User talk:Pat Muldowney

Guide to referencing
Click on "show" on the right of the orange bar to open contents.

Alternately, if you're using books and want a short version, you can just copy this and fill in the blanks as needed:



That's a slightly long-winded version of the template where you'll probably never use most of the fields though, so this version should really be sufficient:



Hope that helps. One Night In Hackney 303  17:39, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Killings at Coolacrease
Hi Pat

May I draw your attention to the guideline Conflict of interest? It's an important one, because wikipedia has a strict policy of neutrality, which involves representing all major points if view on a topic fairly and a proportionately.

I am concerned that your contributions to Killings at Coolacrease may be problematic, because it appears that you may be the Pat Muldowney who was one of those who complained to RTE about their television documentary on the subject and who is the author of some of the sources cite in the article. As such, it's a subject in which you have a partisan stake, and you should exercise great caution before editing an article an article on such a topic, In general, where such a conflict of interest arises, is best not to edit the article itself, and instead to leave suggestions for other editors on the article's talk page. -- Brown HairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 02:35, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Killings at Coolacrease
I have nominated Killings at Coolacrease, an article you created, for deletion. I do not feel that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Articles for deletion/Killings at Coolacrease. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time. Do you want to opt out of receiving this notice? Brown HairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 20:24, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

Your Recent Edits
Pat, BHG has challenged me to help you. As both she you and I know, this will be of little value to you. I have however attached a boilerplate; it is a very quick way to look at the policies that you will be beaten over the head with. In theory they apply to everyone. 82.36.178.185 (talk) 00:26, 9 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Pat, there are too many policies there to read in one go. The core policies on articles are the first three listed under "Article standards policies": WP:V, WP:NPOV, WP:NOR. But I don't suppose this is news to you, because these policies have been cited many times before, and I don't suppose it will make much difference because you still continue to cite Heaney as if his books were a reliable source. -- Brown HairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 00:38, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

PS
This is good advice which I personally intend to follow myself 82.36.178.185 (talk) 00:36, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks!
I became interested in this work about a year ago when a stub appeared at [mathematical biog]. Suspecting that nobody else would provide the information, and since I was gathering it up for various journals anyway, I thought I'd better try to find out how WP works, and eventually got round to posting the information which had been requested. It took almost year to assemble this. OMG!!! Original Research - I've just outed myself! But what a nice paradox in WP policy - for various reasons tedious to explain, I was best placed to produce this information. I'd salvaged a great deal of personal papers which were on the verge of being destroyed, from which the required information could be gleaned. Info which nobody else was in a position to get; but WP policy could then prevent me from supplying the info requested in WP! Actually, I just looked at the page again, and various tags & the like have been attached to it. I doubt whether the people who asked for the information to be provided in the first place will be impressed by such distractions from content. Pat Muldowney (talk) 06:56, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

Ralph Henstock
I have added links to the above. I think you should check what I have done as maths is not my strongest subject. I am sure there are more (and better) links that can be made. I am particularly proud of finding this one Feynman integration. It is basically detective work to discover what is and what is not yet covered by Wikipedia. PS if I do any more work or have any questions I will note them at Talk:Ralph Henstock in the future. 82.36.178.185 (talk) 12:41, 9 May 2008 (UTC)


 * lol, I'm sure you are right; I think I better leave that for you!82.36.178.185 (talk) 12:55, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

FYI
As I was not convinced by WP:COI claims made I left a note on the general COI noticeboard here. To date there have been no adverse comments.

Also I have used your sources to expand Daniel Marcus William Beak - again no one is querying WP:RS there. 82.36.178.185 (talk) 08:34, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

Irish War of Independence
Hi Pat, just a heads up on the article. This edit here makes no sence. I had to read the debate to work out its meaning, as it is it has no context at all.

-- Domer48 'fenian'  20:08, 3 February 2009 (UTC)