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:I confess I'm a bit baffled as to how that equates to Irish... there's some discussion on [[User talk:Arniep]] about it, which suggests it's being used in an "American" style - a grandparent, a great-grandparent, who was Irish. The problem is that this doesn't map to conventional British usage very well - outside a couple of reasonably tightly defined communities, ethnicity / background in this regard is generally not noted by the second generation. (he said, speaking as a first-generation Scot) [[User:Shimgray|Shimgray]] | [[User talk:Shimgray|talk]] | 12:13, 11 November 2005 (UTC) |
:I confess I'm a bit baffled as to how that equates to Irish... there's some discussion on [[User talk:Arniep]] about it, which suggests it's being used in an "American" style - a grandparent, a great-grandparent, who was Irish. The problem is that this doesn't map to conventional British usage very well - outside a couple of reasonably tightly defined communities, ethnicity / background in this regard is generally not noted by the second generation. (he said, speaking as a first-generation Scot) [[User:Shimgray|Shimgray]] | [[User talk:Shimgray|talk]] | 12:13, 11 November 2005 (UTC) |
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Also, some people appear to be jumping to the conclusion that he has Irish ancestry because he's a Catholic, but he comes from the Highlands, where there are some pockets of indigenous non-Irish Catholics. [[User:PatGallacher|PatGallacher]] 12:20, 11 November 2005 (UTC) |
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Revision as of 12:20, 11 November 2005
Some Liberal Democrat appears to be consistently editing this page to ensure it contains no links to anybody who has anything critical to say about Kennedy. What are they afraid of?
Anybody knows if he has any relationship with Ted Kennedy or not?!
Have I got for news for you - Is this the correct title? -- Zoe
Yup. Not sure on the capitalization, so I figured best go all lowercase as per Wikipedia policy. IIRC on the opening sequence it's all in caps. It's a very popular programme in the UK. I would recommend it but I doubt non-brits would get much of the jokes -- Tarquin
- there's no question mark: see http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/profiles/angus_deayton.shtml
- But "FOR news FOR you"? -- Zoe
- You're right, the first FOR is incorrect, I've fixed the page. --Imran
How would people feel about moving this to Charles Kennedy, which is currently vacant?
I've been twenty pages deep on a Google search for "charles kennedy" and the vast majority of pages are about this man. Two other Charles Kennedys who might be of interest to Wikipedia eventually are:
- Pte Charles Thomas Kennedy VC (1876-1907), British soldier, Boer War hero.
- Charles Kennedy (1923-1997), British economist.
Does anybody know of any more? --rbrwr
PS: for the moment, I've made Charles Kennedy a redirect here --rbrwr
- I've added a small disambig page, just for completeness. I suspect a couple more will turn up, in the fullness of time. Shimgray 21:22, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Any way we can get a picture that doesn't look like a shot taken of a criminal through a grainy security video?
Template:LibDem would be perfect here. --SPUI (talk) 18:57, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Irish?
Can anyone supply a reference as to his "Irish" roots? Kennedy is both Scottish and Irish in origin. The only possible clue I see to Irish ancestry is his religion, but even that is highly dubious for any number of reasons. --MacRusgail 00:15, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
- Certainly no shortage of soft-spoken Scottish Catholics in that end of the world anyway... The edit summaries when the cat was added -
- (cur) (last) 10:58, 22 October 2005 Arniep (the irish british category is for people of irish descent in Great Britain, Kennedy is Catholic, his gf Irish)
- (cur) (last) 06:55, 22 October 2005 Mpntod (He's Scots - not Irish.)
- (cur) (last) 18:43, 21 October 2005 Arniep (added irish brit cat)
- I confess I'm a bit baffled as to how that equates to Irish... there's some discussion on User talk:Arniep about it, which suggests it's being used in an "American" style - a grandparent, a great-grandparent, who was Irish. The problem is that this doesn't map to conventional British usage very well - outside a couple of reasonably tightly defined communities, ethnicity / background in this regard is generally not noted by the second generation. (he said, speaking as a first-generation Scot) Shimgray | talk | 12:13, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
Also, some people appear to be jumping to the conclusion that he has Irish ancestry because he's a Catholic, but he comes from the Highlands, where there are some pockets of indigenous non-Irish Catholics. PatGallacher 12:20, 11 November 2005 (UTC)