Talk:Ian Hislop

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replies: text: Second ok, first ok but useless. Third and fourth no good. Martinevans123 (talk) 21:21, 27 July 2018 (UTC)
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thread_title: Assessment comment

message: I see little relevance in identifying (a) the London Borough in which his children were born or (b) the fact that they both studied at Oxford.
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message: The Sonia Sutcliffe reads "According to an interview with Cherwell magazine, he had in fact expected to be imprisoned", citing this source. Ignoring the fact he doesn't appear to have actually said it in the interview, is there any truth to it? Why would Hislop be prepared to go to prison when it was a libel case? Furthermore it was a libel case against Private Eye not him personally. Posting this here with a link on that article's talk page, as this page seems more likely to get a reply, as I believe the sentence should be removed. 2A02:C7D:3CAF:D900:50E:5AA8:D5BD:B89B (talk) 20:01, 27 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sentence in Sonia Sutcliffe article 

message: Moved from BHG's talk to avoid having the discussion on three separate pages... RandomCanadian (talk / contribs)  17:44, 4 December 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: If you object to :Category:Alumni of Magdalen College, Oxford (which IMO comes into 'factoid by which we routinely categorise', like 'people from', 'nationality', 'year of birth', 'year of death') then take the whole category to cfd rather than removing articles here and there. I would say there is no chance of this gaining consensus, as efforts to delete the alumni tree for schools have always failed. Eg Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2008 April 21#High school alumni (United States). Oculi (talk) 20:31, 4 December 2021 (UTC)
replies: text:  That's 13 years ago; and most of the arguments would probably not mean anything by today's standards. Besides the alumni categories (which are clearly not-defining, however you put it), there's also "British people of Jersey descent"; "British people of Scottish descent"; and "British Anglicans". The first two are not defining characteristics (the national origin of this subject's parents do not seem to have much if any influence on his claim to fame - he was born in Wales, fwiw: probably another instance of a cat-tree that needs to be trimmed/deleted too); and the final one, while it gets slightly more than a passing mention in the article (and is much more of a viable category than the others), is still not something that is "commonly and consistently" used by sources to refer to this subject. RandomCanadian (talk / contribs)  23:23, 4 December 2021 (UTC)

text: The additional problem of alumni cats is that, unlike the false equivalence you are making with nationality and biographical dates, is that they are unlikely to be plausible search terms (WP:CATS and WP:DEFCAT really makes me think of categories more as "keywords" than anything else, and well, "British journalists" is a plausible keyword to describe someone), and they are too frequently entirely unsourced and/or not even mentioned in the article... RandomCanadian (talk / contribs)  23:32, 4 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Renewed discussion

message: As can be clearly seen in this source he doesn't really see himself as Welsh, saying: "I was born in Wales. I didn't spend very long there." Martinevans123 (talk) 19:43, 30 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: That's interesting. I was just looking for a source that says he does identify as Welsh, but the fact that he actively doesn't identify as Welsh is even better (as much as I'd love to claim him). – PeeJay 23:01, 30 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Welsh?