Talk:Christopher Anstey

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Please forgive my ignorance, but could someone provide a transalation of the Latin? Epeeist smudge 16:48, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
 * My rusty latin translates the start as "Doctors without doctrine, artless Masters of Arts". I think that the remainder is a similar pun between a bachelor (ie BA) and a walking stick (baculus). Bluap 17:20, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks for that. If we can get a complete translation, it would add something to the article. Epeeist smudge 14:08, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Someone had already provided the full version but really the English goes in the running text here and the Latin goes in the notes. — Llywelyn II   15:00, 30 July 2015 (UTC)

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Just as a reminder, cites are better than lacks thereof. If the EB9 is actually wrong about something, make a note of it and have a better source to justify it. If there are newer sources to replace it, by all means do so. But we shouldn't leave things uncited or claim that the text comes from the EB11 when it's simply copied over from the earlier edition. — Llywelyn II   15:00, 30 July 2015 (UTC)

As noted, the EB9 does appear to have been mistaken in making him an MP, but it's worth bringing up that error since it might appear elsewhere & should be dealt with. (If anything, more thoroughly. Where'd they get the idea?) — Llywelyn II   15:02, 30 July 2015 (UTC)

Kindly take it to the talk page after reviewing and. The EB9 more than qualifies as source for a 18th-century literary figure. They do seem to have been mistaken in naming him as an MP, but that mistake itself is worth noting. (There seems to be more to it: they go into the detail that his father-in-law purportedly bankrolled his campaign. That probably came from somewhere other than just the top of their heads.) If you have newer sources to replace the EB9 cites, by all means use them. But, no, you don't just revert 1k of sourced content without reason. Note some objections to the new content and have sources to replace them with; don't simply remove cites in favor of nothing or pretending the EB11 material was original. — Llywelyn II   15:07, 30 July 2015 (UTC)


 * EB1911 often reprints earlier articles. The fact that the 1878 article was replaced in 1911 is evidence of its unsatisfactory nature in the opinion of the EB editors. In addition, you make several editing errors. Your quoted source said 'competent', not 'considerable'. The 'public school' that was insultingly addressed was a department within the university, not an English public school at all. The rustication followed this address, not Anstey's resignation of his fellowship. You destroy the sequence of Anstey's first visit to Bath as a consequence of his illness by intruding the publication of the Latin translation, which happened two years later. EB1878 does not say the Guide was overshadowed by Humphrey Clinker, nor does any later source. 19th century references, Betjeman's knowledge of the Guide, and a new edition of the Guide in 2010, coupled with regular mention of his translation of Gray's Elegy, are all evidence that Anstey was and is still remembered. I will edit out all this uncritical and uncomprehending use of a poor source and, as you suggest, will transfer this discussion to the talk page. Mzilikazi1939 (talk) 15:40, 30 July 2015 (UTC)


 * Like LlywelynII, I wondered where the idea that Anstey had stood for parliament came from and decided to look up the very full memoir of Anstey's son John that is included in the bibliography here. There is no suggestion there that Anstey meant to represent Hertford, as alleged in EB1878. Instead it emerges that it was his friend and brother in law John Calvert who was MP for that town. The EB editor not only got it wrong but shows himself guilty of thoroughly slipshod research and untrustworthy. I presume he misread John Anstey's memoir; there is verbal evidence that the editors of both EB1911 and the writer of the entry in the Dictionary of National Biography used it also as a source. Mzilikazi1939 (talk) 13:28, 1 August 2015 (UTC)

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