Template:Did you know nominations/Edward Henry Cooper
- 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: rejected by Hawkeye7 (talk) 21:50, 12 September 2014 (UTC)
Should the article ever become a Good Article, it can be renominated at that time.
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Edward Henry Cooper
[edit]- ... that Irish landlord Edward Henry Cooper was the last of six members of his family to be a Member of Parliament for County Sligo?
- ALT1:... that Irish politician Edward Henry Cooper owned a 30,000-acre estate in County Sligo?
- ALT2:... that when Irish politician Edward Henry Cooper stood for re-election in Sligo County in 1868, the army was deployed?
- Reviewed: Paul G. Risser
Created by BrownHairedGirl (talk). Self nominated at 18:36, 16 July 2014 (UTC).
Article is new enough, long enough, is written from a neutral point of view, and I didn't find any close paraphrasing from the public links. In general, the referencing is excellent, although there is one paragraph at the start of the "After Parliament" section with no reference given, and the claim that Sligo's MPs were generally drawn from the county's major landlords could also do with a reference.
- Regarding the hooks, I like the original hook, but the article doesn't explicitly state that he was the last member of his family to represent County Sligo and needs to do so if that is to be used. I also have a slight concern about ALT1, as the document used as a reference states that the estate consisted of 30,000 acres when sold by Cooper's grandson, but doesn't specify that it was the same size as in Cooper's time. However, ALT2 is good (subscription-only reference accepted in good faith), and is a good, attention-grabbing hook.
- With the minor attention to referencing, ALT2 will be good to go, and additional references could make the other hooks ready, too. Warofdreams talk 18:04, 22 July 2014 (UTC)
BrownHairedGirl has not edited on Wikipedia since August 13; she'd removed a wikibreak template on August 10, and I'd pinged her talk page on August 11 about this nomination. With any luck, she'll be back now that it's September. I hope she'll be back in the next week or so, as we can't keep this open indefinitely. BlueMoonset (talk) 00:12, 2 September 2014 (UTC)
The talk page ping I left on her talk page has been auto-archived after 30 days, and I can't in good conscience leave this open any longer. Should the article ever become a Good Article, it can be renominated at that time. BlueMoonset (talk) 02:24, 11 September 2014 (UTC)
