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Removal of original research and more needs to be done

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A lot of this article looks like original research (WP:OR) (as at Sept 2019) but where individual statements are backed up by newspaper articles of the time, I think it's find to let them stand. A lot of statements backed up by a wordpress article require reliable published secondary or tertiary sources but don't look obviously wrong so I've left them. I have removed a bunch of speculation on the part of the previous authors of the article which I doubt will be backed up, including comments inside citations. Two things I removed which might be carefully reworked to a neutral encyclopaedic tone (WP:NPOV and not WP:OR) after careful checking follow:

  1. Her [Hannah's] brother, the Rev. John Playford, was not mentioned in the newspapers after 1848,[1] and may have returned to England. It is possible he died en route, which would make Marion King's (2003) statement at least partly true.[2]
  2. Advertisements for Ralph Drummond's church suggest Playford's arrival was around that date (1844).[3][4]

Cheers Donama (talk) 03:18, 6 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

References

  1. ^ "Advertising". South Australian Register. Vol. XII, , no. 873. South Australia. 27 September 1848. p. 2. Retrieved 17 March 2019 – via National Library of Australia.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link)
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference King2003 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ "Advertising". South Australian Register. South Australia. 30 November 1844. p. 2. Retrieved 26 March 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
  4. ^ "Local News". The South Australian. Vol. VII, , no. 583. South Australia. 17 December 1844. p. 3. Retrieved 26 March 2019 – via National Library of Australia.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link)