User talk:PatrickGuinness

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 * Thanks ww2censor.--PatrickGuinness (talk) 21:58, 8 June 2014 (UTC)

I'll need a talk page too.....--PatrickGuinness (talk) 13:00, 8 June 2014 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Richard Samuel Guinness has been accepted
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Expanding Richard Samuel Guinness
Hello, great start, took almost no tweaking to approve, though getting the WP:Categories precisely right took me a moment since I'm not British so had to sort through the category-tree here. You've a good start, and you are published, but the article could easily be greatly strengthened.


 * Are their any drawings/engravings/portraits of him from his lifetime? If so, they're quite out of copyright, so adding an image of him would help a ton.
 * You're missing a lot of facts about his life; I took just a quick glance at GoogleBooks and you can persuse dozens and dozens of books which mention his life and career. Take a look at gBooks, find more citable facts about him, and add them to the article with footnote. Note you can save a lot of effort as any GoogleBooks link (once you go inside of the book, not a search link) can be instantly converted to a full footnote using http://reftag.appspot.com . He apparently had some whole business career you barely mention.
 * Check other articles written about contemporaneous MPs, see what structures/templates/charts etc they include and figure out if those features need to be replicated in this article.
 * Nice work overall, keep pressing and make it a truly strong article. MatthewVanitas (talk) 20:05, 29 August 2014 (UTC)

Teahouse Invitation
Thx.PatrickGuinness (talk) 09:38, 1 September 2014 (UTC)

Incomplete DYK nomination
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 * Thanks it was complicated. I'd like to post some images but if it's that difficult...PatrickGuinness (talk) 17:44, 16 September 2014 (UTC)


 * It is a bot. There is nobody to answer you.  It's an automated message.  Try asking the guy who reviewed it.  ~  R . T . G  14:48, 13 October 2014 (UTC)

Posting images in DYK is done when you first use the template form to enter the name of the article and the name of the creator and nominators. Posting images for the article is done like this:


 * 1) Go to https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
 * 2) Use the upload wizard located in the blue links at the left of the page "Upload"
 * 3) Come back to WP
 * 4) Take the name of the file and post something like this PatrickmcG.jpg "thumb" gives it the border around it which the text is in. You could add |350px if you want to change the automatic size based on the width, and there are some other stuff like hover-over text but that is the basic of how most pics are currently posted

You'd be amazed at the definition a cheap scanner will give you if you figure how to adjust the settings. Also you might want to visit the Graphics Lab WP:GL where they can do some pretty smart things with damaged photos. Good luck with it o/ ~  R . T . G  04:46, 16 November 2014 (UTC)

DYK nomination of The Second Arthur Guinness
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 * Nancy's birth certificate David listed his occupation as: "Honourable". http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/books/memoirs-of-a-mitford-girl-26690478.html Independent

October 2014
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 * the air, An Tighearna Mhaigheo/Lord Mayo (the other being Thady Ó Cianáin).

DYK
It is a shame that The Second Arthur Guinness did not make DYK this time, but the closing reviewer at DYK was impressed with the article and thought, pending some improvements, it was on its way to Good Article status which would refresh the opportunity for DYK. It just needed better referencing in the manner of referencing rather than the quantity,, but as I do not have access to the small shelf of books used in the referencing, I could not perform the improvements, and would have to relate them to you, to complete that, but not with such a daunting effort required.

So, as my uncle has taken to saying, why don't you get back on your milk and drink your horse. It's not so complicated. ~ R . T . G  04:33, 16 November 2014 (UTC)


 * Hum ho, thanksPatrickGuinness (talk) 21:31, 16 November 2014 (UTC)

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 * Very flattering, but I don't have the time.PatrickGuinness (talk) 15:13, 13 October 2016 (UTC)

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