Talk:Seán McCaughey

last person to die on hunger strike?
This claim appears to be refuted by the article on hunger strikes. I'm a newbie with no knowledge of Ireland -- I suggest someone verify this claim. Djdutch 14 September 2006


 * As the article states correctly, McCaughey was the last person to die on hunger strike in the Republic of Ireland. The 1981 hunger strikers died in prisons in Northern Ireland. There is a difference.--Damac 13:07, 14 September 2006 (UTC)


 * And then there was the Irish Free State?--85.164.223.189 (talk) 01:28, 20 December 2010 (UTC)

Protection
Isn't really warranted, except to protect it from pointy disruption from a wrestling fan. The background is as follows:

Burntsauce has raised the ire of members of the pro wrestling WikiProject by repeatedly stubbing unsourced bios of living people, examples

This has been widely discussed by the WikiProject and on administrators noticeboards - see here, here, here and here. Because I take it upon myself to rid Wikipedia of the hundreds of articles about non-notable wrestlers (which would also allow the project to focus their efforts on their more pressing sourcing problems) the project sees me as an enemy, in the same way as they do Burntsauce.

This IP editor made an edit to a wrestling article, then edits to Bloody Sunday (1972) and this article which I had edited earlier today. The IP editor even tried to issue me with a BLP warning, when the article makes it clear McCaughey died in 1946.

As can be seen by the edit summaries, they are the same as Burntsauce uses when he stubs wrestling articles, and this is nothing but some kind of juvenile disruptive revenge from a member of the wrestling WikiProject.

WP:A does not mean all material must be attributed to reliable sources, it clearly states it must be attributable which can easily be done with such a short article with two sources as external links. There is nothing in the policy that says inline citations must be used, in fact the policy explicitly states However, this policy should not be used to cause disruption by removing material for which reliable sources could easily or reasonably be found. I do normally use them on most articles, but there was no pressing need for them on such a short article, however I was planning to add them when I expand the article from books in my possession. Thanks. One Night In Hackney 303 13:36, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

Edit request
{editprotected} To appease the disruptive wrestling fan who doesn't understand policy, please change the "External links" section to "Sources". You could just unprotect the page at the same time too please. Thanks. One Night In Hackney 303  14:08, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
 * There you go, I suppose sources is prudent as external links doesn't definitely imply that you got your information from there. SGGH speak! 14:48, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I'll create an expanded version using other sources and including footnotes in the next couple of days, then hopefully the page can be unprotected. One Night In Hackney  303  14:56, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject class rating
This article was automatically assessed because at least one article was rated and this bot brought all the other ratings up to at least that level. BetacommandBot 04:20, 28 August 2007 (UTC)