Talk:Tim Pat Coogan

message: Could somebody give a source for recent changes, particularly gay rumours.  If nobody does so in a reasonable time then I will revert. PatGallacher 17:42, 2005 August 14 (UTC)
I've done so. It was a garbage addition which isn't even based on a rumour must less fact. FearÉIREANN\(caint) 17:55, 14 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: request

message: As everyone knows, this article is the frequent target of having POV information inserted repeatedly.  Obviously, this goes against Wikipedia policy.  However, I feel that the article prior to such edits did not mention that there was any controversy surrounding Mr. Coogan at all, and that this was the cause for such vandalism to occur.  The fact that the vandal cited a website and gave quotations is evidence that the controversy is indeed, noteable, and should be mentioned.  I feel that if we describe the controversy without supporting either side, that the vandalism should at least decrease, but hopefully go away completely.  I do not have expertise in the area of Irish history, but I am willing to work on this article so that it will not only be NPOV, but that also it will not make a random reader feel as if it is missing anything.  I feel like the current revision is not POV, but it isn't thorough either.  It would be nice for us to discuss the issue here before making drastic edits to the page.  --Anaraug 21:04, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Coogan can be passionate all he wants. But he is now and has been for a while, if he wasn't always, a republican propagandist (and an increasingly triumphalistic one), using weasel wording (coyly declining to identify republicans when inconvenient to his narrative and grudgingly at best acknowledging IRA atrocities) in between his extensive footnotes, which are largely from his own interviews with unidentified or long-deceased IRA volunteers. He is not a mainstream writer, he is a hard-line republican supporter, like Robin Livingstone or Father Des Wilson. Quis separabit? 03:07, 22 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Compromise 

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BetacommandBot (talk) 05:42, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Coogan93.jpg

message: :Image:News-1856079244b.jpg is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.
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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:News-1856079244b.jpg

message: I have commenced a tidy-up of the Bibliography section using cite templates. Capitalization and punctuation follow standard cataloguing rules in AACR2 and RDA, as much as Wikipedia templates allow it. ISBNs and other persistent identifiers, where available, are commented out, but still available for reference. Feel free to continue. Sunwin1960 (talk) 03:16, 2 September 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bibliography 

message: My grasp of early 20th century Irish history is rudimentary (and mainly is sourced from one of Coogan's books), but I know that Michael Collins died during the Irish Civil War which was contested by Irishmen who either supported or opposed the Anglo-Irish Treaty. Since the pro-treaty victors of the civil war were representing the Irish Free State, should "Irish Free State'" replace "new State" in this quote from the article? : "His biography of de Valera proved controversial, taking issue with the former Irish president's reputation and achievements, in favour of those of Collins, whom he regards as indispensable to the creation of the new State" 47.137.181.252 (talk) 01:58, 13 February 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  New State