Hello. Help copy edit. Thanks you. Limpae (talk) 08:56, 15 December 2021 (UTC)