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The cited source for his autobiography allegedly being a "work of genius" (a website evidently connected to the article subject's father's art gallery) gives fully the quotation: "‘This is a work of genius, not since Kenneth Widmerpool has a character this good been created, I would love to know who the author really is. They have created this wonderful, idiotic, solipsistic shallow marvellous protagonist - it is a laugh a minute. More please we beg you, whomsoever you may be.’ This doesn't sound like a wholly unironic assessment of the work, given the adjectives employed referring to the author/ "protagonist"; Widmerpool is known to be one of the most ghastly creations of English literature (see his article). For an editor to alter the quote to endeavour to present the article subject in such a unilaterally favourable light- in fact, this whole article has an odour of vanity to it, honestly- and never to have edited anything else raises the suspicion of involvement, reverting a constructive change (including replacing citation of thepeerage.com- universally deprecated on Wikipedia- with the published source from which that information came) the very next day, as though close attention were being paid to this article by the subject/ someone connected. The IP address, per Wikipedia tools, originates in Hamburg, a city with which the article subject is connected as per the article.
Additionally, per the article edit history, numerous edits made by IP addresses using the same ISP, from the same location, suggesting, again, a connection with the article subject/ the article subject himself being responsible for said edits. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.145.168.38 (talk) 17:19, 27 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Further, quite interesting to note that the main source for the genealogical statements made about the article subject/ his family is one to which the article subject himself is listed as a "contributor"; the specific citation given for the family details is noted in his autobiography (see p. 4) to be the work of the article subject.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.145.168.38 (talk) 17:24, 27 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
