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WP Bio?

Unsure whether an auto- bio text as such should be considered part of the bio project? SatuSuro 07:20, 14 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]


Removed Australia project- as technically the autobiography deals with his life prior to moving to australia SatuSuro 07:24, 14 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Comment concerning citations is irrelevant - the book is probably not cited much elsewhere but the article is an extremely good and concise synopsis of the book. As can be confirmed by actually reading it... Peter R Hastings (talk) 17:21, 5 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

R100 & R101

If Shute's account is declared to be biased, it would be more convincing if one or two examples of the distortions were summarised. The crash of the R101 was a pretty unequivocal proof of mismanagement. 86.183.122.42 (talk) 17:46, 29 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I agree that (to me) this section indicates an unsubstantiated bias. RobinClay (talk) 23:56, 5 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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