Template:Did you know nominations/Robert Corrigan
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The result was: promoted by Vaticidalprophet (talk) 13:47, 14 July 2021 (UTC)
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Robert Corrigan
- ... that a group of men killed Robert Corrigan because they did not like his decisions as judge at an agricultural fair? Source: "Corrigan was acting as judge for a class of animals and a decision he made aroused protest in the Irish clan. Seven or eight people armed with sticks suddenly broke away from the group and rushed Corrigan, who was savagely beaten and knocked to the ground. He was unable to get up and two days later he died." [1])
- ALT1:... that Robert Corrigan's body was escorted to a neighbouring town by 300 armed Protestants? Source: "he was told that he had to go to Leeds, where Corrigan’s body had been transported on 22 October, escorted along the Craig road by some 300 Protestants with rifles." ([2])
5x expanded by Z1720 (talk). Self-nominated at 23:35, 2 July 2021 (UTC).
Article was expanded sufficiently recently, and uses inline citations through the article except in the lead which is supported by the article text. I don't think that #3 mentions William Lyon Mackenzie commenting on the jury and judge, though. First hook is interesting, but I have a little doubt - was the decision the actual trigger, or merely a pretext to attack a Protestant? No evidence of copyvio or plagiarism as far as I can see. QPQ is OKish. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 08:12, 4 July 2021 (UTC)
- Jo-Jo Eumerus I changed the prose for ref 3 so that it more closely matches what the source says. For ALT0: the judging was probably the pretext to attack Corrigan because he was Protestant and Corrigan tried to start fights (both verbal and physical) with the Catholic population. Happy to strike or reword it. Z1720 (talk) 15:37, 4 July 2021 (UTC)
- The "probably" is a bit of a problem, I think. It sounds like WP:OR if you need to qualify your statements like that. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 08:45, 5 July 2021 (UTC)
- The Biographi source goes into lots of detail about how Corrigan was strongly disliked by the Irish-Catholic community of his town. The sources also states that the attack was influenced by their opinion on Corrigan; it says "His neighbours, therefore, were waiting for the chance to pick a fight with him, and the opportunity came at an agricultural fair on 17 Oct. 1855." So he was attacked because of his bad behaviour towards the community, and the judging of the fair was the trigger. Is there anything that needs to be clarified in either the article or this hook? Z1720 (talk) 12:46, 5 July 2021 (UTC)
Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 12:51, 5 July 2021 (UTC)
