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Article milestones Date Process Result May 14, 2008 WikiProject peer review Collaborated June 15, 2008 Peer review Reviewed September 13, 2008 Good article nominee Not listed March 10, 2010 Peer review Reviewed February 13, 2013 Good article nominee Not listed A fact from this article was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "On this day..." column on June 16, 2017. Current status: Former good article nominee

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The FRSA postnominal should be removed from the lede and infobox. There is no source for it in the article, and Smith could not have had this postnominal in his lifetime as the organisation only got the Royal title in 1908. (Royal_Society_of_Arts). Moreover, FRSA is not an honour but represents a membership that is open to a wide range of people by paying a subscription. Related discussion here. Historylikeyou (talk) 13:29, 4 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• WP:SOFIXIT Protonk (talk) 16:48, 4 September 2022 (UTC)[reply
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  OK done. Historylikeyou (talk) 20:00, 4 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I undid this removal of the FRSA postnominal. Consensus was not achieved at Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style/Biography.--SouthernNights (talk) 12:21, 25 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]