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Request reason:

I have recently created this Wikipedia account while my IP address was blocked for persistent addition of unsourced material because I was eager to make positive contributions to Wikipedia by correcting minor errors and adding information. I sincerely regret my actions, and I promise to follow Wikipedia's guidelines in future and source all material that I add when I can. If you do not feel that I am ready to be unblocked, I respectfully ask if it is possible for an expiration time to be placed upon my block, and I will not make any further edits until this time.

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Your disruptive behavior has been going on for well over a year, so there's no way we're going to let the block expire automatically. Please consider WP:Standard offer, which, among other things, will require you to refrain from editing this Wikipedia for at least 6 months. No socks, IP or otherwise! Favonian (talk) 09:20, 23 April 2017 (UTC)

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Ricardo Montez

Born Levy Isaac Attias on 23 September 1923 in Gibraltar to Jewish parents, he and his family were evacuated to England during World War II. On returning home, he worked in different jobs, including as an extra in films shot in Gilbraltar, and while appearing in the British film Wonderful Things! (1958), the actor Frankie Vaughan persuaded him to travel to London and become an actor, which he did in 1962, changing his name to Ricardo Montez. He appeared primarily in television programmes, including The Saint, The Avengers, Doctor at Sea and Don't Drink the Water, in which he usually played Spanish characters, before being cast in his best known role as Juan Cervantes, the Spanish bartender in a class of mature English language students, in the situation comedy series Mind Your Language from 1977 and 1979, reprising his role in a revival of the series in 1986. In his later years, Montez continued to appear on television in programmes including Sharpe's Honour and Casualty, as well as commercials. His final acting role was in the film Mamma Mia! (2008). He lived in Richmond, London, and used to visit Gibraltar twice a year. He married Orivida Hatchwell in 1953; they had a daughter, Clara, and a granddaughter, Sara. Montez died from cancer at his daughter's home in Marbella, Spain on 26 October 2010, at the age of 87.>

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Request reason:

As recommended by Favonian, I looked at the WP:Standard offer and found the {{2nd chance}} procedure, which I decided to undergo. Submitted above is a significant edit to the article Ricardo Montez, containing extra information for which I have provided a reliable source that follows the two existing sources; you can compare the material that I have added with the actual article, which remains as it was before I copied the prose which I have edited here. My aim on Wikipedia is to add accurate information that is reliably sourced in order to improve Wikipedia as an encyclopedia, and I hope that this provides an example of the kind of contributions that I hope to make, should you choose to unblock me.

Decline reason:

WP:SO requires six months with no edits. You are nowhere near that. Yamla (talk) 16:17, 28 April 2017 (UTC)

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• Do you realize that every time you evade your block by 1) creating a new account or 2) editing via an IP (like you did yesterday) the clock is reset on the minimum six months required to meet the requirements of the standard offer?--Jezebel's Ponyo^{bons mots} 22:42, 26 June 2017 (UTC)

Ricardo Montez

Born Levy Isaac Attias on 23 September 1923 in Gibraltar to Jewish parents, he and his family were evacuated to England during World War II. On returning home, he worked in different jobs, including as an extra in films shot in Gilbraltar, and while appearing in the British film Wonderful Things! (1958), the actor Frankie Vaughan persuaded him to travel to London and become an actor, which he did in 1962, changing his name to Ricardo Montez. He appeared primarily in television programmes, including The Saint, The Avengers, Doctor at Sea and Don't Drink the Water, in which he usually played Spanish characters, before being cast in his best known role as Juan Cervantes, the Spanish bartender in a class of mature English language students, in the situation comedy series Mind Your Language from 1977 and 1979, reprising his role in a revival of the series in 1986. In his later years, Montez continued to appear on television in programmes including Sharpe's Honour and Casualty, as well as commercials. His final acting role was in the film Mamma Mia! (2008). He lived in Richmond, London, and used to visit Gibraltar twice a year. He married Orivida Hatchwell in 1953; they had a daughter, Clara, and a granddaughter, Sara. Montez died from cancer at his daughter's home in Marbella, Spain on 26 October 2010, at the age of 87.>

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Request reason:

Having waited several months, I am now trying to undergo the the {{2nd chance}} procedure. Submitted above is a significant edit to the article Ricardo Montez, containing extra information for which I have provided a reliable source that follows the two existing sources; you can compare the material that I have added with the actual article, which remains as it was before I copied the prose which I have edited here. My aim on Wikipedia is to add accurate information that is reliably sourced in order to improve Wikipedia as an encyclopedia, and I hope that this provides an example of the kind of contributions that I hope to make, should you choose to unblock me. If you choose not to unblock me, I would like to know if it would be possible to let me know how long I should wait until I can undergo the procedure again, and I will refrain from any editing activity until then. — Preceding unsigned comment added by North Station (talk • contribs) 13:31, 4 November 2017 (UTC)

