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Honours

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I think there is a mistake here. If he were a "Knight of the Order of the British Empire" he would be KBE not OBE. I don't think he was a member of the Order of the British Empire at all. The title "Sir" can come from being a Knight Bachelor. There may be confusion with another Robin Day, designer of the polyprop chair, who is an OBE. Can anyone say for sure? 86.136.196.128 22:28, 3 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Robin Day furniture designer

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How come there is no entry for Robin Day the designer? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Greenhistory (talkcontribs) 21:39, 1 May 2007 (UTC).[reply]

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Media section / 2nd para

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Re: media section - 2nd para: "The interview turned Macmillan into a television personality......" should surely read "The interview turned Day into a television personality....." ?? Doesn't make sense otherwise - esp. with the next sentence beginning "He was on the staff of ITN for four years...." making it sound as if Macmillan was on the staff of ITN for 4 years. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A00:23C4:3D84:D900:9CE0:1770:F33:1D13 (talk) 18:39, 18 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Memoirs

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Article seems to have attracted the attentions of an anonymous clean-up maniac. Among recent deletions are the fact that he actually reached the rank of captain during the war, but got demoted, and the tale of how he secured the acquittal of a lorry driver on a charge of indecent exposure. Both are in his memoirs which I read many years ago. I don't have a copy to hand.Paulturtle (talk) 04:05, 2 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Infobox

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About 40% of the article infobox is devoted to Day's military service. The actual article only has one and a half sentences on this topic under Early Life, noting, he "[saw] little action." The infobox, by MOS:INFOBOX, is meant to be short and to summarise just the key information about Day. His military service appears to be a very small part of his biography, so I removed the infobox content. About half a year later, Alfred Noble 3141 has now re-added them, arguing "biographically speaking his military service details are relevant".

I remain of the view that Day's military service is a very minor part of his biography and, therefore, should not be making up a large part of the article infobox. The infobox documentation at Template:Infobox_person states, "Only use those parameters that convey essential or notable information about the subject". What do others think? Bondegezou (talk) 15:01, 22 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Alfred Noble 3141: some input from you would be useful. Bondegezou (talk) 12:11, 26 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]