Talk:Francis Xavier Morgan

Siblings, nickname
The article as it stands includes this sentence: "They had five children: Tomás, Isabel, Augusto and Francisco, who was familiarly known as Curro." This sentence is sourced to the "J. R. R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment," edited by Michael D. C. Drout, a reputable reference work used elsewhere in the article. (The citation gives the publication location as "Nueva York," probably a tell that this article includes material translated from Spanish Wikipedia, which indeed appears to have basically identical text, in Spanish.) There are problems with this. First, obviously, it says "five children," but then only lists four. Second, this information- the number and names of Morgan's siblings, and his nickname, "Curro"- is not in the cited source at all. The source is available on Google Books; the encyclopedia's entry focused on Morgan starts on p. 434. It says nothing about Morgan's siblings, and Google Books's search doesn't turn up any relevant results in the book for "Tomás," and no results at all for "Isabel" or "Augusto." Another source cited in the article, this reminiscence, refers to a "bachelor brother, Augustus," who is presumably identical to "Augusto," but there are no sources for the existence or names of the other siblings. The nickname "Curro" also occurs nowhere in the text of the cited source. It seems to be legitimate, and was used in the title of a recent biography of Morgan, but doesn't appear in the sources otherwise. Anyway, I'm removing this sentence, and leaving this here as an explanation of why. An editor with access to that biography could probably flesh out and properly cite this section. Yspaddadenpenkawr (talk) 19:38, 22 October 2022 (UTC)