Template:Did you know nominations/Crooked Billet
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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 07:16, 26 January 2019 (UTC)
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Crooked Billet
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that Crooked Billet, a London hamlet, may have been named for a pub or a military camp and the army's "rugged staff."Source: From Wakefield to Towton: The Wars of the Roses. p. 130. ISBN 9780850528251. Matthews, Tony (6 January 2009). "Crooked Billet".- ALT1:... that Crooked Billet, a London hamlet, contains a garden that was a site for one of Marconi's first radio transmitters. Source:"Crooked Billet".
- ALT2:... that Crooked Billet was the site of London's first house with electricity for illumination, boiling and ironing, and a telephone. Source: Id.
5x expanded by 7&6=thirteen (talk). 7&6=thirteen (☎) Self-nominated at 15:40, 7 January 2019 (UTC).
Interesting, on good sources, no copyvio obvious. I am sure the deletion discussion will end "keep", but we'll have to wait for that. - Suggestions: write a bit more lead, and start the body with a bit of location and history, not the properties. I am no friend of the term "can be found" which is only for those who can actually roam around there, no? - Now what is it precisely, an area? a suburb? a district? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:02, 8 January 2019 (UTC)
- Expanded lead some. I decided to call it a "hamlet" which is not just a play by Shakespeare. But the sources are really nonspecific as to whether it is a "district" or "place","area" or "corner." It could be called an 'environ'. Hard to describe. Words are sometimes imprecise. I should know, as that is how I make my living. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 17:21, 8 January 2019 (UTC)
thanks for explaining, - there could still be more lead, but you decide. - This can appear as soon as the deletion discussion is over. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:36, 8 January 2019 (UTC)
- At this point the deletion discussion is just silly. As I wrote the nominator, "Sometimes you get the bear, sometimes the bear gets you." He chose poorly. The article has developed inexorably and devastatingly. Nevertheless, he persisted. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 18:40, 8 January 2019 (UTC)
- Gerda Arendt I expanded the lead and the references. I also added a picture (which might be good if we can tie it into a hook). 7&6=thirteen (☎) 17:46, 10 January 2019 (UTC)
- You'd have to propose a new hook. Watching --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:53, 10 January 2019 (UTC)
- Article is kept! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:42, 12 January 2019 (UTC)
- Gerda Arendt I expanded the lead and the references. I also added a picture (which might be good if we can tie it into a hook). 7&6=thirteen (☎) 17:46, 10 January 2019 (UTC)
- At this point the deletion discussion is just silly. As I wrote the nominator, "Sometimes you get the bear, sometimes the bear gets you." He chose poorly. The article has developed inexorably and devastatingly. Nevertheless, he persisted. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 18:40, 8 January 2019 (UTC)
- Expanded lead some. I decided to call it a "hamlet" which is not just a play by Shakespeare. But the sources are really nonspecific as to whether it is a "district" or "place","area" or "corner." It could be called an 'environ'. Hard to describe. Words are sometimes imprecise. I should know, as that is how I make my living. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 17:21, 8 January 2019 (UTC)
