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A fact from Court of Minstrels appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 1 June 2020 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that a Court of Minstrels, led by a King of the Minstrels, regulated the trade of travelling musicians in parts of the medieval English Midlands?
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Overall: Hi Dumelow, this looks fine. In the edition of Moseley I checked the information was on page 77. Re the source for ALT1, see WP:SCHOLARSHIP, "Masters dissertations and theses are considered reliable only if they can be shown to have had significant scholarly influence", but I prefer ALT0 anyway. Good work. Gog the Mild (talk) 16:39, 15 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks Gog the Mild, I didn't know that about Masters theses. It's only cited four times and I won't object if someone wants to remove it, but there are few good sources on this topic and I was glad of a more modern source to balance out Mosley - Dumelow (talk) 16:44, 15 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Masters thesis: neither did I until it was pointed out to me in an early FAC. It can be a crying shame when useful, scholarly information which no one is questioning the accuracy of, has to be removed. Frankly I very much doubt it will be a problem below GA, and probably not until FAC. But I wanted to be clear to you and a the posting coordinator why I was rejecting ALT1 and even the possibility of adding "until the early 19th-century" to the end of ALT0. Gog the Mild (talk) 16:51, 15 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Any objections to changing the hook to Alt0b: ...that a Court of Minstrels, led by a King of the Minstrels, regulated the trade of travelling musicians in parts of the medieval English Midlands?