Talk:Ray D'Arcy

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There is no way Ray D'Arcy started out on Raidió na Gaeltachta!! He doesnt have a word of Irish...

-> He muttered something in Irish on the Rose of Tralee yesterday... something about the first Rose doing half of the work, in a typically goofy D'arcy move. Actually it would have been funny if the Rose tonight was determined not to let him past her, after all she was the famous rugby player.

encyclopedic?
Pat Kenny's paws, As far as I know APt Kenny is human and has hands. 86.43.110.186 (talk) 15:49, 14 February 2010 (UTC)

not encyclopedic: Orla mcadam incident
I have removed the Sentence re Orla McAdam, on grounds that it gives wp:NPOV to the opinion/feelings of a single non-notable person, even though it is well-referenced. I don't see how the input of an unsuccessful game-show contestant is relevant in an encyclopedic biography of a living person

Please give reasons here before reverting. (Jeoknowhat (talk) 12:11, 19 May 2010 (UTC))

Request for Comments
There is an RfC on the question of using "Religion: None" vs. "Religion: None (atheist)" in the infobox on this and other similar pages.

The RfC is at Template talk:Infobox person.

Please help us determine consensus on this issue. --Guy Macon (talk) 17:15, 23 April 2015 (UTC)

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Desolation of the Manual of Style
I made some edits to the Career section.

Previously, the Career section included the subheadings RTÉ: One, Today FM and RTÉ: Two. The subheading RTÉ: One was used to discuss his work on the channel "RTÉ One" but *ALSO* work on the channel "RTÉ Two", and on their radio stations, including "RTÉ Radio One". And then the section RTÉ: Two included more about his work on RTÉ One, and on Two, and also on radio. Just wildly unhelpful stuff. The sections were seemingly delineated by the period presenting his show on Today FM - even though his television work with RTÉ continued during that period, so they couldn't actually do that, and details in RTÉ: One overlapped with those in Today FM until 2008.

I moved things around to fit the subheadings Television and Radio, which is an easier way of thinking about his career than "Ray D'Arcy's television work for RTÉ Two during the post-Today FM period of his RTÉ: One phase" or however we were supposed to internalise those details.

All the rest of the page needs to be reworked too. Actually, it looks like every article about Irish broadcasting does, somehow they are ALL rife with really annoying news style journalese language, grammar, tensing etc etc etc, all in contradiction of the Manual of Style. Example: the "Today FM" section included the sentence "in July 2014, D'Arcy incurred the wrath of mixed martial arts fans by inviting Cathal Pendred onto his show then grilling him on his part in the "violent and disturbing" sport" in it - the sentence had a citation, but those words weren't even taken from it!

Also, I took this reference out completely: "in June 2008, D'Arcy was one of more than 1,200 people who stripped naked for a Spencer Tunick art project - he later spoke of the experience on the radio" - it *was* under the Today FM heading, even though it holds no relevance to his career there, and the citation provided didn't say he said anything on the radio - it just introduced him as a radio and television presenter and then provided a quote from him.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_is_not_a_newspaper

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Words_to_watch

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Writing_better_articles#Tone

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view

One cookie (talk) 15:14, 23 January 2024 (UTC)