Talk:Geoffrey Blackburn

Notability
Yes, I must admit that this article is possibly borderline. I do think it qualifies under the reception of significant awards and honours (e.g. the Blackburn Library) and I think Blackburn is part of the enduring historical record of Australian Baptists - but I will need to obtain Ken Manley's From Woolloomooloo to 'Eternity': A History of Australian Baptists in order to get more references. So I'm deleting the but realise that more work is to be done. StAnselm 01:26, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Having said that, I notice that "the existence of a memorial (e.g., a named chair at a university) is not a substitute for depth of content in published work". StAnselm 01:32, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

Notability 2
As I wrote on St Anselm's talk page, put me down as someone who knows Dr Geoffrey Blackburn personally and am surprised - even from the material St Anselm has included in the article about him - that anyone would doubt his notability. As St Anselm wrote, he's one of the half dozen best-known people in his denomination. And is known, I think, worldwide because ot his status in the Baptist World Alliance (if I recall I read somewhere he was a world vice-president). There's a joke around Presbyterian and Baptist circles among clergy that they want 'Geoff' as they call him affectionately to conduct their funerals (he's 90-something and still in active ministry with Scots' Church, Melbourne!). I'll revisit the article and see if I can do a little bit of extra work on it. You can contact me here Ron Cameron


 * OK, dunno what prompted me to come back here. I turned one of the inline weblinks into an actual citation. Having a book review include the text Among Australian Baptists, he would be among the four 'most admired'  is pretty cut and dried. I assume that the opinion of Rowland Croucher is worth something, but his article isn't all that great either.Garrie 22:15, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

External links modified
Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified 2 external links on Geoffrey Blackburn. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20070206031530/http://www.bwa-baptist-heritage.org/bua-lst.htm to http://www.bwa-baptist-heritage.org/bua-lst.htm
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20070709043927/http://www.bwa-baptist-heritage.org/bwa-ab.htm to http://www.bwa-baptist-heritage.org/bwa-ab.htm
 * Added tag to http://whitley.unimelb.edu.au/tribute-geoffrey-blackburn

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

Cheers.— InternetArchiveBot  (Report bug) 01:30, 13 October 2017 (UTC)