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Good articleAugvald has been listed as one of the Philosophy and religion good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.
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DateProcessResult
October 19, 2012Good article nomineeListed

GA Review

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This review is transcluded from Talk:Augvald/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: Malleus Fatuorum (talk · contribs) 17:12, 15 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Name

  • I've been doing a bit of copyediting as I've been looking through the article, which I hope you don't mind. I wasn't quite sure about this though: "... some have further speculated that Augvald might have been identical with Harald Agdekonge." On the presumption that what's being said here is that they might be the same person, could we not drop the rather strangely phrased "might have been identical with" and simply say "was"?
    • Done.

Background

  • "Augvald was originally based with his throne at an otherwise unknown location called "Roga" in "Jøsursheid". Not quite sure what this is trying to say, as knowing a name tells us nothing about a location, so why "otherwise unknown"?
    • Done.
  • "Historian P. A. Munch believed this to be somewhere in the mountains between Rogaland and Telemark, based on that he found a place called Jøsureid in Kviteseid in western Telemark. In what sense did he find the place? On a map? Archaeologically?

Aftermath

  • "Augvald's son Jøsur succeeded his father as king of Rogaland and parts of Hordaland". I can't but feel there's a bit of the story missing here. Ferking's just got the hump and eliminated Augvald in battle, yet he simply allows Augvald's son to carry on as normal?
    • Since Ferking was just a petty local king, he probably did not have the means or will to take over Augvald's large kingdom. Jøsur could thus easily have succeeded Augvald. As far as I can tell, the sources in any case don't describe this in details. Thhist (talk) 13:49, 16 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Family tree

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Assessment comment

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Short, only one section. Also lacking sources. ErikTheBikeMan (talk) 22:25, 20 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Last edited at 22:25, 20 September 2008 (UTC). Substituted at 08:37, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

Lead

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@89.8.176.190: we are approaching WP:3RR. I agree that etymological history is important, and I do not contest inclusion of it, but editing it where you are doing so results in a broken sentence. It also seems strange that we are introducing a topic by immediately describing another topic. My preference would be that we move this content (which seems arguably covered anyway) down to the 'Name' section, but I would not contest it being covered elsewhere in the lead. Best, Darren-M talk 13:00, 5 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]