User talk:Erithrocyte
September 2020
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Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at Sidney Greenbaum. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use your sandbox. Repeated vandalism may result in the loss of editing privileges. Thank you. Fowler&fowler«Talk» 20:17, 17 September 2020 (UTC)
Hi, it's not vandalism. I am an inexperienced editor for sure, but I have the Dictionary of National Biography article in front of me. Here is what it says. I can c&p the whole thing in full if you like but here are the relevant paragraphs:
"Greenbaum was a very private, intensely lonely, and in some respects tragic person, generous to his friends but awkward in female company and quite lacking in social graces. Unusually for an Orthodox Jew, he never married. He was at his best when entertaining family and colleagues. While drinking a glass of whisky and smoking a cigar he would sit in his favourite chair, talking to his guests. Towards the end of his life he suffered increasingly from ill health.
In 1990 Greenbaum resigned the Quain chair at University College following his conviction in London of a number of charges of sexual assault on young boys. He was able to continue directing the Survey of English Usage. On 28 May 1996, while delivering a lecture at Moscow University, he died of heart failure."
I hope I've done this correctly, if not it's not intentional.
(Erithrocyte (talk) 20:23, 17 September 2020 (UTC))
Incidentally, I am very happy to be open about who I am if that would help to establish bona fides. I don't know if it's somehow against the rules.