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A fact from Alfred Beckley appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 7 June 2013 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
This (below) doesn't seem to be in any sources that I can find, but I could be missing something. I've removed the content for now pending sources. And anybody know where this comes from. Neville Beckley seems to have been a minister. Alfred doesn't seem to have been a physician, and no source that I see describes him as a philanthropist.(olive (talk) 15:26, 3 June 2013 (UTC))[reply]
"He was also a physician, Methodist preacher, and philanthropist."
I removed the sentence "He was also a physician, Methodist preacher, and philanthropist." I believe the only source for this information was the findagrave page for Gen. Beckley, which had the exact same sentence, and I do not know whether Wikipedia took the information from findagrave or vice versa. I persuaded findagrave to remove the sentence. Gen. Beckley's autobiography does not mention him being a physician or a preacher or a philanthropist. See my web page on Gen. Beckley, which includes his autobiography. [1]Jeff560 (talk) 01:27, 4 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]