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Without qualification, the statement ""journalist Shane Richmond noted that Hattersley did not appear to have a Wikipedia biographical entry at the time"" makes any sense at all to the reader, when they are actually reading a biography of Giles Hattersley? The bigger glaring self reference would appear to be the implicit assumption that the reader has the first clue that this article has only existed for a few hours, or indeed would have the first clue how to find that out.   "