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A fact from Elias Beckingham appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 21 May 2017 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that the 13th-century English royal justice Elias Beckingham was described as being one of only two honest judges in the kingdom?
Ideally we'd have a citation for the information on his sister?
Done- it was cobered by the ODNB ref; added info on her children.
Judicial career:
Instead of "during the King's absence in Gascony" ... can we say who the king was? We never are told what kings he's working for, which leads to a feeling that he's kinda floating out of touch with the rest of the kingdom.
Done
Relations:
"Abbey" or "abbey" - you use both in the first sentence of this section, and again later with the sentence starting "For example, in 1288..."
"when the Abbey found itself in dispute with the bishop of Lincoln and other" which bishop?
Done- replaced all with uppercase 'A'- but would it be a personal noun?
References:
We need more publication details on the work in which the Brand "Chief Justice" article appears
Done
The Maitland source is a reprint. I know this because Frederic William Maitland died in 1906 ... so he can't have published something in 2012. It would be helpful if the original publication date was included in the information.
Done Well spotted, today's trick question ;) bit of a naughty reprint on CUP's part really.
Settle on either giving the authors for references in the form "last name, first name" or "first name last name" - you do both.
Done
Image is good. I googled three random sentences and they only appeared on Wikipedia mirrors. Earwig's tool shows no sign of copyright violations.
I've put the article on hold for seven days to allow folks to address the issues I've brought up. Feel free to contact me on my talk page, or here with any concerns, and let me know one of those places when the issues have been addressed. If I may suggest that you strike out, check mark, or otherwise mark the items I've detailed, that will make it possible for me to see what's been addressed, and you can keep track of what's been done and what still needs to be worked on. Ealdgyth - Talk 14:31, 28 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Looks good, passing this now. And here I thought I was the only person editing on obscure English clergy.... Ealdgyth - Talk 16:00, 28 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Cheers, your health. What got me onto this chap was this; someone gave it candidature for the lamest infobox ever on Iridescent's talk. — O Fortuna semper crescis, aut decrescis 16:33, 28 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]
...he has been called, with only one other, "the only honest judge" of the time.
As I wrote earlier today on the DYK talk page (a hook for this article is in a prep area whose contents are scheduled to appear on the Main Page tomorrow), this is slightly odd; can more than one judge be called the only honest judge? Perhaps one contemporary or historian pronounced Beckingham the only honest judge and another contemporary or historian described a different judge thusly? What does the cited source actually say? --Dyspeptic skeptic (talk) 14:05, 20 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
