Talk:William Douglas Cook

Date of death
I need to check his date of death again. Berry says:	27-4-1967 Clapperton: 	27-9-1967

Dick Bos (talk) 19:18, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

Not a common farmer
Responding to Dick Bos's request to review the English, the sentence "Douglas Cook has never been a common farmer" implies he is still something, and so still alive. Plain English would be "Douglas Cook was never a common farmer" but that has weaknesses, at least:


 * seems not WP:NPOV,
 * implies "a common farmer" is a bad thing to be, possibly invoking a negative meaning of the word common.

Perhaps "Douglas Cook did not see himself as an ordinary farmer", though that's just what the next sentence says, and could be left out; I'd tend to drop the the sentence and change the heading to "Not an ordinary farmer'.

Interesting, though. Society is the less if we forget such characters, and IMO Wikipedia is a good place to remember them.

Jlittlenz (talk) 00:13, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanx, I used your suggestion - Dick Bos (talk) 01:04, 18 February 2009 (UTC)