Decline reason:

Seeing as you as recently as June were still editing via an IP, the 6 months for the Standard Offer has not passed. Again, 6 months, no edits ANYWHERE. No unblock requests, no IP edits. RickinBaltimore (talk) 15:56, 7 November 2017 (UTC)

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Frederick Kerr

Early life

Frederick Kerr was born Frederick Grinham Keen on 11 October 1858 in London, the elder son of Grinham Keen, a solicitor. He was educated at Charterhouse School before going up to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he read law. After graduating from Cambridge in 1880, he enrolled at the Inner Temple with the intention of becoming a barrister, but left shortly afterwards to pursue a career as an actor.

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Theatre career

He went to New York City in 1880 and worked as a sketch artist, when sheer chance turned him into an actor. He was living in a boarding house on 7th Avenue, where a number of theatrical people also lived, among them Henry Miller, who eventually became his manager. Osmond Tearle, an actor living there, heard from his own producer that an Englishman was needed for a production of The School for Scandal. Tearle recruited Frederick, who got the part in January 1882 (which is also likely the moment he took the stage surname of "Kerr"). He appeared in several more plays in New York City that year, but left for Britain to appear in a London play in December 1882, after which he joined the company at the Royal Court Theatre managed by John Clayton and Arthur Cecil. Over the next fifty years, he travelled back and forth across the Atlantic several times for theatrical work both in New York City and in London.

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Kerr became actor-manager of the Vaudeville Theatre in London in 1895 and later managed the Royal Court Theatre. He starred in Public Opinion at Wyndham's Theatre in 1905 and also as the titular pirate in George Bernard Shaw's Captain Brassbound's Conversion at the Court Theatre in 1906.

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Request reason:

Having waited six months, I am now trying to undergo the the {{2nd chance}} procedure. Submitted above are some significant edits to the article Frederick Kerr, containing extra information for which I have provided a reliable source that follows the existing source; you can compare the material that I have added with the actual article, which remains as it was before I copied the prose which I have edited here. My aim on Wikipedia is to add accurate information that is reliably sourced in order to improve Wikipedia as an encyclopedia, and I hope that this provides an example of the kind of contributions that I hope to make, should you choose to unblock me. If you choose not to unblock me, I would like to know if it would be possible to let me know how long I should wait until I can undergo the procedure again, and I will refrain from all editing activity until then. — Preceding unsigned comment added by North Station (talk • contribs) 16:52, 7 May 2018 (UTC)

Decline reason:

Procedural decline only. This unblock request has been open for more than two weeks but has not proven sufficiently convincing for any reviewing administrator to take action. You are welcome to request a new block review if you substantially reword your request. Yamla (talk) 12:52, 20 May 2018 (UTC)

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• CU Note to reviewing Admin Unlike previous SO unblock requests, I don't see any recent intentional block evasion.--Jezebel's Ponyo^{bons mots} 19:13, 9 May 2018 (UTC)

Ricardo Montez

Born Levy Isaac Attias on 23 September 1923 in Gibraltar to Jewish parents, he and his family were evacuated to England during World War II. On returning home, he worked in different jobs, including as an extra in films shot in Gibraltar. While appearing in the British film Wonderful Things! (1958), the actor Frankie Vaughan persuaded him to travel to London and become an actor, which he did in 1962, changing his name at Vaughan's suggestion to Ricardo Montez. He appeared primarily in television programmes, including The Saint, The Avengers, Doctor at Sea and Don't Drink the Water, in which he usually played Spanish characters, before being cast in his best known role as Juan Cervantes, the Spanish bartender in a class of mature English language students, in the situation comedy series Mind Your Language from 1977 and 1979, reprising his role in a revival of the series in 1986. In his later years, Montez continued to appear on television in programmes including Sharpe's Honour and Casualty, as well as in commercials. His final acting role was in the film Mamma Mia! (2008). He lived in Richmond, London, and used to visit Gibraltar twice a year. He married Orivida Hatchwell in 1953; they had a daughter, Clara, and a granddaughter, Sara. Montez died from cancer at his daughter's home in Marbella, Spain on 26 October 2010, at the age of 87.>

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Request reason:

Submitted above are some significant edits to the article Ricardo Montez, containing extra information for which I have provided a reliable source that follows the two existing sources; you can compare the material that I have added with the actual article, which remains as it was before I copied the prose which I have edited here. I hope that these edits provide an example of the kind of contributions that I hope to make to Wikipedia, should you choose to unblock me. 20:55, 21 May 2018 (UTC)

