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Consistency about the "Two Days" & "Four Days" Prime Ministers

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Please see Talk:List of Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom#The Two Days & Four Days Prime Ministers for discussion about consistency on how to handle the events of February 1746 and June 1757 on the various lists on ministers and ministries. Timrollpickering 22:43, 8 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

"Silly Little ministry"

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Did a quick search for "Silly little ministry" and only got results for the Ministry of Silly Walks from Monty Python. However, it may appear in non-digitised sources. Can somebody find a source for this? The claim that it is sometimes called the "Silly Little ministry" was made in this edit. Tim O'Doherty (talk) 16:07, 27 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I googled it as well, and all results that seem WP:RS are dated after 2014, when that edit was made. This may be a WP:HOAX that recent sources appear to have taken as fact based on that edit. ‑‑Neveselbert (talk · contribs · email) 21:05, 27 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Ok. Maybe sources do exist in books and such not published online. However, since we don't have a source as of now, and ideally every statement on Wikipedia should be backed up by a citation, I'm going to remove it. Tim O'Doherty (talk) 22:17, 27 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Google Books comes up with nothing published before 2014. ‑‑Neveselbert (talk · contribs · email) 22:20, 27 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Also, the edit summary for adding the claim was "Just replicating what's on Prime Minister of the United Kingdom". The revision of that article at that time was this one. I read it and found nothing. This to me looks like adding something wrong intentionally and putting a deceptive edit summary on it as vandals often do. Tim O'Doherty (talk) 22:38, 27 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]