Talk:Alexander of Lincoln

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October 25, 2009	Good article nominee	Listed
January 16, 2010	Peer review	Reviewed
December 27, 2010	Featured article candidate	Promoted
A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on October 7, 2009. The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that medieval English bishop Alexander of Lincoln* was patron of the chronicler Geoffrey of Monmouth, who dedicated his* Prophecies of Merlin to the bishop?
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GA Review

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Reviewer: Pyrotec (talk) 10:41, 25 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Starting review. Pyrotec (talk) 10:41, 25 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Overall summary

GA review – see WP:WIAGA for criteria

A interesting, well-referenced article.

Is it reasonably well written?
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B. MoS compliance:
Is it factually accurate and verifiable?
A. References to sources:
well-referenced.

B. Citation of reliable sources where necessary:
well-referenced.

C. No original research:
Is it broad in its coverage?
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Is it neutral?
Fair representation without bias:
Is it stable?
No edit wars, etc:
Does it contain images to illustrate the topic?
A. Images are copyright tagged, and non-free images have fair use rationales:

B. Images are provided where possible and appropriate, with suitable captions:
Overall:
Pass or Fail:

A well-written article that was easy to review. Congratulations on the qulity of the article, I'm awarding GA-status. Pyrotec (talk) 16:15, 25 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Lead image

The current lead image

A more detailed better coloured alternative?

I realise it's not of prime importance to the article, but the current lead image is a bit... washed out. A quick look through flickr showed some interesting alternatives; I've only uploaded one to commons (on the right) but there are more images both on commons and flickr. Nev1 (talk) 23:12, 21 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Christina of Markyate

What does it mean that Alexander consecrated her as a hermit? Also I see that neither the articles Christina of Markyate or Markyate Priory mention Alexander. Dudley Miles 18:42, 30 June 2011 (UTC)

In that time, if someone took vows to be a hermit, sometimes they'd have the local bishop do a ceremony to mark the taking of the vows. As to why the other two articles don't mention it, it's because I'm not working on either of those articles. Someone is of course welcome to take the information from here (along with the source!) and put it in those articles. Ealdgyth - Talk 18:55, 30 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I did not realise that the word consecrate could be used in that wider sense. Dudley Miles 20:02, 30 June 2011 (UTC)