Template:Did you know nominations/Bonville-Courtenay feud
- 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 Yoninah (talk) 22:49, 6 April 2017 (UTC)
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Bonville-Courtenay feud
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Plaque commemorating Radford's death in Devon.
... that during the Bonville-Courtenay feud, after the future earl of Devon's men murdered Nicholas Radford, they held a mock inquest, brought in a verdict of suicide, and crushed Radford's corpse with stones prepared for his own memorial....?Source: "You are strongly encouraged to quote the source text supporting each hook" (and [link] the source, or cite it briefly without using citation templates)ALT1:... that during the Bonville-Courtenay feud, when the earl of earl of Devon's men raided the house of Nicholas Radford, who they later murdered, they stole all his horses and the sheets off his invalid wife's bed...?Source: "You are strongly encouraged to quote the source text supporting each hook" (and [link] the source, or cite it briefly without using citation templates)
Improved to Good Article status by Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi (talk). Self-nominated at 18:27, 21 March 2017 (UTC).
- ALT3 ...that during the Bonville–Courtenay feud, the earl of Devon's men stole all Nicholas Radford's horses and the sheets off his invalid wife's bed?
- ALT4 ...that during the Bonville–Courtenay feud, Nicholas Radford' s murderers held a mock inquest and brought in a verdict of suicide before crushing his corpse with his own memorial stones?
- ALT3 and ALT4 can be accepted AGF. I don't have access to the print source cited in the article, but I was able to check that the information about the bedding (alt3), the mock inquest and the stones (alt4) are confirmed elsewhere: National Archives, SC 8/138/6864 Petition of John Radford to the King (SC 8: "Special Collections: Ancient Petitions to the King; to the King and Council; to the Council; to the Parliament; and the like")]. The History of Parliament entry for RADFORD, Nicholas confirms that bedding and six horses were taken, and that the wife was an invalid (alt3); also the "travesty of a coroner’s inquest" and crushing with stones. This source mentions the suicide verdict. (alt4). Mary Mark Ockerbloom (talk) 03:54, 30 March 2017 (UTC)
See paragraph above on confirmation of the alts. The article appears to have been nominated within a day of acceptance as a GA. QPQ has been completed. The article is generally well-written and well-sourced, and has no issues in terms of neutrality or copyvio. The one criticism I have, which is not a bar to passing DYK, is that there are a lot of extended sentence structures that become tricky to follow and could benefit from being repunctuated. ;-) I made a couple of minor changes where punctuation was inconsistent or where a word was used repeatedly in the same sentence. I believe this is good to go. Thanks for working on it! Mary Mark Ockerbloom (talk) 03:54, 30 March 2017 (UTC)
- @Mary Mark Ockerbloom: True dat; it has been said that some of my sentences are longer than the Kray twins' ;) — O Fortuna! Imperatrix mundi. 10:08, 30 March 2017 (UTC)
