User talk:64.108.199.247
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[edit] Monroe Mann
I would like to understand a little bit more about Monroe Mann and your thoughts. His life is certainly interesting and perhaps there is a philosophy of Wikipedia under which he should be included. Tfine80 01:36, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Newbie Mistake
You wrote:
- You do not revert when someone has made several more additions. The people I removed do not fit in with the Irish ethnicity, they are majority non-Irish and are not notable for Irish ancestry. The list is a list of Notable people of Irish decent. Although those people are notable, they are not notable as far as Irish ancestry goes, and do not belong on the selected list. If you want a list of anyone with any Irish blood in them, then the list would be very long. The list is meant though not to be just of any blood, but people are apart of the Irish ethnicity, which is what the page is about. The list you want to create does not fit in with what the page is about. So allow my new additions which do fit in to remain, and keep out those I removed which do not belong. Thank you.
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- First off, if something is NPOV, you revert it whenever you find it, following multiple edits by newbies or not. Secondly, you don't sound that much like a newbie from the above-- it's easy for someone to pose as a newbie by not creating an account, especially if they don't have a fixed IP. All that aside, your explanation above is reasonable. A suggestion-- whenever you plan to remove an substantial amount of otherwise reasonable looking material, put a note on the article's talk page explaining what you are doing and why. And in general, it's a real good idea to fill in the edit summary on every edit with a quick statement on what you're doing.
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- Another thing-- you shouldn't add Category:Irish-Americans to an article that already has an Irish-American category like Category:Irish-American politicians, because the latter category already belongs to the former, making the more generic category redundant.
Happy editing! -- Mwanner | Talk 00:02, 16 October 2005 (UTC)
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