Sometime the stilted language is a dead give away.

It is. So what's your point?

1911 EB c&p, and unimproved in 5.5 years.

So that's supposed to be a surprise?

It is surprising because Wikipedia is crowdsourced, and crowdsourced things are always improving. But this article is not improving. Paradox.

That a single article has not yet improved is no paradox.

Ah - so all but one crowdsourced articles will be continuously improving. I am no longer surprised.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Boyle

An economist, a physicist and a mathematician go for a train ride in the Scottish country side. While they're going along, the economist looks out the window and then suddenly exclaims "ooh there's a black sheep out there, they have black sheep in Scotland!". The physicist twists his face in disdain, peeks out the window and says "correction, there is at least one sheep in Scotland which is black". The mathematician looks at both of them, sighs deeply and says "there exist at least one sheep in Scotland, at least one side of which is black".

An economist, a physicist, a mathematician and a pished Glaswegian go for a train ride in the Scottish country side. While they're going along, the economist looks out the window and then suddenly exclaims "ooh there's a black sheep out there, they have black sheep in Scotland!". The physicist twists his face in disdain, peeks out the window and says "correction, there is at least one sheep in Scotland which is black". The mathematician looks at both of them, sighs deeply and says "there exist at least one sheep in Scotland, at least one side of which is black". The pished Glaswegian says "Youse gobshite bawbags" and chins all three of them.

Even so I think we ought to give crowd sourcing credit for "The period of Boyle's residence was marked by the reactionary actions of the victorious parliamentarian forces".

I thought that you claimed to have some understanding of basic logic? Not much evidence of it here.

Good grief - even a pished Glaswegian, on a bad night in the Gorbals, can do better with invective that that!