Talk:Robert Bell (Speaker)

message: Looks like a mess, needs structure and major rewrite to make sense for outsiders (like me). Bjelleklang  -  talk 06:37, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I was primarily thinking of people like me, who have limited knowledge to the subject. An article may well be somewhat difficult, as many can be hard to explain in a simple way without making it too long, but as it was when I tagged it, ut looked like it had been randomly copied from various books. You've done a great job fixing it! Bjelleklang  -  talk 07:58, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

text: I think it looks quite good, only needs some headers, and a table of contents, and possibly a picture if it can be found. Bjelleklang  -  talk 08:09, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

text: In my opinion the "complete rewrite" tag could be removed. I have a question. The numbers like this (1), are they in reference to the sources at the bottom? CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 20:40, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Removed the rewrite tag, has improved very much! Thanks. Bjelleklang  -  talk 21:54, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

text: It's looking good. Way better with the sections and the reference numbers gone. Great work. Thanks. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 03:56, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Cleanup

message: *The second paragraph is just undigested notes - this information needs to be built into a connected narrative.
*The association between universities and religion - Oxford (Catholic) and Cambridge (Protestant) needs elaboration - they don't seem to be borne out by the articles on those universities. If anything, the articles suggest the reverse association.
*Some words and phrases, like architect and unfolds the possibility and earnestly and third are italicised for no apparent reason. 
*What on earth is this all about? What relevance does it have to Bell?
No doubt, the tempering of one's soul during this period, surely would have conditioned and or allowed for the refinements of character, necessary, for one to acquire a taste for a latitudinarian posture, with respect to the many religious issues, that at the present time, were, proving quite controversial, and, very dangerous; particularly, in consideration of the many unfortunate, if not, senseless, deaths that both faiths suffered; (Deaths that were inflicted by those "Holy and True" representatives of God and faith (both Catholic and Protestant), who, together, curiously, seemed to embrace the same, "true"ly misleading 'spirit').
*Edwin Sandys needs disambiguation.
*Marriages: this too is just notes, but needs to be in narrative form, and without non-standard abbreviations such as 'dau.'. This kind of abbreviation is necessary in printed media but not in an electronic medium with little need to conserve space. 
*The Henry Neville mentioned is almost certainly not the right one, as he would only have been 15 years old at Bell's death.
* "... (the realm's fount of honour) ...". This is true but irrelevant. Of course the Queen can bestow honours.
*"... and Hobart (pronounced Hubbard) ...". This is an article about Bell - how someone else pronounces his own name is irrelevant here.
*Heraldry: unexplained bolding; unexplained linking of 'three' to 'Holy Spirit', relevance of quotations unexplained
*References: Three web addresses at the bottom of the list. these should be formatted (* [address description]) and probably listed under 'External links'.
Colonies Chris 12:12, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Some areas needing improvement 

message: Why the tilde?GraemeLeggett 11:05, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: For that matter, why the capital "K"? Chris the speller 06:23, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The guideline [Wikipedia:Naming conventions (names and titles)] would place him as Robert Bell (disambiguation modifier). I shall see if there is a suitable one. Then shift and update the redirects which are quite shockingly bad at the moment. GraemeLeggett 09:22, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  article title 

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thread_title: Image copyright problem with Image:The-Arms-of-Sir-Robert-Bell.jpg

message: I am removing the reference given as Bell, R.R.L., Tudor Bell's Sound Out. I see no evidence that it passes WP:RS. In fact it is hard to trace its publication at all. Charles Matthews (talk) 11:16, 5 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reference removed 

message: The article has required attention for some time. I have carried out a number of edits to give it a more typical structure, and started to tighten it up. Charles Matthews (talk) 11:35, 5 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Major edits