Template:Did you know nominations/Midleton College
- 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 Cwmhiraeth (talk) 05:57, 14 May 2019 (UTC)
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Midleton College
[edit]- ... that the motto of Midleton College, Spartam nactus es, hanc exorna, is a mistranslation of a line from a Greek play by Euripides?
Source: Do You Know What Your School Motto Means? at independentschoolparent.com
- Reviewed: Sumedha
- Comment: New on redirect
Created by Moonraker (talk). Self-nominated at 03:06, 26 April 2019 (UTC).
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Policy compliance:
- Adequate sourcing:
- One stray uncited sentence, can be sourced or simply removed - Neutral:
- Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:
| Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation |
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| QPQ: Done. |
Overall: 
- I initially had concerns with a blog article being used as a source, but the blog's About page suggests Tony Harpur may be considered a subject-matter expert for sourcing purposes. Something like a book is still preferable as a source though.
- Lead section can be expanded but otherwise does not affect DYK eligibility
- Nominated one day late, but whatever
— feminist (talk) 03:56, 27 April 2019 (UTC)
- Thanks, feminist. Yes, I went through the same thought process with midletonwith1d, and as it's by a historian I thought it would do for now. It's actually the best online source there is, only the Trevor West book is better, and I don't have that to hand. I have taken out the uncited sentence, surprisingly I can't find a good source for it. Moonraker (talk) 04:44, 27 April 2019 (UTC)
