Talk:Edward Stanley Gibbons

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The revision by User:Knaggs on 19 November 2004[[1]] appears to be a reproduction of the article: 'Gibbons, (Edward) Stanley' in the Dictionary of National Biography. Although the first DNB was started in the late-nineteenth century, the article on Stanley Gibbons first appeared in the 1993 update, and was revised in the 2004 edition. It is still, therefore, a copyrighted text. For this reason I've reverted the article.

As well as having very similar structures and overall content, there are several paraphrases:

"At this time stamp collecting was becoming popular and, in 1856, he started trading in stamps from his father’s shop. In 1863 he bought two sacks of Cape of Good Hope triangular stamps for £5 from two sailors who had won them in a raffle in Cape Town, and is alleged to have made £500 profit on the deal." - Wikipedia

"Already interested in the new hobby of stamp collecting, he started to trade in stamps in 1856 from a desk in his father's shop... he bought two sacks of Cape of Good Hope triangular stamps for £5 from two sailors who had won them in a raffle in Cape Town. He later claimed to have made £500 on the deal." - DNB

The citation for the DNB article that I'm talking about is: G. E. Dixon, ‘Gibbons, (Edward) Stanley (1840–1913)’, rev., Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [2]'. Members of a public library in the UK should be able to have online access, as should most members of a university (via Athens).