User talk:PatGallacher

Nicola Adams

Hello PatGallacher, I'd like to clarify my intention for changing the above article on Nicola Adams. She has mentioned in interviews numerous times that she is bisexual (and this was the reason for why she fought for a female partner on Strictly Come Dancing) so it was wrong for the article to mislabel her as gay. The cited reference that was already there does mention her bisexuality*, so that is why I didn't add my own cite.

• so this was in fact an incorrect cite for the misinformation I was trying to correct in the first place.

Arthur Mullard

Hello PatGallacher, I just wanted to clear up the nature of my (now-reverted) edit to Arthur Mullard's article- I in no way sought to indicate 'doubt' regarding the allegations (as there's no way I personally could have any real knowledge of it), but wondered if perhaps the emphasis on his daughter's claims was too great given the absence of any other sources than the Sunday Mirror, which, as the Sunday edition of the Daily Mirror, is presumably subject to the same consideration given to the latter at Wikipedia:Potentially unreliable sources. Since you've reverted the edit I don't intend to try again, but I do think it a shame that no other sources- even referring to the allegations second-hand- seem to exist which would lend credibility to them, and more to the point, to the very insistent manner in which details of said allegations are presented in three separate sections of the article. Just wanted to let you know where I was coming from when I made the edit, lest it be considered that simple doubt regarding the truthfulness of his daughter's claims had motivated me. Thanks!

Kiss Me, Kate (TV film) moved to draftspace

Thanks for your contributions to Kiss Me, Kate (TV film). Unfortunately, I do not think it is ready for publishing at this time because it needs more sources to establish notability. I have converted your article to a draft which you can improve, undisturbed for a while.

Please see more information at Help:Unreviewed new page. When the article is ready for publication, please click on the "Submit the draft for review!" button at the top of the page OR move the page back. SunloungerFrog (talk) 11:44, 16 May 2025 (UTC)

Jon Wyndham's Chrysalids

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Chrysalids&diff=1293648619&oldid=1293627964

I did a quick check on Amazon's electronic copy of the novel, and failed to find the word "Tribulation", regardless of the article. However, it seems to me that an article is required, as the term indicates an event, rather than a person.

NicoDaFirenze (talk) 11:18, 3 June 2025 (UTC)

It might be a lousy copy. I have checked a copy on my bookshelf, near the end of chapter 4, the word occurs several times, without a definite article. Take it up with the author, not me. PatGallacher (talk) 12:09, 3 June 2025 (UTC)

Can't argue with that. NicoDaFirenze (talk) 13:42, 3 June 2025 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for Darius the Great

Darius the Great has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Z1720 (talk) 22:50, 3 June 2025 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Victoria Studd

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Category:Scottish deaths at the Battle of Falkirk has been nominated for renaming

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DYK for Davy Russell (politician)

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Gatoclass (talk) 00:26, 21 June 2025 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Edwin Brown (actor)

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Timurid empresses

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Executed Children

I saw your note saying that the official Wikipedia parameters for the category of executed children is under 18. That is just plain stupid. Another example of Wikipedia's nonsense parameters and guidelines. Under English law as it existed in 1554, Jane Grey was an adult by virtue of being married. And she had been placed on the English throne as monarch with the understanding that she was an adult and that no regent was required. But hey, I am sure that Wikipedia's powers that be know more than anyone else on earth. God forbid that historical truth should violate Wikipedia's guidelines. That's it ... I quit. I refuse to struggle any further with Wikipedia's nonsense and its amateur editors with little or no knowledge on given topics. I leave the Jane Grey article to those who have read Alison Weir and Phillipa Gregory and think they know "history." DesertSkies120 (talk) 22:20, 11 July 2025 (UTC)

There is a legitimate debate about the cut-off point for "children", but I think it has to be an age. Marriage doesn't necessarily affect it, there have been people married significantly younger than this. Even being a monarch without a regent isn't crucial, e.g. James IV of Scotland became monarch at 15 without a regent. PatGallacher (talk) 00:08, 12 July 2025 (UTC)

Category:Scottish deaths at the Battle of Pinkie has been nominated for splitting

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