Talk:John I. Yellott

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The author's thanks to UKexpat for some fine editorial improvements.ElijahBosley (talk) 17:21, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

Reliable sources

Quick point on sources, generally speaking details from conversations with either the subject or third parties are not considered reliable sources for Wikipedia purposes. – ukexpat (talk) 17:30, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

OBE etc

The reason I questioned the OBE was that the honour is not usually awarded to those who are not citizens of the British Commonwealth - see OBE#Composition. So we will need a better source for this award than family recollection. – ukexpat (talk) 17:30, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

I have done some searching on the London Gazette, and there appear to be some references to Yellot there, but for some reason I am not able to read the PDFs on the site. So, I think we have some reliable sources that we can cite once we can read the PDFs. – ukexpat (talk) 17:50, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

Thanks UKexpat for your thoroughness. I looked up the London Gazette using the link you kindly provided, and the PDF of the 26 July 1984 issue notes " John I. Yellott MBE" as "Associate Commander (brother) of the "Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem." So I will fix the text accompanying footnote 21; as to the OBE it is quite possible that a widow talking to a solar scientist writing a tribute got either confused about the actual award and was referring to an MBE, or ahead of herself about its conferral, or the eulogist himself did not know the difference. I will keep looking until I have confirmed that one too. So far the London Gazette has John I. Yellott already sporting an MBE as far back as 1972 (when he was first inducted into the Order of St. John, as a Member-the 1984 entry was his promotion to Associate Commander), so that is what I will cite for now. But I would very much like to find the original MBE conferral. ElijahBosley (talk) 23:59, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

I'll keep looking too - but this does go to show the unreliability of personal recollections of family members! – ukexpat (talk) 00:30, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

Northrup reference

Thanks for a useful, informative sentence and link. I moved it up to an earlier paragraph discussing consulting work, where it seemed stylistically to fit better.ElijahBosley (talk) 15:12, 18 March 2010 (UTC)

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