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Hi UC, Indeed, I too prefer BCE. I was simply eager to take him back 1,000 years! I hope my changes were okay and thank you for another interesting article. Regards, JennyOz ( talk) 11:16, 3 February 2024 (UTC)
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Nominator: UndercoverClassicist ( talk · contribs) 10:22, 1 April 2024 (UTC)
Reviewer: Kusma ( talk · contribs) 10:09, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
Will review this one soon. —
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Lead:
He graduated with a First, scoring the university's second-highest mark in tripos, in 1876.
Early life and education
At the beginning of the nineteenth century, Scotland's five university colleges had about 3,000 students between them. They had no entrance exam, students typically entered at ages of 15 or 16, attended for as little as two years, chose which lectures to attend and left without qualifications. It goes on to say that this system was reformed in the 1890s, but it sounds as if Neil would have been unusually young if not shockingly so. None of his biographers saw fit to draw any real attention to it, which suggests that he wasn't considered a prodigy simply for going to university at that age. UndercoverClassicist T· C 16:11, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
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Assessment, honours and legacy:
A fine biography of a scholar. There is only very little on his personal life, but I assume not much else is known? Do you know what Wace thought of his tutor? — Kusma ( talk) 14:26, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
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UndercoverClassicist
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C 16:31, 16 June 2024 (UTC)[Adam] formed a close friendship with the classical scholar and orientalist, Robert Alexander Neil ... after whom he would name his first son. UndercoverClassicist T· C 16:31, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
No major concerns. — Kusma ( talk) 15:08, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
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Done reviewing. Good work, not very much to do here. — Kusma ( talk) 15:18, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
Robert Alexander Neil has been listed as one of the
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A fact from Robert Alexander Neil appeared on Wikipedia's
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Did you know column on 3 February 2024 (
check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
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The result was: promoted by
AirshipJungleman29
talk 18:42, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
Moved to mainspace by UndercoverClassicist ( talk). Self-nominated at 12:53, 6 January 2024 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Robert Alexander Neil; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.
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Hi UC, Indeed, I too prefer BCE. I was simply eager to take him back 1,000 years! I hope my changes were okay and thank you for another interesting article. Regards, JennyOz ( talk) 11:16, 3 February 2024 (UTC)
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
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Nominator: UndercoverClassicist ( talk · contribs) 10:22, 1 April 2024 (UTC)
Reviewer: Kusma ( talk · contribs) 10:09, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
Will review this one soon. —
Kusma (
talk) 10:09, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
Lead:
He graduated with a First, scoring the university's second-highest mark in tripos, in 1876.
Early life and education
At the beginning of the nineteenth century, Scotland's five university colleges had about 3,000 students between them. They had no entrance exam, students typically entered at ages of 15 or 16, attended for as little as two years, chose which lectures to attend and left without qualifications. It goes on to say that this system was reformed in the 1890s, but it sounds as if Neil would have been unusually young if not shockingly so. None of his biographers saw fit to draw any real attention to it, which suggests that he wasn't considered a prodigy simply for going to university at that age. UndercoverClassicist T· C 16:11, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
Academic career:
Assessment, honours and legacy:
A fine biography of a scholar. There is only very little on his personal life, but I assume not much else is known? Do you know what Wace thought of his tutor? — Kusma ( talk) 14:26, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
Numbering from special:permanentlink/1229385303
|chapter=
to the content of |wslink=
, creating a broken link if you give the full link as the latter.
UndercoverClassicist
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C 16:31, 16 June 2024 (UTC)[Adam] formed a close friendship with the classical scholar and orientalist, Robert Alexander Neil ... after whom he would name his first son. UndercoverClassicist T· C 16:31, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
No major concerns. — Kusma ( talk) 15:08, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
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Done reviewing. Good work, not very much to do here. — Kusma ( talk) 15:18, 16 June 2024 (UTC)