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The Times from the 70s as a Source?

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The article has two rather strange sources as evidence for the following two sentences:

Parker attended Queen Elizabeth's Hospital, Bristol [1] and in 1978 graduated with a Class II degree in Natural Sciences from University of Oxford.[2]

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Both are Times papers from the 70s. In theory verifiable, but in practice not really. No run-of-the-mill Wiki editor would dig so deep to verify the school of a low-importance Wiki bio. Is the author of at least part of this article the subject of the article violating WP:COIEDIT? Micronor (talk) 14:36, 26 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

  1. ^ "The Times", 31 December 1974, page 14,
  2. ^ "The Times", 11 July 1978, page 16