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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:34, 4 September 2018 (UTC)

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Godfrey's Cordial[edit]

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  • ...that one of the most popular infant-sedatives in Victorian Britain, Godfrey's Cordial, led to numerous cases of fatalities?

Created by Winged Blades of Godric (talk) and Andrew Davidson (talk). Nominated by Winged Blades of Godric (talk) at 14:21, 16 August 2018 (UTC).

  • ALT1 ...that a popular infant-sedatives in Victorian Britain, Godfrey's Cordial, led to numerous cases of fatalities?
  • -Article is new enough (created yesterday, 15 August 2018); easily long enough at nearly 3,200 chars; is neutral, well cited, and with no copyright issues (even the usual proper nouns, titles etc, oddly); Hook is well within character limit (~122 chars), accurate to the article, sourced, and definitely interesting (I for one wish we had a gallon of the stuff a few years ago—and I expect the eyes of parents to light up in hope around the globe on reading this...).
    For the specs, User:Winged Blades of Godric needs no QPQ, and Image is N/A. Which is a shame; haven't we got anything? I see Commons has File:At (Te)nnent's circulating-library Fleuron T161349-1.png, which appears to be an advert for Godfrey's original thing, at least according to the blurb. Fancy it?
    A very nice article and all parties involved are to be congratulated; I made a minor copyedit on my first trench run, feel free to revert as ever. Good to go wit ALT1, as, although only a minor tweak, the article doesn't actually say (unless I missed something, which is perfectly possible!) that it was the most popular, just that it was popular. Of course, if the sources themselves say that, the just tweak the article. Know what I mean?
    On a more local note, it makes things easier when the nominator adds the sources the hook uses, it saves slow brains such as myself from doing any work than I have to :) Just a heads-up for the future. —SerialNumber54129 paranoia /cheap sh*t room 15:43, 16 August 2018 (UTC)
  • ALT2 ...that a popular infant sedative in Victorian Britain, Godfrey's Cordial, led to numerous cases of fatalities?
  • Fixed typo; I don't believe that infant sedative should be hyphenated. Catrìona (talk) 15:56, 16 August 2018 (UTC)
  • Thank you for such a quick review:-)
  • As to reading pay-walled sources, you might fancy Sci-Hub but with due consideration of legal aspect(s) and all that stuff.
  • As to the image, I came across it but later choose to omit it, in light of the fact that it's pretty hard to read the image and the portion 1s. Godfrey's General Cordial, 6d. Friar's Balsam, 1s. Bateman's Pectoral Drops, 1s. Ladies black Sticking Plaister, 6d. Arquebusade Water, &c. has gone for a complete toss:-)
  • Your copy-editing was superb, as usual.I will try to take a peek at the aspect of most popular within the next few hours and at any case, Alt2 is quite good, as well.
  • As to sources, I ought to have inserted it.Actually, I was plainly following the guide of filling the template and choose to not add any source, since the guide did not mention it and I feared a botched-up template(:∯WBGconverse 16:44, 16 August 2018 (UTC)
  • Passing ALT2; I really think that creating a new (supposed) "Alternative" is really a waste of byteage, but if we have to cross Ts and dot Is, here we go  :) nice one, happy to spin this up to the front page. Congrats are due you both. —SerialNumber54129 paranoia /cheap sh*t room 14:05, 26 August 2018 (UTC)
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