Talk:Michael Chisholm (geographer)

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Did you know... that geographer Michael Chisholm and contemporaries became known as "Caesar's Praetorian Guard", in reference to their teacher Gus Caesar?

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The result was: promoted by Crisco 1492 talk 00:46, 9 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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... that geographer Michael Chisholm and contemporaries became known as "Caesar's Praetorian Guard" as an irreverent reference to their teacher, Gus Caesar?

Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-gus-caesar-1600981.html

"Caesar had a hand in the careers of literally scores of young men (and through his supervision of Newnham and Girton geographers, young women) who were to go on to lead the subject in many British and Commonwealth universities. Dubbed irreverently "Caesar's Praetorian Guard", they came together in 1970 to write a festschrift volume"

ALT1: ... that Cambridge don Gus Caesar was so influential, that a group of his former students became known as "Caesar's Praetorian Guard"?

"Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-gus-caesar-1600981.html

"Caesar had a hand in the careers of literally scores of young men (and through his supervision of Newnham and Girton geographers, young women) who were to go on to lead the subject in many British and Commonwealth universities. Dubbed irreverently "Caesar's Praetorian Guard", they came together in 1970 to write a festschrift volume"

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/SDSS J0849+1114 ‎

Created by Chaiten1 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 9 past nominations.

Chaiten1 (talk) 07:04, 26 September 2024 (UTC).[reply]

I was initially very confused by this nomination: the link in the first hook went to the wrong Michael Chisholm! Article is new enough and long enough, and well sourced. I'm not sure that ALT1 is really eligible, as the article is specifically about Chisholm rather than the "praetorian guard", but ALT0 is interesting and checks out. I have made some copyedits to it, most notably changing the word "tutor" (an Oxford-ism, which has a different meaning at Cambridge) to "teacher" (the Cambridge-ism would be "supervisor", but that might be a little opaque). There are a couple of easy MoS fixes (dashes, capitalisation in references, removing page numbers from books listed as his works, three dots for ellipsis) which would be advisable before it hits the main page. QPQ ~~needs to be~~ is done. No evidence of copyvio, BLP or other serious concerns, and no images to check. UndercoverClassicist ^T·C 14:42, 28 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you UndercoverClassicist for catching the infelicities in the hook, and for comments; I have now fixed the MoS points you raise as well.Chaiten1 (talk) 16:06, 28 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you @UndercoverClassicist: - I just wonder if you could sign this off, if it's acceptable to you? Many thanksChaiten1 (talk) 14:30, 5 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Approved: I've done a few additional copyedits for MoS issues that were still outstanding. UndercoverClassicist ^T·C 14:51, 5 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]