User talk:Jim Kinnaird

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License tagging for Image:O'Brien 40.jpg
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Richard Lalor
Thanks for your article creations; I'm currently writing a list of Stewards of the Chiltern Hundreds, so I work in the same general area. It is best to use the same layout as I've used here, with two = mark headings for subsections and no heading for the article. It is also advised to use succession infoboxes; I'll add them in here so you can see how they work. Again, thanks for the excellent work! Ironholds (talk) 22:23, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Alrighty, I've cleaned it up; some advice:


 * Have you autoconfirmed your account yet? If so you might want to do that; it gives you access to some very useful gadgets, including a 'cite' button on your toolbar which will automatically construct correct citations from the information you put in. If you haven't autoconfirmed go to the 'my preferences' menu to do so. If you have, go to the 'my preferences' menu, click 'gadgets' and then tick the refTools box and click save.
 * Dates are not normally linked. In addition when writing about commonwealth/similar people the format is '13 November' rather than 'November 13'
 * As previously mentioned, the headings should be two-level rather than three, and the page as a whole should not have a heading on the top.
 * Other than that everything seems excellent: If you need any help in relation to MP articles or anything else, give me a poke on my talkpage. Ironholds (talk) 22:33, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Hey, I note you don't seem to have enacted the changes I have advised. If you could do so? I keep having to go after you and clean up your articles. Ironholds (talk) 03:10, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

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Your submission at Articles for creation
 You recently made a submission to Articles for Creation. Your article has been reviewed and because some issues were found, it could not be accepted in its current form; it is now located at Wikipedia&. Please view your submission to see the comments left by the reviewer. Feel free to edit the submission to address the issues raised, and resubmit once you feel they have been resolved. (You can do this by adding the text to the top of the article.) Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia! Chiswick Chap (talk) 19:28, 11 October 2011 (UTC)

Your submission John Cullinan at Articles for creation
 John Cullinan (Irish politician), which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created. Thank you for helping Wikipedia! Chiswick Chap (talk) 12:05, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
 * The article has been assessed as Start-Class, which is recorded on the article's talk page. You may like to take a look at the grading scheme to see what needs to be done to bring it to the next level.
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I have added inline citations as requested. In my opinion this makes the article look rather cluttered and I had the balance right the first time. It is really just a matter of opinion how many inline citations there should be when, as in this case, it is obvious that all of the facts about Cullinan's life were taken from one or other of the obituaries referenced. All three of these obituaries are online at http://www.irishnewsarchive.com/, so everything can be readily checked. I hope you will now release this article as there is yet more work to be done on it in the form of putting in the links from the existing numerous references to this person already contained in Wikipedia. Frankly I do not see myself bothering to place articles on Wikipedia in future if it is going to take so much trouble. In doing your refereeing task I think you need to give more consideration to the work you are creating for contributors and the constraints on their time. Wikipedia ought to be grateful for getting this contribution as it is a long-standing gap which it might be many years before anyone else takes the time to fill. (Jim Kinnaird)

Jim, only doing the job... and sorry you found it a pain. I am glad you have completed the article to this quality, and also to hear that plan to continue with improvements. I certainly didn't expect you simply to add more of the same three citations, though I understand exactly why this was the case here. The reason Wikipedia is so fussy about citations is that without them, in a place that anyone can edit at any time, there is no protection against either random and meaningless additions, or indeed sudden deletions. Citations, evidence, are the only things that distinguish reliable "facts" from opinion. Therefore, "original research" - possibly highly accurate and carefully studied - is forbidden; everything must have a reliable, third-party source. It is absolutely a lot of work adding one fact at a time with its citation, but the result is worth it. Major articles like Napoleon have taken editors thousands of hours of work (and 203 separate citations, some used repeatedly). By the way, a technical trick to repeat the use of one citation would partly avoid the 'lot of work' issue - if you give a citation a name 'ref name=Bloggs' then you can reuse it as necessary, just as 'ref name=Bloggs /' (with angle brackets, of course). Chiswick Chap (talk) 12:19, 19 October 2011 (UTC)

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