Caracal Rooikat

Nomination of 1 Special Training Unit for deletion

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Charsaddian (talk) 20:20, 19 July 2023 (UTC)

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Your draft article, Draft:Raymond Chomel

Hello, Caracal Rooikat. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Raymond Chomel".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been deleted. When you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 22:10, 26 December 2023 (UTC)

Disambiguation link notification for February 1

An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Clan MacPhail, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Croy.

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An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Clan MacPhail, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Erse.

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Clan Chattan article no page numbers Tag

Hi, I have added a Tag to the top of the Clan Chattan article because all of the book references you have added do not have page numbers. It is important to add page numbers not only to keep the article to a good standard but so that readers can verify the information in the books being quoted. This is what Wikipedia is about. Thank you. QuintusPetillius (talk) 19:28, 14 April 2024 (UTC)

Hi Mentor. In a ideal world that would be brilliant, however some sources comes with different page numbers, for example if you compare electronic or print versions of the same information. Similarly if you compare the same source information but housed in different university archives. Where possible I cite the page as well. Thank you for your kind advice. Caracal Rooikat (talk) 09:16, 15 April 2024 (UTC)

Your note on my talk page

Just wanted to drop a quick line to second the reply from @Lunar-akaunto that the most probably explanation is that editing on the page is restricted to auto-confirmed users. You will need to be logged in to your account to edit there. Sorry for the inconvenience. Also as a friendly FYI, please do not publicly reveal the IP address you are editing from as this can be used by persons with malicious intent. For your safety I am going to revdel your message on my talk page so it will not be visible. Best regards... -Ad Orientem (talk) 14:26, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

Thank you! Caracal Rooikat (talk) 07:44, 6 June 2024 (UTC)

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Copyright problem on Clan MacInnes

The content I removed is actually from this website, where it has been present since at least 2001 according to the Wayback Machine. So we can't keep it; it's copyright. Sorry, — Diannaa (talk) 12:17, 9 July 2024 (UTC)

Hi Diana

No I went to the original source material, a book on Scots Clans from the 1800s. Scots Electric must have also source it form there. Please look at the reference I gave and revert. Caracal Rooikat (talk) 12:21, 9 July 2024 (UTC)

Hi Diana

No I still do not agree with what you just did. The Book is more than 120 year old, You removed referenced paragraphs without checking: Please revert:

The Highland CLANS of Scotland: Their History and "Traditions. By George Eyre-Todd With an Introduction by A. M. Mackintosh with one hundred and twenty two illustrations, including reproductions and celebrated paintings of the paintings and costumes of the clans volume 2 A D. Appleton and Company New York MCMXXIII

I am still currently investigating. Please stop editing the article while I do so. I am trying to figure out the best way to reintroduce the removed material and how much revision deletion I should undo. Thanks. — Diannaa (talk) 12:30, 9 July 2024 (UTC)

I have restored the material. Sorry for the mistake. In the future, please add attribution when copying from public domain sources: simply add the template {{source-attribution}} after your citation. I have done so for this article. Please do this in the future so that our readers will be aware that you copied the prose rather than wrote it yourself, and that it's okay to copy verbatim. Since so much content has been copied and re-copied all over the Internet, it's also very useful to patrollers such as myself and helps prevent mistakes such as mine.

Also, we will need a citation for each paragraph so people can tell what's copied from where. I have given names to the citation to make it easy for you to do that. — Diannaa (talk) 12:52, 9 July 2024 (UTC)

Thank you Diannaa, always nice to learn from a pro.

Kind regards Caracal Rooikat (talk) 15:52, 9 July 2024 (UTC)