Talk:Geoffrey Blackburn

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Yes, I must admit that this article is possibly borderline. I do think it qualifies under the reception of significant awards and honours (e.g. the Blackburn Library) and I think Blackburn is part of the enduring historical record of Australian Baptists - but I will need to obtain Ken Manley's From Woolloomooloo to 'Eternity': A History of Australian Baptists in order to get more references. So I'm deleting the {{prod}} but realise that more work is to be done. StAnselm 01:26, 30 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Having said that, I notice that "the existence of a memorial (e.g., a named chair at a university) is not a substitute for depth of content in published work". StAnselm 01:32, 30 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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As I wrote on St Anselm's talk page, put me down as someone who knows Dr Geoffrey Blackburn personally and am surprised - even from the material St Anselm has included in the article about him - that anyone would doubt his notability. As St Anselm wrote, he's one of the half dozen best-known people in his denomination. And is known, I think, worldwide because ot his status in the Baptist World Alliance (if I recall I read somewhere he was a world vice-president). There's a joke around Presbyterian and Baptist circles among clergy that they want 'Geoff' as they call him affectionately to conduct their funerals (he's 90-something and still in active ministry with Scots' Church, Melbourne!). I'll revisit the article and see if I can do a little bit of extra work on it. You can contact me here[1] Ron Cameron

OK, dunno what prompted me to come back here. I turned one of the inline weblinks into an actual citation. Having a book review include the text Among Australian Baptists, he would be among the four 'most admired' is pretty cut and dried. I assume that the opinion of Rowland Croucher is worth something, but his article isn't all that great either.Ga rr ie 22:15, 7 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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