Talk:Michael Billington (critic)

message: The article seems to be a copy of this mini biography produced by the British Council. WP page was started 7 July 2006, with substantially the same text. British Council has blocked Wayback Machine, so I can't say for certain when the material first appeared there but from similar pages it may be 2003 (not confirmed). If I can find out more I will consider tagging it as
. --Old Moonraker (talk) 22:30, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Deleted and replaced with original work. --Old Moonraker (talk) 09:10, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[WP:COPYVIO|Copyvio]] 

message: Valid link and well worth a read, I thought. Any reason why it should have been deleted? --Old Moonraker (talk) 15:23, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks. --Old Moonraker (talk) 21:10, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: ''State of the Nation'' reviewed in [[Times Literary Supplement|TLS]]

message: I have changed the use of "fall" for the season of the year to "autumn" and "matriculate" to the most commonly used British term "go up" (it's in the OED thus). WP:ENGVAR has "no general preference for a major national variety of the language" but points out that "If an article has evolved using predominantly one variety, the whole article should conform to that variety" and "the variety chosen by the first major contributor to the article should be used". These changes are to reflect that policy: there is no good reason for recent edits imposing US usages onto  an article written in British English. --Old Moonraker (talk) 10:42, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The re-wording to avoid the issue is a useful and constructive way around: thanks for this. I still have doubts about the frequency of citation here—I do not believe that this level of detail is necessary to defend the allegations of plagiarism made above—but there is no doubt that the quality of the article has been improved a great deal. --Old Moonraker (talk) 09:30, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  National varieties of English 

message: A source provided earlier, Andrew Haydon's article "Critical Thinking", timesonline.co.uk, features a photograph of Michael Billington (actor), not the subject of this article Michael Billington (critic).  (The actor Michael Billington died in 2005.) The photo featured in Haydon's article online (and possibly also in print?) is the same as the IMDb photograph of the actor.  I've corrected the link in the section of notable participants in the National Student Drama Festival to go to the critic, not to a disambiguation page (as it was linked) or to the actor.  --NYScholar (talk) 22:35, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: [Publisher alerted to the error and will perhaps replace the photograph in due course. --NYScholar (talk) 23:35, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Erroneous photograph featured in source cited

message: 2009 admissions and the complete list are here, but Billington isn't included. Is there a source I've missed? Apologies if so. --Old Moonraker (talk) 11:15, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fellow of [[Kings College London]] 

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