Talk:John Arbuthnott, 16th Viscount of Arbuthnott

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This article must adhere to the policy on biographies of living persons. Controversial material of any kind that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately, especially if potentially libelous. If such material is repeatedly inserted or there are other concerns relative to this policy, report it on the living persons biographies noticeboard.

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography. For more information, visit the project page.

Biography Portal

Start

This article has been rated as start-Class on the Project's quality scale. [FAQ]
(If you rated the article, please give a short summary at comments to explain the ratings and/or to identify the strengths and weaknesses.)

This article is supported by the Royalty and nobility work group.

This article is supported by WikiProject Peerage.

An appropriate infobox may need to be added to this article, or the current infobox may need to be updated. Please refer to the list of biography infoboxes for further information.

It is requested that a picture or pictures of this person be included in this article to improve its quality.

[edit] Questions

Doing general cleanup on all the Arbuthnots. I did not delete any information from this article. I had a few questions, though.

MA (after Gonville and Caius College) -- does this mean he earned a Master of Arts degree? I assumed that it did.
Why is he not Sir John? Or should he be? He is a Knight of the Thistle. Perhaps a Viscount does not prepend Sir when Knighted? Just wondering.
He is a Fellow of the surveyor's society. In the RISC article it says that members are admitted only by exam, so I assumed he is actually qualified as a surveyor and this is not an honorary membership. It doesn't say what the difference is between a regular Member and a Fellow -- is a Fellow highly qualified, or what? His other Fellowships seem to be honorary.
It says he has an LL.D, but doesn't say where he got it, no education listed after Gonville and Caius. It's not an honorary LL.D, is it?

Herostratus 18:24, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Information

Some editor (User:Mais oui!) added the notability template. The Lord High Commissioner is Her Majesty's representative in Scotland. There are only 13 Knights of the Thistle at any one time. The subject is obviously notable - one of the most notable living Scotsmen. I removed the tag as being ludicrous. - Kittybrewster 10:29, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

Calm down. The reason I put up that template is that the introduction, and really the whole article, makes zero effort to present why he is notable. It gives lots of awards and titles, but almost no actual information about his career whatsoever. It took me a couple of reads before I established that he is primarliy notable for being a soldier and a businessman (or so it would appear from the current text). Frankly, this article is currently nothing more than listcruft. Please write a half-decent introduction for the guy, if you do actually know why he is notable?

Please read WP:Notability. --Mais oui! 10:38, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org../../../j/o/h/Talk%7EJohn_Arbuthnott%2C_16th_Viscount_of_Arbuthnott_cedb.html"

Categories: Biography articles of living people | Royalty work group articles | Wikipedia requested photographs of royalty and nobility | Start-Class biography (royalty) articles | Unknown-priority biography (royalty) articles | Royalty and nobility work group articles needing infoboxes | Peerage work group articles | Wikipedia requested photographs of peers | Start-Class biography (peerage) articles | Unknown-priority biography (peerage) articles | Peerage work group articles needing infoboxes | Biography articles needing infoboxes | Start-Class biography articles