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[Article subject notability questioned.] Taibhseoir (talk) 07:27, 28 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

• The book author and active journalist that is title subject of this article clearly does meet notability guidelines. 98.223.85.159 (talk) 20:16, 2 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Today's edits did not add material without sources. It simply examined content, placed it properly with regard to usual Wikipedia section headings, and in so doing, revealed the fact that citations in the earlier article were repeatedly misused.

Most egregiously, citations were placed at ends of sentences and paragraphs, purportedly as content sources, when the citations did not cover most, if any of the content that preceded them. In one particular case, a QF-authored WSJ article related to aspects of the Irish experience following the rise of Ireland as the Celtic Tiger was placed after a compound sentence stating QF's place of birth and two relevant educational institutions—none of which appear in the cited WSJ.

This edit garnered a bot-response, possible addition of unsourced content. But the opposite is true. The edit hones to WP:VERIFY, and revealed repeated cases of WP:VERIFY violations.

In short, the article is a personal essay on the title subject, mostly written from WP:OR and personal knowledge, and/or drawing from sources without attribution. (If the content it contains can be shown true, it is nevertheless, then, plagiarised.)

Logging editors are invited to carefully review today's edits, and to make bolder edits than we were willing to make. Signed, former logging editors of longstanding, with tens of thousands of earlier edits, who still look in. 98.223.85.159 (talk) 20:16, 2 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]