Talk:Short-lived ministry

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

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)

"Silly Little ministry"

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)

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)

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)

Google Books comes up with nothing published before 2014. ‑‑Neveselbert (talk · contribs · email) 22:20, 27 January 2023 (UTC)

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)