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A fact from James MacLaine appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 17 January 2007. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that James MacLaine (pictured), known as the "Gentleman Highwayman", once robbed Horace Walpole?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2007/January.

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Hey!

What happened to the original article i started? Dammit you guys...at least leave SOMETHING...! 124.82.15.109 15:57, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

An article was deleted as a copyvio, as it looked almost identical to this. -- ALoan (Talk) 14:24, 22 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Unnecessarily florid

"However, in passing himself off as a young gentleman in search of another wealthy wife, he had neither the funds nor the habitude necessary to rise above the accompanying inducements to profligacy." - I mean, really! Plain English goes some way to providing a comprehensible article for those for whom English is not the first language, or simply for those not regularly engrossed in the thesaurus... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.145.166.41 (talk) 02:21, 25 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]