Talk:Alan Cook

Fraudulent sourcing
The sole source cited for this article, a National Cataloguing Unit Progress Report, has only this to say about the topic:

How anybody can derive the following from this, I don't know:

I would point out that this source has been widely cited in this article since its first creation, by User:Colonel Warden. HrafnTalkStalk(P) 11:32, 19 November 2010 (UTC)

Ten seconds found a large obit in the Times. Collect (talk) 14:06, 19 November 2010 (UTC)


 * From which we learn that Cook worked for the Admiralty, not the Army, and in meteorology, not standards -- always good to know. HrafnTalkStalk(P) 14:59, 19 November 2010 (UTC)

It turns out that the fault is mine. I searched in the source for "Alan Cook", but the substantive part only referred to him as "Cook, Sir Alan Hugh", "Alan Hugh Cook" or "Cook". I unequivocally apologise and retract any accusations. HrafnTalkStalk(P) 18:25, 19 November 2010 (UTC)