The Sage of Stamford

The Sage of Stamford

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This user has been on Wikipedia for 16 years, 1 month and 23 days.

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This user has an academic degree in Classics.

This user is interested in Ancient Greece.

This user is interested in Ancient Rome.

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he or sheThis user considers the singular they to be substandard English usage.

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itiveThis user chooses never to split infinitives.

its & it'sThis user understands the difference between its and it's. So should you.

... in.Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which this user will not put.

outside  of.This User deplores the use of outside of when "outside" is a simple preposition and deletes the "of" whenever encountered.

whomThis user insists upon using whom wherever it is called for, and fixes the errors of whomever he sees.

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Majority ≠ right

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I have been editing as the Sage of Stamford since March 2008. My Wikipedia name was chosen a loose tribute to the Sage of Omaha, substituting an alliterative English placename.

Wikipedia Interests

Other than correcting grammatical solecisms and linguistic infelicities (which could occur in any article I alight upon) my main contributions to date relate to (i) academics, particularly classicists, of the University of Cambridge and related subject matter and (ii) Roman Catholic bishops and other clergy.

Articles created or substantially edited

Articles started or with major edits include:

Cambridge related

Classics

• Professor of Ancient History, Cambridge University
• Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy
• Laurence Professor of Classical Archaeology
• A. G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture
• Gladstone Professor of Greek (Classics, but not Cambridge)
• Reginald Hackforth
• W. K. C. Guthrie (major edit)
• Richard L. Hunter
• David Sedley
• A. A. Long (Classics, but not Cambridge)
• Perceval Maitland Laurence
• Robert Manuel Cook
• John Raven
• William Wyse
• Peter Giles
• Alfred Chilton Pearson
• Gilbert Austin Davies

History

• Professor of Medieval History
  • Holders of the above position:
    • Charles William Previté-Orton
    • C. R. Cheney
  • Succession and Information Boxes for all holders of the chair, plus general tidying of text of pre existing articles

Professorships

• Sheild Professor of Pharmacology
• Montague Burton Professor of Industrial Relations
• William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology
• Pitt Professor of American History and Institutions
• Hopkinson and Imperial Chemical Industries Professor of Applied Thermodynamics
• Smuts Professor of Commonwealth History
• Sheila Joan Smith Professor of Immunology

Other

• Marmaduke Sheild
• William Arthur Brown
• John Hilton
• Frank George Young
• Alexander Francis Kirkpatrick
• George Armitage Chase
• James Wood
• Valerie Pearl
• Anne Lonsdale
• Robert Forsyth Scott
• William Telfer
• Thomas Callan Hodson
• Stuart Alexander Donaldson
• Henry Palin Gurney
• Yorke Prize
• John Stewart of Rannoch Scholarship
• Categories created for the masters of each Cambridge college

Catholic related

• Ealing Abbey (major edit)
• Bernard Orchard
• Kevin John Dunn
• Frederick Walters
• Numerous minor edits

Miscellaneous

• Wren and Gurney
• W. N. Ashbee

Planned articles

I have articles in various stages of preparation on:

• Sir Frank Ezra Adcock, Professor of Ancient History, Cambridge University and Bletchly Park cryptanalyst
• John Crook, Professor of Ancient History, Cambridge University
• Arnold Lawrence, Laurence Professor of Classical Archaeology and brother of T. E. Lawrence
• Edward Miller, medieval historian
• W. W. Grave, Registrary and driving force in the establishment of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge
• Joseph William Hendren, last Vicar Apostolic of the Western District and first Bishop of Clifton

Articles for deletion

I successfully campaigned for the removal of the article on Nicky Blair, but failed in my campaign against his brother Euan Blair, although I continue to maintain that the arguments advanced in favour of retention are specious and contrary to the principles of Wikipedia; a battle to be resumed in due course.