Talk:Samuel Lyde

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A fact from Samuel Lyde appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 12 January 2013 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that 19th-century British missionary Samuel Lyde sparked months of anti-Christian rioting in Palestine after killing a beggar?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2013/January. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Samuel Lyde.

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Plausibility?

If the only (other) witnesses to his killing of the beggar all agreed that he had committed deliberate murder, and Lyde himself was known to be in a deranged mental state... then why do we believe his account of the death as a reaction to an accident? 66.180.185.97 (talk) 23:32, 12 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

WP:OR. The source cited gives two explanations without coming down on either side. In fact, the other source for the paragraph, Figes, positively says it was "accidental". No one knows what happened and who knows whether the women were telling the truth - there could have been any number of motivations. He became deranged after the incident. Let's just stick to what the sources say rather becoming Sherlock Holmes.DeCausa (talk) 08:16, 18 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Btw, this very point came up during the DYK nomination. See Template:Did you know nominations/Samuel Lyde for how it was resolved. DeCausa (talk) 20:29, 20 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]