Talk:Harriet Grote

Inaccuracies introduced
Please note that you have created problems with this article by your copy edit.

It is not the case that the ODNB reference gives the information on Mary Chaloner that is now supposed to be there. That information is in the old DNB reference. While your edit summary mentions "ref at sentence end where poss", with which I concur, it is not here possible.

To quote from WP:CITEFOOT:


 * The citation should be added close to the material it supports, offering text–source integrity. If a word or phrase is particularly contentious, an inline citation may be added next to that word or phrase within the sentence, but it is usually sufficient to add the citation to the end of the clause, sentence, or paragraph, so long as it's clear which source supports which part of the text."

So you have not respected WP:INTEGRITY here. See where it says:


 * Editors should exercise caution when rearranging or inserting material to ensure that text–source relationships are maintained.

I don't know whether you have ODNB access. If you do, you will see that on the marriage it says:


 * After being acquainted for five years and engaged for two, Harriet Lewin and George Grote eloped and married on 5 March 1820, since Grote's father refused to agree to a date for their marriage. Initially they resided at Stoke Newington, with another dwelling at the bank in Threadneedle Street in the City.

I believe my version is closer to that than your version.

Charles Matthews (talk) 07:23, 5 March 2021 (UTC)

Further, what you have done to the Peter Elmsley business is just wrong. It is alleged that in 1815 he lied about being engaged to Harriet. This is just too clumsy, and I'm reverting the whole edit. Charles Matthews (talk) 07:53, 5 March 2021 (UTC)

Marriage date
WikiTree states the marriage was in 1819. Could be checked since there are records online: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/collections/60636/?name=Harriet_Lewin has a singleton hit. Charles Matthews (talk) 15:45, 5 March 2021 (UTC)