Talk:Alan Burns (colonial administrator)

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Unreliable references
The article states that In 1946 he introduced a new constitution under which the Legislative Council came to consist of six ex-officio members, six nominated members and eighteen elected members. As a result there was an African majority on the Council. This was cited to Wikipedia's own article on the Gold Coast (British colony), which confirms the methods of appointment of the Legislative Council under the new constitution but not that Burns introduced the constitution or that it made the council majority African. If that article had backed up everything in these sentences with references, I would have added those references here; since it doesn't, I replaced the reference with Template:Citation needed. - LaetusStudiis (talk) 03:02, 26 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Most of this (though not the majority-African part) was backed up by a reliable source in the Gold Coast article, which I have added here. I didn't notice at first because someone had added a source with nothing to do with that article into its text; I removed this. - LaetusStudiis (talk) 04:03, 26 November 2021 (UTC)

Another issue: most of the information on the Kyebi murder case is cited to a blog post; I marked it with Template:Self-published inline, but that blog post has a list of references, many to reliable sources, so we might be able to check those and, if they support the information here, add them in place of the blog. - LaetusStudiis (talk) 03:19, 26 November 2021 (UTC)