Talk:List of philatelists

Name removal
This page includes the names of several people who are not known as philatelists or stamp collectors. Here are four, who have brief biographies which do not seem to mention stamps:

Pierre Langlois 1909-1990 - France Tadley (talk) 19:19, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Anatoly Karpov
 * Pierre Langlois

A pharmacist who undertook and published much research work on stamps and their cancellations, Langlois’ field included Ship Letters, the French Establishments in India and selected facets of Great Britain and Malta.

He made important collections which were displayed internationally. He was deeply involved in philately in France, being a member of the French National Congress and of numerous philatelic societies. He served as a Judge at several International Exhibitions including London 1970, Belgica 1972 and Stockholmia 1974. From 1971 until 1982 he was a member of the Board of Election for the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists.
 * Pierre Langlois (philatelist) now exists. Philafrenzy (talk) 22:06, 21 September 2012 (UTC)


 * James Lindsay, 26th Earl of CrawfordTadley (talk) 19:19, 21 September 2012 (UTC)

James Ludovic Lindsay FRS 1847-1913 - Great Britain

26th Earl of Crawford KT

Lord Crawford formed important collections of Great Britain and its Colonies, Egypt, the United States and the Italian States. He was given the major award at the 1906 Exhibition for his display of Great Britain. He was a great student and one of the first to attach importance to proofs, essays and artists’ drawings. His exceptional collection of philatelic literature was bequeathed to the British Museum (now the British Library) where it is still available. He was President of The Royal Philatelic Society, London 1910-1913.
 * There is no risk of Crawford disappearing! Philafrenzy (talk) 22:06, 21 September 2012 (UTC)


 * William Carlos Stone

The page also lists many people well known for their philatelic achievements. Nevertheless, we do not have an article to delineate their work. Among them:


 * Stanley B. Ashbrook
 * Robson Lowe

Follow-up note

We may have some basis for the listing of Karpov. He had a substantial topical collection of chess stamps. However, the Wikipedia article on Karpov does not say he was a philatelist, nor that he collected stamps.

A German website says Lindsay had a collection of philatelic literature, but no basis for that claim appears. Lindsay was known as a benefactor of astronomy, and he assembled a famous collection of literature about astronomy.

No evidence appears for Langlois or Stone.

I propose to remove Langlois, Lindsay and Stone for "lack of evidence" so to speak. We should follow the cautionary principle used in medicine, "First, do no harm."

A great number of the names on the list do not have a biographical notice in Wikipedia, and for these we need at least a stub. I will make an effort with those names most familiar to me, to provide at least a stub. {{unsigned|User:Fconaway}
 * As mentioned on my talk page all the above except Pierre Langlois have sources and are in the APS Hall of Fame, so deserve a link in the hopes of a future page. Do a decent Google search and you will come up with Karpov in a few of the first results if you include the word stamps. I already reverted the edit by Fconaway BTW, you really should sign all your talk edits. Thanks for the input. ww2censor 02:06, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
 * William Carlos Stone. Someone, perhaps a bot, connected the redlink to William Stone, in error.Fconaway (talk) 19:21, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

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