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Why has an unregistered person (from merely an IP address) been DROPPING or abbreviating information and abbreviating that information from actual calendar dates, to years only? cf.President of Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society 1884–1916
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The newspaper article cited says that the body was awaiting burial three weeks after the January 8th death, but no record of the date of burial is found in the article. 134.174.140.111 ( talk) 19:30, 2 October 2014 (UTC)
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I may be in the minority here, but it seems to me that putting "Judge" in quotation marks implies that the sobriquet was in some way false or not legitimate, i.e. he wasn't a "real" judge. Regardless of time spent as a judge (by all accounts a one-time sitting) he was appointed as a judge and did serve in that role. Not even Penton, by no means a fan of Rutherford, calls him "Judge" Rutherford but instead refers to him as simply Judge Rutherford both in text and in the index. I have therefore been WP:BOLD and removed the " " from the two times it was used (and have simply removed the "Judge" part entirely from the picture as it is unnecessary). If anyone disagrees, I'll be happy to discuss it. Vyselink ( talk) 04:56, 16 September 2018 (UTC)
Rutherford later served for four years as public prosecutor for Boonville, Missouri. Still later, he served on occasion as a special judge in the Eighth Judicial Circuit Court of Missouri. That is why he came to be known as “Judge” Rutherford.
An editor added material in an exposé tone, which has been removed. 'Rev. Edward Lodge Curran', according to Time magazine in 1939, the "florid, bald, horn-voiced, hammer-handed president of the International Catholic Truth Society" [2] is not a remotely neutral source for discussion of Rutherford. The material in the unnecessarily long quote in the citation didn't seem to indicate that Rutherford's position as a lawyer was remarkably different to other lawyers during his early career, instead appealing to comparison with later standards asserted by Curran. It is not necessary for the article to elaborate on things Rutherford didn't do, and the article makes no attempt to claim that Rutherford had any education that he did not have. Similarly, the article already notes that Rutherford sat as a special judge and makes no claim that he was a Judge in a more official sense than was actually the case. His actual role as a 'judge' is quite clearly stated in the Law career subsection.-- Jeffro77 ( talk) 00:52, 5 June 2021 (UTC)
I also just noticed that my mobile device changed "Conley" to "Cobbler" in a previous edit summary. The fact remains that Rutherford was second president of the incorporated Watch Tower Society, which the article directly states.-- Jeffro77 ( talk) 01:02, 5 June 2021 (UTC)
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Why has an unregistered person (from merely an IP address) been DROPPING or abbreviating information and abbreviating that information from actual calendar dates, to years only? cf.President of Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society 1884–1916
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7. Overall: A few fixes are needed, but otherwise an excellent and interesting article.
The newspaper article cited says that the body was awaiting burial three weeks after the January 8th death, but no record of the date of burial is found in the article. 134.174.140.111 ( talk) 19:30, 2 October 2014 (UTC)
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I may be in the minority here, but it seems to me that putting "Judge" in quotation marks implies that the sobriquet was in some way false or not legitimate, i.e. he wasn't a "real" judge. Regardless of time spent as a judge (by all accounts a one-time sitting) he was appointed as a judge and did serve in that role. Not even Penton, by no means a fan of Rutherford, calls him "Judge" Rutherford but instead refers to him as simply Judge Rutherford both in text and in the index. I have therefore been WP:BOLD and removed the " " from the two times it was used (and have simply removed the "Judge" part entirely from the picture as it is unnecessary). If anyone disagrees, I'll be happy to discuss it. Vyselink ( talk) 04:56, 16 September 2018 (UTC)
Rutherford later served for four years as public prosecutor for Boonville, Missouri. Still later, he served on occasion as a special judge in the Eighth Judicial Circuit Court of Missouri. That is why he came to be known as “Judge” Rutherford.
An editor added material in an exposé tone, which has been removed. 'Rev. Edward Lodge Curran', according to Time magazine in 1939, the "florid, bald, horn-voiced, hammer-handed president of the International Catholic Truth Society" [2] is not a remotely neutral source for discussion of Rutherford. The material in the unnecessarily long quote in the citation didn't seem to indicate that Rutherford's position as a lawyer was remarkably different to other lawyers during his early career, instead appealing to comparison with later standards asserted by Curran. It is not necessary for the article to elaborate on things Rutherford didn't do, and the article makes no attempt to claim that Rutherford had any education that he did not have. Similarly, the article already notes that Rutherford sat as a special judge and makes no claim that he was a Judge in a more official sense than was actually the case. His actual role as a 'judge' is quite clearly stated in the Law career subsection.-- Jeffro77 ( talk) 00:52, 5 June 2021 (UTC)
I also just noticed that my mobile device changed "Conley" to "Cobbler" in a previous edit summary. The fact remains that Rutherford was second president of the incorporated Watch Tower Society, which the article directly states.-- Jeffro77 ( talk) 01:02, 5 June 2021 (UTC)