Template:Did you know nominations/New Albion

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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:05, 4 May 2020 (UTC)

New Albion

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• ... that the 1579 New Albion claim by Sir Francis Drake was followed by settlement of the Roanoke Colony in 1584, and Jamestown, Virginia in 1607?
  • ALT1:... that after leaving his 1579 New Albion claim in California, Sir Francis Drake stopped at the Farallon Islands to hunt for seal meat?
  • ALT2:... that at New Albion, the Coast Miwok people honored Sir Francis Drake as if he were being proclaimed king?

• Comment: This is my third or fourth DYK nomination and first GA article nomination. All others have been new article's which I wrote. Not all nominations were published on the DYK page.

Improved to Good Article status by Hu Nhu (talk). Self-nominated at 00:50, 1 April 2020 (UTC).

• GA received 1 day before nomination. New enough, long enough, neutrally written, well referenced, no close paraphrasing seen in online sources. Images are freely licensed. I've struck ALT0 for not being so hooky, but ALT1 is very colorful and my preference. I piped to Sir Francis Drake as I, a native Californian, wasn't even aware that a famous Englishman had traveled so far. Offline hook ref AGF and cited inline. No QPQ necessary for nominator with less than 5 DYK credits. ALT1 good to go. Yoninah (talk) 23:49, 1 April 2020 (UTC)