Talk:Richard Fitzwilliams

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I met Richard many years ago when he was the dynamic editor of the International Who's Who. In my opinion, he was the best thing that ever happened to that publication. Under his guidance this publication went from strength to strength - entirely due to his efforts. Since then he has turned his not inconsiderable talents to being a PR Consultant, royal commentator and film critic - a unique blend of gifts Dziadzia (talk) 20:39, 26 August 2010 (UTC) D.Coltman MD Justaboutmanaging.com

Issues
The external links seem to be mostly his articles not articles about him thus leading to a lack of references. The tone of the article is very hagiographic. NtheP (talk) 22:01, 26 August 2010 (UTC)


 * Well, the primary author of the article points out above that Fitzwilliams has not inconsiderable talents, and that he has a unique blend of gifts. (Unlike WP's other biographees, with their inconsiderable talents and humdrum blends of gifts.) -- Hoary (talk) 11:53, 5 August 2011 (UTC)

International Who's Who
Much of this curious article is less about Fitzwilliams than about the International Who's Who. This section appears to be sourced, but I can't make head or tail of the sourcing, and for this reason I am very reluctant to shunt the section off to a new article on International Who's Who. However, if this material is worthwhile, this is what should be done with it. -- Hoary (talk) 11:53, 5 August 2011 (UTC)


 * No response, so I simply deleted this stuff. -- Hoary (talk) 12:06, 14 August 2011 (UTC)

Dead links
I looked in one section and found that a remarkable percentage of the links were dead. Here's what to do. Go to wayback.archive.org/web and there find the most recent good version, and then plug its URL in the place of the dead URL.

I'm not going to do this myself as it's clear that Fitzwilliams (of whom I had never heard until minutes ago) has at least one dedicated and energetic admirer, who surely has the energy to do this work. -- Hoary (talk) 11:53, 5 August 2011 (UTC)

promotional content
I have removed the long list of royal events covered, but left the references, which sufficiently give the details without their being repeated in the text. Ditto for the list of PR clients, which is promotional both you the subject, and for them. If these are restored, I shall probably follow Hoary's suggestion about deletion, because it will have been shown to be impossible for a non-promotional article to be written. (There would be an alternative open to me as an admin, which is to have User:Dziadzia blocked as an entirely promotional account; I have given a formal warning to that effect.)  DGG ( talk ) 16:17, 18 August 2011 (UTC)

Feel free to have this deleted
Dziadzia changes


 *  has lectured at the National Army Museum on war on screen. 

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 *  has lectured at the National Army Museum on war on screen. 

The string "fitzwilliams" appears nowhere in the page http://www.nam.ac.uk/

Even when the footnotes are not misleading, Dziadzia still refuses to format them properly, leaving others to do the work.

If I find on my return from vacation that in my absence DGG or somebody else has sent this to "Articles for deletion", I shan't be at all disappointed. -- Hoary (talk) 02:00, 28 August 2011 (UTC)

Looks like this guy needs a holiday.. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.155.229.128 (talk) 00:12, 8 September 2011 (UTC)