Talk:Thomas D'Arcy McGee

Ethnicity
In several photos of McGee, he doesn't look completely Celtic/Anglo-Saxon. Does anyone know if he had any other ethnicity in him? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.1.19.72 (talk) 20:14, 16 March 2013 (UTC)


 * Looks perfectly celtic to me.216.252.77.112 (talk) 22:39, 6 March 2015 (UTC)

Untitled
"His was the first murder in the newly formed Dominion of Canada's short history".

In a country of 3.5 million people, including both good-sized cities and lawless frontiers, I find it hard to believe that the country's first murder was nine months after the BNA Act. Citation? Demonstah (talk) 00:25, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

I agree.. it's dubious —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.71.193.218 (talk) 15:08, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

Sinn Féin
I removed part of a sentence which claimed that the Fenians were "forerunners for Sinn Féin". Nowhere in the articles Sinn Féin or History of Sinn Féin are the Fenians mentioned and no citation for that claim is given in this article.

Hanleywashington (talk) 16:51, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

Please double-check the facts added by IP
Please double-check edit. I have no knowledge whatsoever; this piece text was subject of vandalism recently, so I decided to trace its origin, just in case. Staszek Lem (talk) 03:26, 4 November 2015 (UTC)

Can we list someone in a category that has no mention in the article?
Concerning the two categories: "Irish lawyers" and "Canadian lawyers" that have been added to the article. Is it permissible to have a category that relates to something that has no mention in the article? I would have thought that if the subject matter of the category isn't mentioned in the article, then there is no basis for including that category. I've skimmed and searched the article and don't see any mention in the article that McGee was called to the bar in either British North America or Ireland, so I don't see how we can justify having those categories. has provided one source that states he was called to the bar in Lower Canada. If that were included in the article as a reliable source, then yes, we could categorise him as a "Canadian lawyer", but that wouldn't justify calling him an "Irish lawyer". Also pinging. Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 02:20, 27 March 2023 (UTC)


 * I'm not sure that the lawyers by nationality categories work the way you're describing them. But I don't have strong thoughts on this particular page. Mason (talk) 02:26, 27 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Nationality aside, if there is no mention in the article that he was a lawyer, I just don't see how we can put an unsourced statement in by way of a category. Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 02:32, 27 March 2023 (UTC)
 * I don't disagree with you. Perhaps commenting out the unsourced category could work? Mason (talk) 02:37, 27 March 2023 (UTC)
 * I don't know what "commenting out" means? Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 02:41, 27 March 2023 (UTC)
 * We could put around the category. Anything you put between   will not be displayed when the page is rendered. This is useful for leaving notes or instructions for other editors without cluttering up the visible content of the page. Mason (talk) 02:45, 27 March 2023 (UTC)
 * The category page for Irish lawyers states that it is intended for "lawyers who originated from Ireland or spent a notable part of their careers in Ireland". Under that definition, if he was a lawyer in Canada, even if he never practiced in Ireland, he would still qualify for inclusion in the category. And the sources do support that he was a lawyer in Canada. So I think the best path forward is to keep the categories and add that with sourcing to the article text. Nikkimaria (talk) 02:52, 27 March 2023 (UTC)