Talk:Geoffrey Kirk

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A fact from Geoffrey Kirk appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 16 March 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Geoffrey Kirk captained a fishing boat before becoming a professor of ancient Greek at Cambridge University?

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I am told by people who studied with Geoffrey Kirk at Yale in the late 1960s that during this period he spent one semester at Yale each academic year, and one semester still back at Cambridge each academic year. Thus in the information box on the right hand side of the page, under "Academic work" and "Institutions", the first appointment at Trinity Hall, Cambridge should not end at 1965 but should extend through the period 1950-1970 (perhaps 1971?). 76.116.104.233 (talk) 16:08, 10 May 2021 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for pointing this out. I think it's best to get rid of the years all together because a) they're not usually included in these articles and b) they seem to be wrong, too. Best, Modussiccandi (talk) 16:13, 10 May 2021 (UTC)Reply

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