Talk:Peter Hennessy

message: In this edit Cournazac suggests corrections to the road names and queries them not being typical council housing. The corrections are obviously right, and are needed only because the original editor had transcribed them wrongly from the radio programme which was the source, so that's fair enough and I will correct them to Cournazac's spellings. Where this falls down (apart from the question of editing queries into the body text, which we don't do) is on the question of those addresses not being council estates. This is rather the point, and one doesn't even need to hear the original broadcast; it is there on the referenced BBC page about the programme, where it says: "The youngest in a large Irish Catholic family living in council-requisitioned houses, Peter discovers that these same properties are now selling for more than two million pounds." So no, they are not council houses, and never were. So thanks Cournazac for raising this, and I will amend the text to take both of these things into account. Best wishes DBaK (talk) 13:35, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: 'Council-requisitioned' means requisitioned by the council, not from them, as part of the post-war rehousing scheme that had been postponed because of the war. So although not built as council housing, they operated under the authority of the council, hence making them, by definition, council houses- posh or otherwise. Which do YOU mean? Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi 13:46, 8 November 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Sort it out how you like. I'm too busy to do twattish interaction with SHOUTING. DBaK (talk) 14:22, 8 November 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Is English your second language? Your post makes little sense. Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi 12:16, 12 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Houses 

message: Hi. I thought it looked odd/bad with his title in bold way down the article ("His title was announced on 8 November as Baron Hennessy of Nympsfield...") so I took it out. Then I decided it looked odd/bad with no emphasis so I italicized it. Now I can't make my mind up (as in "I used to think I was indecisive, but now I'm not so sure.") between bold., italic, quote marks, or nothing - or something else? Is there some proper MoS advice on this? I'd be happy to see a ruling, but less happy to see it messed around at random based on the prejudices or unsupported beliefs of idiots like, er, me. Best wishes DBaK (talk) 12:12, 31 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Emphasis on title 

message: Please check the term "non-political crossbench peer", which doesn't seem to be correct. Should this be changed to "crossbench peer without being member of a party"? --NearEMPTiness (talk) 18:27, 1 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Non-political crossbench peer 

message: I'm not sure about the change to "was educated". If I nitpick, it seems to suggest that he was educated at only that one secondary school and that the primary school, the other secondary, and Cambridge (!) whatever they did do, it didn't educate him per se. I know we can get tied in knots with all the "was a student at/studied at/attended/etc" wordings but I did wonder if something less general for that one school could be cooked up? with best wishes to all DBaK (talk) 08:01, 17 May 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: (Pretty) mild agreement.   I tend to avoid the term "was educated" for the reasons you indicate.   It's evident that Peter Hennessy picked up some education from somewhere along the way, but I don't see any reason in what is written in this wiki-entry to state which (if any) of the academic establishments he attended in his first (say) 25 years contributed to his education.   So .... since you raise the issue, why don't you change the text to something that raises fewer questions of the unnecessary sort?   Happy Sunday Charles01 (talk) 22:12, 8 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Educated 

message: The article presents the radio series "Reflections" as if it just went on from July to August 2013, but there have been episodes of the programme since then. Vorbee (talk) 19:04, 6 August 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Reflections

message: 1 – Why do a third of the titles in his bibliography lack a publisher's name?
2 – Why does the caption to his Coat of Arms not describe what we actually see? Where is there a worker bee holding a pen? Or other bees "on either side"?
217.155.200.241 (talk)  — Preceding undated comment added 16:21, 18 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Queries