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

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

Your submission at Articles for creation: Richard Samuel Guinness has been accepted

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Expanding Richard Samuel Guinness

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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)Reply

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

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)Reply
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)Reply
 
This will produce this

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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)Reply

Hum ho, thanksPatrickGuinness (talk) 21:31, 16 November 2014 (UTC)Reply
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Very flattering, but I don't have the time.PatrickGuinness (talk) 15:13, 13 October 2016 (UTC)Reply

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