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'Presbyterian historian'

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Judging by the Bibliography in this article, Stewart hasn't written any history of Presbyterianism, so that description will have to go! Scolaire (talk) 17:58, 22 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You are right, I meant to say that he had a Presbyterian upbringing / background. He may / may not be a Presbyterian now.Red Hurley (talk) 13:05, 24 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I apologise if my remark seemed flippant, but it had a serious purpose. In theory, there is nothing wrong with saying that somebody is from an x background. But in an article about a writer, especially one as short as this, it might be seen to imply that he writes from a "Presbyterian" point of view, in other words that he is biased. I'd be a little uneasy with that, unless of course it was a fact that he was biased, and that fact could be verified by RS in accordance with BLP. Scolaire (talk) 23:13, 24 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks; it is very short, but I kept on bumping into his name and he is certainly notable.Red Hurley (talk) 13:16, 25 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Did you know nomination

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The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk06:48, 8 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

  • ... that the Northern Irish historian A. T. Q. Stewart once said that Irish history was "... too short, too narrow, upside down and it leans all over to one side"? Source: Independent
  • Reviewed: World Hockey Summit
  • Comment: I had cleared a load of ineligable unsourced bullet points before expansion because I'd have been asked to remove them anyway.

5x expanded by The C of E (talk). Self-nominated at 08:03, 28 May 2020 (UTC).[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
  • Cited: Yes - Offline/paywalled citation accepted in good faith
  • Interesting: Yes
QPQ: Done.
Overall: COE is correct, bullet points are not counted when calculating length. buidhe 23:06, 28 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Grammar

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He married the Queen's English lecturer (lecturer on English?) and either he had or they had two children. Not 'have'. Macdonald-ross (talk) 06:11, 13 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]