User talk:78.18.244.200

October 2020
Hello, I'm JPxG. I noticed that you recently removed content from Cheating in chess without adequately explaining why. In the future, it would be helpful to others if you described your changes to Wikipedia with an accurate edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry; the removed content has been restored. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. jp×g 23:35, 3 October 2020 (UTC)
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Please do not remove content or templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Cheating in chess, without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear to be constructive and has been reverted. If you only meant to make a test edit, please use the sandbox for that. Thank you. jp×g 09:57, 5 October 2020 (UTC)
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Cheating in chess
If you think the section has WP:UNDUE weight, you could try copyediting it to be smaller, or creating a section on the talk page rather than edit-warring with people. I think this would be a more productive option (I don't disagree that the section is probably undue coverage). jp×g 10:01, 5 October 2020 (UTC)
 * i’m glad you have finally realized that I gave a valid reason in the first place though I have been bot reverted without comment several times. It takes two to edit war and you were the one thoughtlessly refusing to engage. I used to edit a lot, and well, but I stopped because people like you were committed to making anonymous editing a huge time sink and virtually impossible. So Wikipedia has lost that content. Now I make my first edit in years out of BLP concerns and my reasoning is ignored along with my obvious good faith. One simple edit. Yes, very unproductive. Your method of editing is bad. 78.18.244.200 (talk) 10:12, 5 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Well, like I said, I don't disagree with you (in fact, I have gone to the article and removed the guy's name from the entry in question). I don't think it would have been that hard to do this in the first place (or start a talkpage section); but at any rate, you were probably right about the BLP issue. I'll remove the 3RR warning. jp×g 10:17, 5 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Please give the impression you read edit summaries and be less trigger happy with your bot use in future.
 * I removed a bullet point, I did not blank a section. References are not a golden ticket for retaining content.
 * Your edits to the article are an improvement to it as it stood, however. Good to see.78.18.244.200 (talk) 10:29, 5 October 2020 (UTC)
 * I did not do this in the first place because I do not think it should be in the article. These are two low rated players, ordinary members of the public, only covered due to sensationalist detail, and probably only here due to recentism and dartboard editing. That’s not good enough for what should be an authoritative article on a general subject, likely the first one any googler will read. That’s how I found it, and I was shocked to find it for hundreds of thousands to read. We do not have to titillate people with stuff that makes for good gossip as the papers do. 78.18.244.200 (talk) 11:05, 5 October 2020 (UTC)

test example
After moving briefly to London, McCormick returned to Dublin, where he worked in the Civil Service. He also took acting roles in the Workmen's Club on York Street, and for the first time under the pseudonym by which he became known for roles with the Queen's Theatre, Dublin. By May of 1919, he had a leading role in an independent production at the Abbey Theatre (The Curate of St. Chad's by Constance Powell Anderson). An attack on Irish acting by Edward Martyn was answered by McCormick in the pages of the journal Banba in June, 1921.

McCormick acted in over 500 plays at the Abbey Theatre, becoming particularly associated with the plays of Sean O'Casey staged there. From 1923–1925, he was also stage manager at the Abbey. Of his performance as Seumas Sheilds in The Shadow of a Gunman, O'Casey said that the actor had created a character greater than that O'Casey had written. He played Capt. Brennan in the filmed version of O'Casey's The Plough and the Stars but it was his return to film in Carol Reed's Odd Man Out (1947) that saw him singled out for praise in contemporaneous reviews. The Irish Times wrote that "the acting of the Irish players was unremittingly professional, and, in the case of F. J. McCormick, as Shell, a weak-minded and elderly corner-boy, quite outstanding." The Times of London found "... it is Mr. F. J. McCormick as a sly, bird-like creature, who stops just the right side of informing, who catches most surely at the imagination."

In their review of the film Hungry Hill (also 1947), The New York Times wrote, "As the butler who served John Brodrick, his sons, and their sons in turn, the late F. J. McCormick is truly magnificent, giving an even more subtle portrayal of Irish character than he did as the wily tramp in Odd Man Out."