Talk:Earl of Harrington

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FWIW, the page has been discussed as follows on the alt.talk.royalty USENET group.

>If you do a google search for "12 earl of harrington" you get a hand >>> full of results, eg: >>> http://www.pdaology.com/epedia/en/wikipedia/e/ea/earl_of_harrington.php >>> and >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_of_Harrington >>> But these seem to have the same source. >>> When was he, the 11th Earl, last known to be alive? >>> Could he have died in the last few months?

> >The Times noted his 82nd birthday on August 24, 2004. > >There's no point in trying to figure out whether he died since last August, >because the mistaken Wikipedia entry was originally written in February 2004. >In fact, if you look at the page's history, someone imperfectly removed the >erroneous reference to a 12th earl last November, but it was restored >a few months later by someone else, who knows why. > >The entry also says that the "12th earl" inherited the Stanhope of Mahon >viscountcy, but it was the 11th earl, in 1967. > >Another perfect illustration of the danger of Wikipedia. Not only is it filled >with mistakes, but trying to weed them out is pointless, and the mistakes are >quickly propagated (11 distinct sites now replicate this particular error).