Hi, it would help if you would properly format references in your contributions by using the Cite error: There are <ref>
tags on this page without content in them (see the help page). tags. Inline refs are not allowed in articles and fixing them makes work for other editors, or they are liable to be removed. If you need any help with this please don't hesitate to get in touch. Hohenloh + 09:32, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
Hi Hohenloh, Is there a wikipage on the correct formatting of references available?MarkDennehy (talk) 11:41, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
See Wikipedia:Citing sources#A quick how-to. This section provides the basics, with more information in the article itself.
BTW, in my mail above I had included the names of the <ref> and </ref> tags, but they were not displayed (I've figured out how to do this now) and "Inline refs" should read "Inline external refs". Hohenloh + 08:31, 9 September 2011 (UTC)
Cheers Hohenloh MarkDennehy (talk) 12:50, 9 September 2011 (UTC)
Hi there, I removed your link to the irish petition from the gun politics article. A petition is a self published source, and thus does not qualify as a reliable source, and thus is inappropriate to use as a reference in an article. An example of a good reliable source would be a newspaper's or broadcaster's website. Sailsbystars (talk) 16:45, 27 September 2012 (UTC)
Dear MarkDennehy,
It seems to me what you have an extensive knowledge of the gun politics in Ireland. Could you please help me with the information about Ireland for the comparison table? I would like to make the table as accurate as possible, so any help is appreciated --Blacknight87 (talk) 08:24, 25 December 2014 (UTC)
Second Quantization (talk) 10:45, 16 October 2015 (UTC)
"should" not. However in this case there are almost no suitable secondary sources - meaning none which are accurate because this is a highly specialised and poorly written chunk of esoteric Irish legislation with *maybe* four dozen people in all of Ireland who have a good working knowledge of it because it consists of over twenty seperate overwriting Acts, two EU directives and over sixty statutory instruments as well as a large cohort of case law (nearly two hundred high and supreme court cases so far) and experience - and you edited out references to the only secondary sources cited anyway.
This really is an edge case. Deleting swathes of text without any sort of notice, discussion or consensus is not a great approach to it. MarkDennehy (talk) 11:23, 16 October 2015 (UTC)
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You deleted my comment when you added yours. Please restore it. Thank you. Anastrophe (talk) 22:05, 30 July 2016 (UTC)