User talk:Simoncursitor
Hello and welcome to Cunnan,
Good work on what you've been working on so far, we normally start by encouraging new users to make edits but you've beaten us to it. Feel free to edit your user page to tell us about yourself and link to any other websites you're involved in.
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Kingdom of Alvia
Since you added it to Other re-enactment sites, could you explain what exactly Alvia is coz the homepage confuses me. Is it a fictional kingdom played within Far Isles or is it a breakaway group from Far Isles? - Cian Gillebhrath
- Alvia as such never existed, and, in due course, will come off here. It was "invented" as a Far Isles plot device. I offered to flesh it out, did so, and found that the people who'd started it had forgotten saying I could, and thought someone had run with the idea and founded it. However, the FI have stuck with it and (for those who don't know the *truth*) I don't want to spoil the illusion that it might be Out There Somewhere. It's here short-term simply for that reason (and because I built the p*gg*ng web-site and I'm proud(-ish) of it. Thank you for bothering to look at it. It will also die eventually, but I have three more heraldic devices to put on, and several Guilds yet to do. Not to mention possibly the Return of Wicked!Alix and her Dupe-Princess!Ysabeau.
- --Simoncursitor 18:42, 4 Nov 2004 (EST)
Some really beautiful writing about english monachs. thankyouTiff 08:22, 5 Jan 2005 (CST)
"post-racialist Uk PoV"? Your additions are good and in-depth, so what is a "post-racialist"? Are you meaning a modern Brit having a Roman PoV in the timeline of the "post-Roman Empire"? - Cian Gillebhrath No, merely writing as someone whose ancestors were probably at least indirectly responsible for the annihilation of African civilization. We will certainly have benefited from it, given that without it there would be no British Empire, just a muddy island occasionally conquered by the French.
User Status
You have just been upgraded to sysop level. As you did not ask for this you will be relieved to know that this status comes with no obligations. It does however allow you to do a number of things such as edit the Main Page, and block spammers. To block spammers go to the Recent Changes page, where the block option will come up for any user that has not logged in (ie, they are an IP address). If they have logged in, you can block them by going to Special pages, scrolling to the bottom, clicking on Block User and typing in their name.
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If you have any further questions, just put them up here. In part this is our way of saying both that we trust you, and we appreciate your efforts on the wiki. Conrad Leviston 08:54, 27 May 2005 (CDT)
- Thank you -- I will endeavour to live up to the high standards you have set. I hope you don't mind if I exercise this, later this week, by just slotting in the Scottish kings onto the Main Page, so that I can get to them quicker, for edits. May I say that Cunnan has fast become one of my favourite sites to visit and to contribute to, because of the peaceful and scholarly atmosphere -- something which I sometimes miss in Real Life, let alone on the World Wide Weirdness.
--Simoncursitor 04:40, 30 May 2005 (CDT)
the mango issue
In solidarity with your decision to delete the spurious mango page, I have researched and written a little blurb about the period relevance of mangos. --Elyas 17:05, 14 Jun 2005 (CDT)
Thank you. I'm pleased everything has "worked out". --Simoncursitor 02:06, 15 Jun 2005 (CDT)
England
I have edited the England page with a view to creating links useful to those with English personae. With this in mind I have attempted to create pages for distinct eras, e.g. Anglo-Saxon England. I am not totally happy with the way that I have grouped the eras (I think an Angevin England page might be a good idea), but my English history is not good enough for me to do this with any confidence. Could you take a look at it for me and group the eras into what you think is useful from a cultural point of view?
not my question, but I'm not convinced by your middle eras. I guess i think more in terms of archeology than history. 1066 is a clear change, but changes such as gaining anjevin kings didn't really change the overall society.
- perhaps: Roman England/brittain, Anglo saxon england, anglo-norman england, medieval england
Weather medeival england starts in 1155 or sometime later, is a bit to argue. Tiff 02:44, 23 Jun 2005 (CDT)
