Template:Did you know nominations/Statue of Oliver Cromwell, Westminster

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The result was: promoted by Hawkeye7 (talk) 23:36, 11 August 2012 (UTC)

Statue of Oliver Cromwell, Westminster

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... that in 2004, a group of Members of Parliament proposed to melt down the statue of Oliver Cromwell (pictured) which had stood outside the Houses of Parliament for 105 years?

Reviewed: Cody Meakin

Created/expanded by Miyagawa (talk). Self nom at 22:00, 2 August 2012 (UTC)

The article details that the building of the statue was controversial, but not why. Which were their reasons to oppose it? Cambalachero (talk) 13:05, 3 August 2012 (UTC)

Made some copyedits to it, but basically it was controversial because it was a statue of Oliver Cromwell - and at the time of its construction there were still MPs from what is now the Republic of Ireland in the House of Commons who quite furiously opposed anything to do with Cromwell because of what he did in Ireland. However he's also equally supported because of the powers that he gave to Parliament itself. Miyagawa (talk) 16:33, 3 August 2012 (UTC)

It is a good writing standard to "state the obvious" as if it wasn't, trying to avoid assuming that the reader is already aware of this or that thing. "Because it is a statue of Oliver Cromwell" assumes that the reader is familiar of who was Cromwell and what did he do; but a High School student or someone from another country may not know enough. Of course, we don't need long details, just a basic mention. Perhaps you can cite someone saying something in the lines "We oppose that Cromwell has a statue because..." Cambalachero (talk) 21:03, 4 August 2012 (UTC)

Added to the lead as suggested, I found that Cromwellian conquest of Ireland was a nice link to use. Miyagawa (talk) 23:10, 4 August 2012 (UTC)

Article is good to go now. I have fixed the link: "actions in Ireland" is too generic, "conquest of Ireland" can be understood better. It is also better to avoid acronyms as "MP" and use the full terms instead; I have fixed that one too. I have also fixed the license of the photo, adding the author of the statue itself as described in this article Cambalachero (talk) 01:09, 5 August 2012 (UTC)