Talk:James Carlile

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Did you know... that James Carlile introduced an educational system in 1830s Ireland whereby children of different denominations could attend the same school?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2008/August.

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It appears that at least two elements in the material in the biography section are complete (but no doubt unintentional) misinterpretation of the original article writer's cited online sources. It appears highly unlikely that Carlile started a Purgatorian Society (almost certainly he merely reported on it from a critical perspective), and the material about Lord Castlereagh and the Belfast Academical Institution also appears to have certain facts reversed.

I have not checked the rest of the article, but it appears to need work done on it, and given the apparent seriousness of the misinterpretation it might be worth looking at the quality of interpretation in other material by the main contributor. I have not looked at any other of his/her work, he/she may just have been having a bad day/days when they did this one! --PeterR (talk) 23:55, 6 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I think the Purgatorian bit could safely be omitted and the other item rewritten but I don't really have the time right now; nor (at this stage) do I fully understand the matter being debated at the Presbyterian assembly.--PeterR (talk) 23:58, 6 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Changed "started" to "published".... cannot believe this took more time than adding the comment above Victuallers (talk) 10:12, 7 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]