User talk:Matthew Kilburn

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[edit] Possible mistakes in the DNB

Hi,

Welcome to Wikipedia. While contributing to the Wikipedia project Wikipedia:2004 Encyclopedia topics, I noted potential errors in two entries.

The most minor matter is likely a Brittanica mistake. Britannica entry on Nigel Dennis claims he moved back to the UK in 1950. The DNB disagrees placing the return in 1949.

The DNB's Sheila Scott entry provides 1922 as her birth year, however, her Times obituary and the Britannica disagree, believing 1927 to be correct. Her Guardian obituary provides an entirely different date too.

Regards,

lots of issues | leave me a message 18:27, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)


Thanks,

Another addition to the most prestigious of internal Wikipedia pages.

lots of issues | leave me a message 08:40, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] A minor typo

The ODNB's William Blake article states: The mythologizing of Blake's life began with the (embellished?) descriptions of his final days written by friends who considered him a sage.

I'm guessing that was a minor error?

lots of issues | leave me a message 20:03, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Yet another Britannica/ODNB disagreement

"Sir Godfrey Kneller, Baronet

original name Gottfried Kniller born Aug. 8, 1646/49, Lübeck [Germany] died Oct. 19, 1723, London"

--Britannica

"Kneller died on 26 October 1723"

--ODNB

Lotsofissues 07:29, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

I've now remembered to forward this to my ODNB address and I'll check our source this week. --Matthew Kilburn 01:48, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sydney Newman

Hi Matthew. I saw your note on Talk:Sydney Newman, and I wanted to assure you categorically that I had never read your own biography of Newman on the ODNB site until I followed the link to it you added to the Newman article just a few minutes ago. I'm very sorry also that you feel the piece has a Doctor Who bias, as that's precisely the sort of thing I was trying to get away from. Obviously I haven't succeeded very well, but that's more to do with my own paucity of knowledge in other subject areas I suspect. Do please expand and add to it where you feel it's lacking. :-) Angmering 01:25, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply, Matthew. I just thought I'd reassure you as I know how it feels to be ripped off — it's only happened to me seriously on one occasion, a Guardian journalist thinking he could get away with copying stuff off a website, and I remember well how angry it made me feel. The Kenneth Adam thing, I think, comes from the Guardian obit, but I can double-check in the morning. To bed now, though, I think! Angmering 01:38, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] DWAS

Are you still intending to do any more work on the page, as it seems to be languishing a bit at the moment. Not sure I can be objective enough, even now, plus much of my paperwork is in storage at the moment. I may be able to expand/unravel some of the VAT business. Nick Cooper 18:53, 6 July 2007 (UTC)