Talk:Peter Swales (historian)

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He was a player in the Freud Wars[edit]

And to me, that makes him of encyclopedic interest. NuclearWinner (talk) 00:29, 6 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

OK, I see your article asserted notability, congrats. Still, there's a lot to do. You may want to categorize and provide more references to your article. I'm going to tag it with some templates, but don't worry, for them will not lead to the deletion of your article. Those templates will warn users of what the article needs, so that they can help too. Victao lopes (talk) 01:10, 6 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Apparently false information[edit]

This article states that Peter Swales has written books. Swales has written numerous papers, but no books, at least not as far as I know. Skoojal (talk) 05:50, 6 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, Skoojal, I could not substantiate the books either. Thanks for pointing it out. NuclearWinner (talk) 00:59, 9 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

former assistant to the Rolling Stones[edit]

I understand that "former" is technically unnecessary, because, when you're dead, everything you've done is "former." But "former" was a quotation from the cited article, so I have reinstated it and included it in the quotation. Using "former" is important so that the sentence does not appear to equate Swales' lifelong and prominent work as a historian with his youthful work for the Rolling Stones. If the Rolling Stones were a less famous rock group, then Swales' work with them wouldn't even be worth mentioning.Maurice Magnus (talk) 10:06, 27 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]