User talk:GrantTech

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LynxTufts welcome message query
Thank you for your welcome message and the information regarding the additions that I made to the James Fullarton Arnott page. I note that all the changes that I made have been removed.

I shall clearly need to read the guidelines but would ask a couple of questions now of you please.

First, James Fullarton Arnott was my father.

As this was my first edit, I was careful to avoid (I thought) contentious matters. The facts that I put on my edit, such as his marriage, where he lived and his son (me), are matters of public record. I am surprised, therefore, that they have been removed.

The text that I added as to his childhood holidays are true but not in any printed publication or any web site. How does one add information of this sort?

What I did not do, as this was my first WP edit, was to correct an error on the page as to his education. It states that he attended the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. This is incorrect. The drama course did not exist before 1950. (You can check this by looking at the Wikipedia entry for that establishment). It was started because the then principal felt that it was a logical and necessary additional to the teaching available. He asked my father to design the drama course, which he did. In addition to his teaching duties at Glasgow University, he taught classes at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, as it became known. He was involved in the development of the drama course for many years. This error may be in the source material for the entry. How do I correct something like that?

I shall add details of his publications at some stage. Presumably ISBN numbers count as sufficient reference?

GrantTech (talk) 00:26, 9 February 2018 (UTC)


 * See WP:NOTTRUTH and WP:OR, and you'll see why edits were removed. Do also read WP:COI. Book refs - suggest use a cite book template - see Template:Cite book - so you add something like (in wikitext)


 * at the point you want the reference. Ron h jones (Talk) 00:41, 9 February 2018 (UTC)