Wikisource talk:WikiProject DNB/1912 authors
False friends edit
There are two kinds: one type where the DNB template for DNB12 needs further disambigation (common enough). A second occurs where the author page itself needs disambiguation (Robert Ross is an example). A full check on both these types will be needed. Charles Matthews (talk) 08:20, 30 August 2013 (UTC)
Remaining authors edit
Only a handful two left who really are not under control:
- Author:A. L. Armstrong {{DNB }}
- Author:Mortimer Epstein {{DNB ME}}
- Author:Alfred Thomas Scrope Goodrick {{DNB ATG}}
- Author:D. J. Owen {{DNB }}
- Author:Lionel Robinson {{DNB LR}} and {{DNB LGR}}
The following seem to be properly identified:
Older discussion edit
Adjourned to Talk:Dictionary of National Biography, 1912 supplement/List of Writers
Hard to identify authors edit
John Sergeant edit
- No idea.Dsp13 (talk) 18:02, 19 January 2013 (UTC)
John Sergeaunt edit
- actually John Sargeaunt (1857-1922), classicist and schoolmaster? Dsp13 (talk) 18:02, 19 January 2013 (UTC)
L. P. Sidney edit
- No idea.Dsp13 (talk) 18:02, 19 January 2013 (UTC)
One approach is the ODNB listing of articles: for L. P. Sidney for example it turns up:
- Dale, Sir David, first baronet (1829–1906), industrialist [orig.]
- Wilson, Charles Henry, first Baron Nunburnholme (1833–1907), shipowner [orig.]
The [orig.] only denotes, I think, that the current ODNB article is flagged as "unrevised". And these listings only contain biographies that are revisions. In any case Sidney was clearly some sort of industrial historian. Charles Matthews (talk) 08:15, 20 January 2013 (UTC)
George Smith edit
- No idea.Dsp13 (talk) 18:02, 19 January 2013 (UTC)
W. F. Spear edit
- No idea.Dsp13 (talk) 18:02, 19 January 2013 (UTC)
W. F. Spear is clearly a civil engineer (ODNB for contributions). He is very likely the one mentioned here as editor of Engineering Abstracts, and is elsewhere identified as (Assistant) Secretary of the Institution of Civil Engineers. Charles Matthews (talk) 08:11, 20 January 2013 (UTC)
J. A. Stewart edit
- one of
w:James Alexander Stewart (classicist)w:John Alexander Stewart (classicist) orw:James Alexander Stewart (philosopher)w:John Alexander Stewart (philosopher)? Dsp13 (talk) Resolved from ODNB contributions to the philosopher.Dsp13 (talk) 18:57, 19 January 2013 (UTC)
James Taylor edit
- No idea.Dsp13 (talk) 18:02, 19 January 2013 (UTC)
James Taylor wrote the biography of the physician w:John Hughlings Jackson citing "personal knowledge". He was "James Taylor, Hughlings Jackson's student, collaborator, biographer and unofficial secretary" according to this. Charles Matthews (talk) 07:43, 20 January 2013 (UTC)
P. W. W. for Percy W. Wallace edit
- a misprint for Percy Maxwell Wallace (1863-1943), Secretary to the Senate of the University of London? He edited Tennyson, and according to his Who's Who entry was a DNB contributor. Dsp13 (talk) 18:02, 19 January 2013 (UTC)
- misprint or a djvu scan artefact? Might be worth checking on a different output, due to how djvu's are created with underlying jpgs. — billinghurst sDrewth 01:28, 8 February 2013 (UTC)
William W. White edit
- No idea.Dsp13 (talk) 18:02, 19 January 2013 (UTC)