A fact from John Sands (journalist) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 13 October 2007. The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that when John Sands excavated a ~2,000 year old building on the remote Scottish island of St Kilda he unearthed tools that the 1877 residents recognised?
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Maclean could simply have made a mistake in thinking he was an MP, and Ancestry.com is not exactly a reliable source, but it is an odd co-incidence that someone writing 26 years later provides significant information that Maclean does not about the same fellow, whilst making the same mistake. This subject has been raised in various talk pages and portals including Wikipedia talk:WikiProject UK Parliament constituencies. Ben MacDui(Talk) 13:38, 7 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
