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Good articleOliver Cromwell's head has been listed as one of the History good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.
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DateProcessResult
June 8, 2009Good article nomineeListed
Did You Know
A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on May 16, 2009.
The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that for over 20 years after his posthumous execution in 1661, Oliver Cromwell's head (pictured) stood on a spike outside Westminster Hall?
On this day...Facts from this article were featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "On this day..." column on January 30, 2011, January 30, 2014, January 30, 2017, January 30, 2020, January 30, 2021, and January 30, 2024.

"Harv warnings" and the references...

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If any of this page's watchers has Harv errors gadget/app enabled, you will know that this article has Harv warnings galore in the references. This is a good article and these problems should be fixed. Any watchers want to take this on? I just don't have the mental wherewithal right now to run the issues down. Cheers, Shearonink (talk) 18:04, 6 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Authenticity section is a bit confusing

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I'm finding difficult to track what is meant by "the head" versus "the Ashmolean head", and it seems that a fair bit of the information in the "19th and 20th centuries" section would be better placed in the "authenticity" section. I'm not sure I understand the facts of the case well enough to make revisions, but would one of the previous writers of this article consider clarification? I think a helpful first step would be to begin the "authenticity" section with a summary of all the heads under evaluation, with unique and consistent names given them. (Since if it's not clear if they are authentic, it's not clear if they are "the" head.) I can also do some research and give it a try myself. ~ L 🌸 (talk) 21:47, 16 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]