User talk:Ian.meth

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Monty Meth
Hi, I hope the article is more satisfactory now, while adhering to our encyclopaedic style (otherwise known as brief, neutral, and dull as ditchwater). (It was taken to a deletion discussion, which was then withdrawn, but nobody seems to have informed you.) Did he publish any more books or pamphlets? Are there any newspaper or magazine articles about him that I haven't been able to find? (I'm not in the UK and as you undoubtedly know, many things have not been digitised.) Along the same lines, can you add article titles and accurate dates to any of the reviews and other articles talking about his 2 pamphlets on race relations that I had to cite from Google snippet view? I'm thinking there may be a clipping archive :-D And is he ever known by his full first name, as in the Honours list; in which case it should be changed at the start of the article? Yngvadottir (talk) 23:55, 5 December 2020 (UTC)