Accept reason:

Per this discussion. Welcome back. --NeilN ^{talk to me} 15:37, 5 June 2018 (UTC)

I've started a discussion at WP:AN#North Station unblock request. Max Semenik (talk) 05:25, 3 June 2018 (UTC)

Ping Ponyo so they're aware. --NeilN ^{talk to me} 15:38, 5 June 2018 (UTC)

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I created my user name simply by combining two random words together. I am unaware of any organisation or other corporate entity named North Station, and therefore, I do not believe that my username violates Wikipedia’s policy. 21:20, 9 July 2018 (UTC)

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And again - the RC category is not for every member of a faith. I've reverted your edit to Fiona Shaw. Please see WP:BLPCAT. Bastun^{Ėġáḍβáś₮ŭŃ!} 09:40, 12 July 2021 (UTC)

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Stop please!

Please stop "correcting" links which do not need to be corrected. It is disruptive. You have already been asked to read and abide by WP:NOTBROKEN, I am asking you again so to do. DuncanHill (talk) 14:19, 25 May 2021 (UTC)

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Seán P. Ó Ríordáin

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The Right Honourable T. P. O'Connor PC
Father of the House of Commons
In office 14 December 1918 – 18 November 1929
Speaker	James Lowther John Henry Whitley Edward FitzRoy
Preceded by	Thomas Burt
Succeeded by	David Lloyd George
Member of Parliament for Liverpool Scotland
In office 18 December 1885 – 18 November 1929
Preceded by	New constituency
Succeeded by	David Logan
Member of Parliament for Galway Borough
In office 27 April 1880 – 18 December 1885 Serving with John Orrell Lever
Preceded by	George Morris Michael Francis Ward
Succeeded by	William Henry O'Shea
Personal details
Born	(1848-10-05)5 October 1848 Athlone, County Westmeath, Ireland, UK
Died	18 November 1929(1929-11-18) (aged 81) Westminster, London, England, UK
Resting place	St Mary's Catholic Cemetery, Kensal Green, London
Political party	Irish Parliamentary Party (1882–1929) Home Rule League (1880–1882)
Spouse	Elizabeth Howard ​ (m. 1885)​
Alma mater	Queen's College Galway

Thomas Power O'Connor, PC (5 October 1848 – 18 November 1929), known as T. P. O'Connor and occasionally as Tay Pay (mimicking the Irish pronunciation of the initials T. P.), was an Irish nationalist politician and journalist who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland for nearly fifty years.

Early life and education

O'Connor was born in Athlone, County Westmeath, on 5 October 1848. He was the eldest son of Thomas O'Connor, an Athlone shopkeeper, and his wife Teresa (née Power), the daughter of a non-commissioned officer in the Connaught Rangers. His family were supporters of the Liberal Party. He was educated at the College of the Immaculate Conception in Athlone, and Queen's College Galway, where he won scholarships in history and modern languages and built up a reputation as an orator, serving as auditor of the college's Literary and Debating Society.

Career

From 1867, O'Connor attempted unsuccessfully to gain a position in the Civil Service before working for the Royal Irish Constabulary as a reporting assistant on nationalist political demonstrations. He entered journalism as a junior reporter on Saunders' Newsletter, a Dublin journal. In 1870, he moved to London, and was appointed a sub-editor on The Daily Telegraph, principally on account of the utility of his mastery of French and German in reportage of the Franco-Prussian War. He later became London correspondent for The New York Herald. He compiled the society magazine Mainly About People (M.A.P.) from 1898 to 1911.

O'Connor was elected Member of Parliament for Galway Borough in the 1880 general election, as a representative of the Home Rule League (which was under the leadership of William Shaw, though virtually led by Charles Stewart Parnell, who would win the party's leadership a short time later). O'Connor had been invited to stand as the Liberal candidate for the constituency on the strength of the unflattering biography of then Conservative Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli he had written in 1878. However, after being persuaded by Parnell, O'Connor stood reluctantly as an Irish party candidate. Despite opposition from Irish Catholic clergymen to the selection of the reputedly agnostic O'Connor as the Irish Nationalist candidate, he won the seat - allegedly with some support from the Irish Republican Brotherhood - because of his vocal support for the ideals of the Irish National Land League. By now a permanent resident of London, who spoke with a London accent, he did not generally speak at land rallies but was appointed to the Land League executive by Parnell. He also made four visits to the U.S. to raise funds for his party from politically engaged Irish Americans.

