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I have replaced the aburd term "inappropriate" by a neutral term, when referring to McGonnagal. Please explain why this term was used in the first place. Peterlewis (talk) 08:51, 1 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Too much opinion used in describing McGonnagal's poems. The word popular was originally used to describe his poems, but that needs referencing. The second sentence stated that the Tay Bridge poem was classic, which again needs referencing, famous shouldn't be used as it's subjective, and then the phrase 'example of the genre', withour mentioning which genre that is. The word "inappropriate" may be opinion, but it is in no way absurd. FruitMonkey (talk) 09:32, 1 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
You have still not explained why the term is used at all. The genre is of course, popular ballads and poetry, often distributed at the time by handbills. That is a fact not an opinion, unless you want to challenege that too. The term used is a gross slur on the man, and quite unacceptable ina neutral text. Peterlewis (talk) 17:20, 1 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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In his Booklet "Governor Phillip in Retirement" (Edited George Mackaness, Review Publications Pty Ltd. Dubbo NSW Australia 1962) Frederick Chapman, whose mother, two brothers and a sister died in the wreck wrote as follows: "In December [1865] my mother opened out to my amazed eyes such a mass of diamonds as I had never seen before. This was the property which "Aunt Powell" had left or given to her niece my Great-Aunt Fanny, who at the age of ninety-one had given them to my mother, the wife of her nearest heir. Less than a month later (11th January 1866) the disastrous foundering of the S.S. London carried this collection to the depths of the Bay of Biscay. In that disaster perished my mother, my eldest and youngest brothers, my only sister, and many of our friends." — Preceding unsigned comment added by Georgehrosenberg (talk • contribs) 11:20, 14 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
