User talk:Reflibman

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Response to your email
My concern wasn't with your edit as such, the existing text was unsourced and your source did little more than add a source the for name of the librarian whose article you linked to. As you said, the only reference to dev in the RTÉ article was "It spawned heated Dáil debates with amoung the chief protaganists, opposition leader Eamonn de Valera and Minister for Local Govt. General Richard Mulcahy". As you said it doesn't say which side of the debate he was on, and more importantly it doesn't source the first sentence, or that this incident was the best example of that belief. So my concern is that we're currently drawing our own conclusions about history, rather than reporting those of reliable sources. Thanks. 2 lines of K 303  12:49, 20 June 2012 (UTC)
 * De Valera had realised that to win power he had to appeal to as wide a possible of constituency. This was best demonstrated in Mayo by his objection to the appointment of Letitia Dunbar Harrison, a Protestant librarian

Referencing
Your recent applications of O'Halpin as a source here and here don't check out. Please be more careful. RashersTierney (talk) 22:33, 19 July 2012 (UTC)