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May 14, 2008	WikiProject peer review	Collaborated
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Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment[edit]

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 23 August 2018 and 13 December 2018. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Jaredbawner.

Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT (talk) 16:52, 17 January 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Economic[edit]

The first book on economic written by adam Smith 27.34.104.170 (talk) 15:01, 25 May 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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Participate in the deletion discussion at the nomination page. —Community Tech bot (talk) 19:37, 28 August 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Please remove FRSA postnominal[edit]

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[reply]

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