Talk:John McNeill (diplomat)

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Copyright problems[edit]

This article was created with indication that it was copied from the public domain DNB. Evaluation following from contributor copyright investigation (see investigation subpages) suggests it was in fact copied from later, copyrighted versions of that work. This contributor, unfortunately, can be verified to have several times fraudulently claimed the PD source when the copyrighted one was used.

I can verify that it duplicates the 2004 ODNB. I am not able to access the public domain DNB because the scanned version to which I refer is missing the relevant pages ([1]). However, a google book search matches only 2004: [2].

Unless this material can be verified to be public domain, the article will need to be rewritten or deleted. It will be revisited after a week to see what further steps may be appropriate. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 14:12, 9 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

After investigating, most of the text appears verbatim in the DNB00 (see s:Page:Dictionary of National Biography volume 35.djvu/255 and subsequent two pages). What isn't in the DNB00 has been removed on the assumption we're dealing with the ODNB derivative work. MLauba (talk) 13:27, 17 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Forbes & McNeill[edit]

Australian newspaper articles on David Sutherland (politician) have him working for the London merchants Forbes, McNeill & Co., of which Sir John Forbes and Sir John McNeill (mis-spelled McNeil in this article) were principals, then came to grief in the 1850s. Not mentioned in ODNB. Any further details? Doug butler (talk) 07:05, 28 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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flipp the seal[edit]

The image of McNeil's seal must be flipped horizontally Shams.payam (talk) 08:50, 30 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]