Talk:Eric Partridge

photographs of Eric Partridge

I have uploaded two photos of Partridge to WikiCommons, but even though I now have a nice fast computer, I am a bit baffled by the process of getting the them onto the page, so I am just noting this here in case anyone is bored and feels like adding either or both pictures to his entry. The photos are details from pictures I took with a box-camera in 1971 and I have placed no restrictions on the use of the uploaded images. g88keeper (talk) 01:04, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

Error in his time at Oxford

The article incorrectly says that Eric "became Queensland Travelling Fellow at Balliol College, Oxford,[6] where he worked on both an MA on eighteenth-century English romantic poetry, and a B.Litt in comparative literature". However, you cannot obtain an MA from Oxford or Cambridge that way: You must first graduate with a BA from Oxford and then seven years after you graduate you can apply for MA status. That's why Oxford and Cambridge MA's are always written "MA(Oxon)" or "MA(Cantab)", to disguish them from MA's by study at other universities. There's an article on that here at Wiki. He had to have been just studying for his B.Litt. which is a second Bachelors degree for people who want to specialize after their first, in an endeavor to gain access to a PhD/DPhil program ourside their bachelors field. As a result, OxBridge even now still does not offer an MA as a graduate qualification. - all taught graduate of arts programs are "MSt" - Master of Studies. Back then you could only do BPhil/B.Litt etc. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 162.199.182.88 (talk) 00:45, 2 October 2022 (UTC)

Citations and article expansion

After saving this message, I will save my latest edit to this article. Editors will see that I've begun adding citations and finding links to online versions of this fellow's works. I've also come across some useful critique of his work, which facilitates objectivity and to which I will refer at some later point in article development.

What prompted this message is the fact that I'm about to add a template. I have no desire to, or intention of, peppering the article with citation templates. However, where I find a citation for a sentence, but not for the preceding sentence/s, the addition of a citation template is necessary so that I and others know that the sentence in question still requires a source. In other words, used properly, such templates are useful tools. There is of course no gain in peppering the remainder of the article with templates because the mere existence of a body of text with no citations makes it a bit obvious that citations are needed! Wotnow (talk) 09:58, 31 August 2011 (UTC)