At the next general election in 1885, O'Connor was returned both for Galway and for the Liverpool Scotland constituencies, which had a large Irish population. He chose to sit for Liverpool, and represented that constituency in the House of Commons from 1885 until his death in 1929. He remains the only British MP from an Irish nationalist party ever to be elected to a constituency outside of the island of Ireland. O'Connor continued to be re-elected in Liverpool under this label unopposed in the 1918, 1922, 1923, 1924 and 1929 general elections, despite the declaration of a de facto Irish Republic in early 1919, and the establishment by 1921 treaty of a quasi-independent Irish Free State in late 1922.

T. P. O'Connor in 1917

From 1905, he belonged to the central leadership of the United Irish League. Although in his later years he was often criticised for distancing himself from the Irish community, he remained the most prominent Irish nationalist politician in Great Britain, and was on close terms with each successive government, and with David Lloyd George in particular. During much of his time in parliament, he wrote a nightly sketch of proceedings there for the Pall Mall Gazette. A highly popular figure among MPs from all parties, he became "Father of the House of Commons", with unbroken service of 49 years 215 days.

O'Connor supported the Irish Reform Association, and by the 1910s, he had come to accept the idea of partition. Having drawn the admiration of even the Ulster Unionist leader Sir Edward Carson, he played a leading role in the Irish Convention in 1917. The Irish Nationalist Party ceased to exist effectively after the Sinn Féin landslide of 1918, and thereafter O'Connor effectively sat as an independent, although from the early 1910s, he had been rallying Irish people in Great Britain behind the Labour Party. On 13 April 1920, O'Connor warned the House of Commons that the death on hunger strike of Thomas Ashe would galvanise opinion in Ireland and unite all Irishmen in opposition to British rule. He supported the 1921 Anglo-Irish Treaty, although he subsequently appealed in vain to the British government to moderate its demand for a substantial contribution from the newly created Irish Free State to the imperial exchequer.

Newspapers and journals

T. P. O'Connor founded and was the first editor of several newspapers and journals: The Star, the Weekly Sun (1891), The Sun (1893), M.A.P. and T.P.'s Weekly (1902). In August 1906, O'Connor was instrumental in the passing by Parliament of the Musical Copyright Act 1906, also known as the T.P. O'Connor Bill, following many of the popular music writers at the time dying in poverty due to extensive piracy by gangs during the piracy crisis of sheet music in the early 20th century. The gangs would often buy a copy of the music at full price, copy it, and resell it, often at half the price of the original. The film I'll Be Your Sweetheart (1945), commissioned by the British Ministry of Information, is based on the events of the day.

Bust of journalist and politician T. P. O'Connor in Fleet Street, London. The inscription reads, "His pen could lay bare the bones of a book or the soul of a statesman in a few vivid lines."

He was appointed as the second president of the Board of Film Censors in 1916 and appeared in front of the Cinema Commission of Inquiry (1916), set up by the National Council of Public Morals where he outlined the BBFC's position on protecting public morals by listing forty-three infractions, from the BBFC 1913–1915 reports, on why scenes in a film may be cut. He was appointed to the Privy Council by the first Labour government in 1924. However, he declined the offer of a peerage, considering the House of Lords to be elitist. He was also a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Journalists, the world's oldest journalists' organisation. It continues to honour him by having a T.P. O'Connor charity fund. On his eightieth birthday in 1928, O'Connor was invited to dine with King George V, and despite being confined to a wheelchair, he continued to attend parliamentary debates until his death.

Publications

• Lord Beaconsfield – A Biography (1879);
• The Parnell Movement (1886);
• Gladstone's House of Commons (1885);
• Napoleon (1896);
• The Phantom Millions (1902);
• Memoirs of an Old Parliamentarian (1929).

Personal life

In 1885, O'Connor married Elizabeth Howard (née Paschal), a daughter of George W. Paschal, an associate justice of the Supreme Court of Arkansas. The couple, who had no children, rarely lived together, and had separated permanently by the outbreak of World War I.

Death

O'Connor fell seriously ill in 1929; a substantial collection for him was raised in the House of Commons. He died at his flat in Westminster on 18 November 1929 and is buried at St Mary's Catholic Cemetery, Kensal Green in north-west London. He was the last Father of the House to die as a sitting MP until Sir Gerald Kaufman in 2017.

Bibliography

• Boyce, D George (1982). Nationalism in Ireland. London.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Cottrell, Peter (2008). Irish Civil War, 1922–23. Botley, Oxford.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Walsh, Maurice (2008). The News from Ireland: Foreign Correspondents and the Irish Revolution. London.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Wilson, Trevor, ed. (1970). The Political Diaries of C.P.Scott 1911–1928. London.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

External links

• Media related to Northern Hills at Wikimedia Commons
• Works by or about [[:s:|]] at Wikisource
• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by T. P. O'Connor
• Works by Northern Hills at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about Northern Hills at the Internet Archive

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