Talk:Sandy Nairne

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Autobiograpical bias?

Nairne reviews the accuracy of Wikipedia in this Independent article, and mentions:

It works on the presumption that by and large people will correct things, and I changed one small thing on my own biography.

This edit is the only anonymous edit recent enough to be the edit in question. This is strictly in breach of Wikipedia's policy on autobiography; I tend to think that small uncontroversial corrections have to be OK, but those who know the subject might like to check for autobiographical bias since it seems to include changes like

As a snapshot of this type the series and book have dated very quickly.

becomes

The book has remained a useful reference point for this period.

and many more such.

Of course if Nairne created a user account to do the edits then I'm entirely wrong in which case my apologies! — ciphergoth 17:32, 13 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I dropped a welcome onto the IP address's talk page with a pointer to WP:LIVING, but since it's one of a range from an ISP, I am not confident that it will be seen. So I'm putting the link here as well. Whoever the contributor is, they are obviously familiar with an area we don't have many experts in, so I hope they will make an account and stay. --Telsa (talk) 10:54, 15 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Name

Why use "Sandy" nickname, if his given name is apparently Alexander?--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus ^Talk 22:02, 14 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Mr James Nairne?

See WP:MOSBIO#Names: "While the article title should generally be the name by which the subject is most commonly known, the subject's full name should be given in the lead paragraph, if known". A quick poke around the web confirms that the BBC, the National Portrait Gallery and his published books all refer to him as Sandy (which is a reasonably-common abbreviation of Alexander in the UK), so we should use that for the article title. --Telsa (talk) 10:54, 15 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

National Portrait Gallery

The link goes to a disambiguation page. Apparently there are NPGs in at least the US, UK and Australia. I presume since all his other positions have been in the UK that it should link to the British one? --wroscel, not logged in 128.38.213.67 13:34, 6 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]