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Short description: Scottish classicist (1852–1901)
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A fact from Robert Alexander Neil appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 3 February 2024 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
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... that Sunday lunch with Robert Alexander Neil was called "the best intellectual thing in Cambridge"? Source: Robinson, Annabel (2002). The Life and Work of Jane Ellen Harrison. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199242337, p. 127
ALT1: ... that the classicist Robert Alexander Neil edited texts from ancient India as well as from ancient Greece? Source: Giles, Peter (1912b). "Neil, Robert Alexander" . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography, 1912 Supplement . Vol. 3. pp. 1–2; Zacher, Konrad (20 June 1903). "The Knights of Aristophanes Edited by Robert Alexander Neil". Berliner Philologische Wochenschrift [Berlin Philological Weekly] (in German). 23 (25). column 769.
ALT2: ... that despite placing top in his university class in Ancient Greek, the classicist Robert Alexander Neil initially decided to study medicine? Source: Giles, Peter (1912b). "Neil, Robert Alexander" . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography, 1912 Supplement . Vol. 3. p. 1.
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Overall: Assuming good faith on the source because I don't have access to the source; otherwise nice high-quality article. Generalissima (talk) 03:50, 19 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hi UC, Indeed, I too prefer BCE. I was simply eager to take him back 1,000 years! I hope my changes were okay and thank you for another interesting article. Regards, JennyOz (talk) 11:16, 3 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
As ever, greatly appreciated: I always look forward to seeing what I've missed when the article hits the front page. UndercoverClassicistT·C 11:24, 3 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Assuming good faith on the source because I don't have access to the source; otherwise nice high-quality article. Generalissima (talk) 03:50, 19 January 2024 (UTC)