Talk:John Norton (journalist)

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In case anyone thinks this was plagiarized from http://www.wilsonsalmanac.com/book/jan25.html I affirm that I am the author of the original article at that external link. I give my permission for any text from that article to be added to this Wikipedia article. I also give permission for anyone to transpose to Wikipedia any of my copyright text from articles about people who are linked from my John Norton article. Alpheus 22:31, 1 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Details of life of Norton[edit]

¶ Not mentioned: Norton managed to get an interview with Queen Victoria in her declining years and accurately described her in print as "fat and flatulent" - for which he was criminally prosecuted for something akin to lese majeste. Sussmanbern (talk) 03:50, 3 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Original research[edit]

I have deleted the following The earliest occasion on which the word wowser appears in print in a newspaper in the National Library of Australia's Trove collection was in the Perth Sunday Times on 2 August 1903, on pages 1 and 10. It appeared on page 1 of the same newspaper on 30 August 1903. It seems not to have appeared in print before that time, but was common in that newspaper thereafter. It either travelled rapidly to W.A. and found fertile ground there, or it was originated in Western Australia. as it would appear to be original research & is in any event inaccurate - "Willoughby "Wowsers" Worried". Truth. 8 October 1899. p. 5. Retrieved 4 April 2021 – via Trove.

Megalomaniac[edit]

Does one "suffer from megalomania" ? Doug butler (talk) 22:55, 4 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]