Talk:James Hervey Price

A fact from James Hervey Price appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 9 August 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that James Hervey Price (pictured) renamed the town of Saugeen to Southampton?

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The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Kingsif (talk) 18:16, 4 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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James Hervey Price, pictured in 1848

... that James Hervey Price (pictured) built a house that resembled his childhood home north of Toronto? Source: "...he built a house in the style of the home where he had been born and called it 'Castlefield'" ([1])
- ALT1:... that James Hervey Price (pictured) refused to deliver lieutenant governor Francis Bond Head's truce to reformers during the Upper Canada Rebellion? Source: "The next day William Botsford Jarvis asked Price to carry Head’s message under a flag of truce but Price refused," ([2])
- ALT2:... that James Hervey Price (pictured) renamed the town of Saugeen to Southampton? Source: "Southampton...was first called Saugeen in 1851. Later that year, James Hervey Price...named it after the seaport city on England's south coast." ([3])

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Mirror (group)

5x expanded by Z1720 (talk). Self-nominated at 16:50, 25 June 2021 (UTC).[reply]

Article was 5x expanded (1282 -> 6593 readable prose), is neutral, and well sourced. No significant problems detected by earwig; there's a few phrases duplicated from biographi.ca/en/bio/price_james_hervey_11E.html, but most are unavoidable (names of things), and the rest are short enough not to be of concern). Any of the hooks seem acceptable, but the first is the best. QPQ done. Image is PD and works fine at 100x100. -- RoySmith (talk) 03:35, 17 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Z1720, would you be okay with a tweak to your hook? Right now, it sounds like his childhood home was north of Toronto. How about "... that James Hervey Price (pictured) built a house called Castlefield north of Toronto that resembled his English childhood home? MeegsC (talk) 18:06, 27 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@MeegsC: yes that's fine. Your wording is better. Z1720 (talk) 18:50, 27 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]