Topic on Talk:Elwin McGhee

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Hi there. I'm not the original author of the piece, but being a) a Lift fan and b) Irish, I can contribute some perspective.

Regarding the drunken revelry comment, it is a somewhat offhand reference. The context is that the player is part of the County team - think someone on the college football team (this works for both American football and soccer), and, after a party, causes a load of destruction, which is just laughed off because "ah sure, he's on County, it's fine!". I can remove the drunken part, however - that's not entirely relevant, what's relevant is the destruction and it being shrugged off by the locals.

Regarding the Irish pub comment, though, I'm not seeing the issue. There are estimated to be around 7000 or more Irish pubs worldwide. It's a very lucrative business model, either in expatriate areas or as a theme. Sometimes they're even founded by people who have lived in Ireland, and have some authenticity about them. There are actually already sixteen Irish pubs in Tokyo within six kilometres of each other. The fact that two Irish people came to Tokyo to set one up isn't a stretch or really a harmful stereotype.

As I said, I can rewrite the revelry portion, because that doesn't add to the story (and might not be age appropriate in some areas). How would I go about doing so and reuploading it? Submit it a second time? Or would I need to ask the original author to do so?