User talk:Theaussieeditor

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Explaining my revert and Edit summary should not be necessary. Only an idiot would try three times to add something that at least two other editors had rejected, with polite Edit summaries. Take it to the Talk page. HiLo48 (talk) 06:01, 13 April 2012 (UTC)


 * You may also find it valuable to look at this list of Australians with Honorary Doctorates. Can you imagine Dr Shane Warne, Dr Slim Dusty or Dr John Eales? HiLo48 (talk) 06:28, 13 April 2012 (UTC)

FWIW, it's not really accurate to say that a honorary doctorate "entitles" anybody to be known as "Doctor X". Anybody at all is entitled to call themselves "Doctor X"; there's no legal restriction on use of the title, except where it'd be part of some other illegal act (e.g. practising medicine without a license). But it's rare for anybody to style themselves "Doctor" on the strength of a honorary degree; some people do do it but it's the exception rather than the rule.

As that link notes, many universities advise against styling oneself "Doctor" on the strength of a honorary degree; I don't know whether JH's is among them. For that matter, a lot of folk with "real" doctorates - myself included - avoid standing on them except when they're relevant; it feels a bit gauche. Unless there are a significant number of people who actually call JH "Doctor", it shouldn't be used in the article. --GenericBob (talk) 07:57, 13 April 2012 (UTC)