Template:Did you know nominations/The Second Arthur Guinness

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The result was: rejected by BlueMoonset (talk) 04:40, 29 October 2014 (UTC)

The Second Arthur Guinness

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... that the 1855 funeral procession of the Second Arthur Guinness in Dublin was accompanied by mutes bearing wands and mourning badges?

Created/expanded by PatrickGuinness (talk). Self nominated at 17:49, 14 September 2014 (UTC).

Date, size, hook neutrality are fine. But the article is not referenced sufficiently; I see numerous sentences - even entire paragraphs - lacking citation. The hook sentence is also not referenced; and while the following sentence is referenced as the source is not linked, given the poor referencing of the rest of the article, I cannot even attest that the hook's claim is referenced. Also, please remove the "op cit", they are incompatible with a wiki referencing system (already the first mention of the Joyce is "op cit"...). --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 05:08, 17 September 2014 (UTC)

[WP:CIVILITY violation removed]PatrickGuinness (talk) 12:33, 19 September 2014 (UTC)

@PatrickGuinness and Piotrus: You don't interact like that. ~ R.T.G 14:46, 13 October 2014 (UTC)

Closing as unsuccessful. The nominator has made no move to address the referencing issues in six weeks (and his response was highly inappropriate), the number of unreferenced paragraphs is quite significant and a clear failure to meet DYK standards, and the nominator has not edited in over two weeks. Perhaps, with a different article and attitude, a future nomination could be successful. Indeed, this article could be renominated at a future date should it continue to be improved and eventually become a Good Article. BlueMoonset (talk) 04:40, 29 October 2014 (UTC)