Talk:Rodney Barker
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The Conflict of Interest Issue
[edit]I rather suspect that the conflict of interest issue comes from my part in this article. Although I am associated with Gresham College (mentioned as one of Professor Barker's institutions), none of what I have written is either contentious or irrelevant to the Wikipedia project. I do not think that anything in the article is contentious or non-factual and Professor Barker is a leading British academic and so deserves a Wikipedia page - in the light of this, I'm not sure what could be held against this article. If anyone feels that I have been unfair or at all biased in this article, then please do change it, but as it is, I do not see any need for this the scare-warning of 'Conflict of Interest' which I feel has no factual basis in the actual content of the article. Jamesfranklingresham (talk) 14:11, 25 June 2009 (UTC)
The Citation Issue
[edit]I'm not sure why the request for citations has been added to this article: everything in it comes from the few webpages which were listed under 'references'. Listing the same few webpages alongside each and every fact or date in the article would have been needlessly repetitive and not at all helpful. Please do change it, if the current method is felt to be insufficient, but I do not think that this article at all lacks "additional citations for verification" and so I feel that the tag requesting it is misleading and incorrect. Jamesfranklingresham (talk) 14:18, 25 June 2009 (UTC)