Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Æthelwold ætheling/archive1

The following is an archived discussion of a featured article nomination. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.

The article was promoted by GrahamColm 04:09, 5 September 2014 [1].

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Æthelwold ætheling

Nominator(s): Dudley Miles (talk) 16:14, 16 August 2014 (UTC)

This article is about Æthelwold, who was the son of Alfred the Great's older brother, King Æthelred I. Æthelwold thus had a strong claim to the throne of Wessex. He rebelled after Alfred's death, but was killed at the Battle of the Holme. He has been described as "one of the 'Nearly Men' of early medieval Europe". Dudley Miles (talk) 16:14, 16 August 2014 (UTC)

Support – I had my say at the A class review in June. I commented at the time that I thought the article was of FA quality, and rereading it I remain of that opinion. Top-notch prose, comprehensive as far as a layman can judge, balanced, well illustrated, and referenced to a good range of sources. Clearly meets the FA criteria in my view. – Tim riley talk 11:18, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

Thanks very much. Dudley Miles (talk) 11:28, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

Support seems an excellent article and covers far more about Æthelwold than I was aware we knew. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 20:27, 22 August 2014 (UTC).

Many thanks. Dudley Miles (talk) 21:43, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

Support -- Recusing myself from coord duties here, like Tim I had my say (and tweaked some prose) at the A-Class Review. Having reviewed changes since then I'm happy to support for FA as well. Just one thing, I believe you're no longer citing Abels (2007) and Williams (1991a) -- which I noticed thanks to Ucucha's Harv error script -- so they should be removed from the reference list, or at least transferred to a Further Reading section. Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 01:18, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

Images - Only two, no issues. Graham Colm (talk) 10:26, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

Graham Colm - User:Nikkimaria checked images at A-Class and queried the lack of a source for the map, so I replaced it with an old one. User:P. S. Burton has now kindly replaced the old map with a better one. This is a derivative of a map which is based on one of 1910. I have added the source information to the new map, and hope this is now OK. Dudley Miles (talk) 10:12, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

Thanks very much to Ian and Graham. I have removed the sources no longer used. Dudley Miles (talk) 10:50, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

Comment: I see this already has three supports, so I'll just note that I copyedited the article per my copyediting disclaimer two months ago, and I made one small change (ground -> grounds). These are my edits. One "restrictive which" has been added since June; I don't generally put up a fight over those, but someone else might. - Dank (push to talk) 16:13, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

I assume you are referring to "Lavelle suggests that opposition came from the descendants of the faction which had sided with Edward at the Battle of the Holme". I have not come across the "restrictive which" before, but there is an interesting discussion here. As "which" sounds better to me, and many first rate writers use it in the same way, I would prefer to keep it. Dudley Miles (talk) 17:18, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

Not a problem. - Dank (push to talk) 17:23, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

Thanks Dank. Dudley Miles (talk) 16:10, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

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