Talk:Waterford IT GAA

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Major overhaul, much more to be done edit

Latest comment: 4 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Wow... what a doozie. Sugar-sweet peacock language everywhere, no sources, no commas, no consideration of the fact that time will pass after the article's creation. I try not to be rude, but this article easily surpassed a lot of self-promoting delusional musicians in its inappropriate aggrandizing of the subject.

I've reworked a large portion of the History section to purge the peacocks. Wikipedia is not an appropriate venue to gush about the strength of the club, etc. I tried to leave all potentially factual information, in spite of the fact that zero sources are provided. I did delete a large chunk of potentially-factual information because it simply didn't have enough info for me to verify what the original editor was talking about. The "upcoming book," for example. I did find a book about Waterford IT GAA, and nearly adjusted the section to talk about it before realizing I may very well have found a completely different book (The Ecstasy and the Agony, by Damien Tiernan). Waterford's "upcoming" sports scholarships were another. I see that Waterford offers athletic scholarships, but are these the same referred to in the article? Reworking from a perspective that holds some awareness of time passing after the article's creation will be necessary if details like this are to be included, because as the article stood, there was no practical way to connect the pieces.

Anyway, I think I've left the article in some kind of workable state, and I'm removing the peacock template, as I think that issue has been fixed. If anyone disagrees, I'd suggest simply removing the offending lines, as most of the peacocks I removed had no factual contributions anyway. There is obviously a long way to go here, namely with sourcing.

Thanks! Skeletor3000 (talk) 21:14, 9 November 2019 (UTC)Reply

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