Talk:Flann Sinna

message: My hat's off to ye, Angus .... well it would but someone stole it. Try to get this as a Featured articles; it deserves it. Is mise le meas mor, Fergananim 12:44, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Mac Leannáin Abu!

message: Just wondering! Fergananim 12:46, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Far too kind. Not that I know, mac Gille Fhaolain so I was told. It would need an enormous amount of work to be FA quality, but maybe it will get there some day. Cheers ! Angus McLellan  (Talk) 13:43, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  I dunno, this ain't that far away. All it needs is a little expansion, broader source use, inline citations and a run through Peer Review. Getting an article to featured status can be a lot about people just voting for it, but I don't see why after that anyone would object. Calgacus (ΚΑΛΓΑΚΟΣ) 13:57, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I've been going through the stubs about the medieval high kings, and translating some of them to norwegian. I have been rather disappointed about their quality. Then I arrived here: If you dig enough dirt, you'll find gold eventually! This is a very good article, my only concern is that it will take me a week or so to translate it ;-) Finnrind 00:37, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  ... Nó, Mac Giolla Fhinnéin Abu?

message: Sarah777's recent edit summary asked why full dates should be linked and years unlinked.  Full dates should be linked per WP:MOSDATE.  Linking years is, I believe, optional in MOS -- I can't find the right page at the moment but I think the rule is that each article makes this decision and it should not be changed without consensus on the talk page.  I don't think year links are worth it, myself, and evidently Angus doesn't either.  I assume the "years in Ireland" can't be used in full dates because of the requirement to link full dates in a standard way, but even if they can, I don't think they're useful, even if a couple weren't red links.  Picking a subset such as "in Ireland" is arbitrary: what about "848 among the Uí Néill" or "848 in the British Isles" or "848 in Western Europe"?  An interested reader is more likely to work through a history article and perhaps a timeline article.   I think linked years are low-value.  Mike Christie (talk) 13:32, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: For the full dates, Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)#Do not use piped links for date elements that cause date formatting problems says what you'd expect, based on the heading: Do not pipe links to date elements that contain a month and a day e.g. 20 or June 20 or 20 June 1997. Such piped links break the date formatting function. For years, I don't have any view one way or the other as a general rule. Here we've already got a timeline in the article and there is likely more info here than in the respective year-in-Ireland articles. Angus McLellan  (Talk) 13:50, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Date links 

message: Flann for Érinn is at least mentioned in Carey's "Lebor Gabála and the legendary history of Ireland" in Fulton (ed.) Medieval Celtic literature and society. The NLS has a copy. Angus McLellan  (Talk) 18:13, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  More info on ''Flann for Érinn''