Talk:Robert Anderson (Scotland Yard official)

message: It seems strange to list him as Robert Anderson (theologian), as the theologian part is really the least noteworthy aspect of his life. Somehow this page completely missed completely on covering the fact that he was in charge of Scotland Yard during the Jack the Ripper murders and also was caught helping forge papers to try to falsely link Irish leader Charles Parnell with Fenian terrorists. Huge, huge scandals both. Certainly the fact that he wrote some rather unorthodox religious works doesn;t hold a candle to the things he is best known for. DreamGuy 03:27, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: OK, I fixed all that now. Could use a lot more details though. DreamGuy 02:44, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

text: Well, let's just say your idea of historical importance is rather out of step with most people's. It's all well and good that you believe Anderson's theological work was more important than two major historical events whole books are written about, but the rest of the world would disagree. DreamGuy 18:08, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Needs major update

message: I propose that we move this page to Robert Anderson (something), as per wiki article naming convention.  But I can't figure out what to put within the parentheses.  Should it be Robert Anderson (police official)? -Taco325i 13:53, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Proposed move

message: I added links to almost all of the books listed on this page yet some Fascist keeps undoing the links. WHY????? The site that the books are linked to is my site, I own the rights and all the books are in the public domain. I make no $$ form my site, it is just used to post free stuff like free E-books. Is it because the site is a Christian site and we all know how Wikipedia hates Christians? Well I undid the revert and I will keep doing it because I DID NOTHING WRONG EXCEPT TRIED TO HELP!--69.14.41.250 (talk) 18:28, 29 January 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: For a start, inline external links, which is what your list consists of, are not allowed in the body of the article. Then there's the question of advertising, self-promotion, etc. Hohenloh  +   19:11, 6 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: update that keeps getting undone?????

message: The statement "In 1888, Monro was promoted to Commissioner, and Anderson replaced him as Assistant Commissioner" was not correct and I suspect was a misreading of the cited source. Anderson did indeed succeed Monro, but not because James Monro became Commissioner. As the source actually states Monro resigned. As Monro's article he makes clear, Monro had clashed with Commissioner Sir Charles Warren since his appointment and finally resigned as Assistant Comissioner in September 1888 over Warren's veto of the appointment of his choice as Chief Constable, CID. However Home Secretary Henry Matthews, who sympathised with Monro, kept him on as head of Special Branch under the Home Office. Eventually Warren resigned in November 1888 and it was at this point Monro succeeded him. Thus Monro becoming Commissioner did not bring about Anderson's appointment, so I have re-worded to accurately reflect this. Dunarc (talk) 18:34, 16 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sucession to James Monro