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The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk10:23, 22 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Elizabeth Stuart
Elizabeth Stuart

Created by Moonraker (talk). Self-nominated at 07:19, 20 May 2020 (UTC).[reply]

  • Comment Nice article, but the hook should locate the house. And "ended her life" rather implies suicide, which I don't think was ever suspected. There are alternative hooks along the lines of "... that the bottom of the Q of B/Prince of Wales' garden is now in London's Chinatown/became a red light district?" Or "...that the Q of B was born in Scotland and died in Soho?" Johnbod (talk) 12:31, 20 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Either of these better imo, though I find:

hookier. Anyway, time for a proper review, which I wasn't doing. Johnbod (talk) 14:06, 27 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I am not keen on Alt3, Johnbod, at the time London meant the City of London and strictly no more. Moonraker (talk) 11:53, 29 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Johnbod (talk) 14:08, 27 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • @Moonraker: This interesting article is new enough and long enough. The image is in the public domain, the article is neutral and I detected no copyright issues. A QPQ has been done. Several hooks have been suggested, but none is very satisfactory; if you are going to mention the Scotland birthplace, I think it needs to be mentioned in the article, and I doubt the map being sufficient to source the Chinatown hook. You could vary the original hook by not using the quotation, or alternatively, I was interested in the fact that the Earl of Leicester needed "planning permission" before building the house. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:30, 21 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you, Cwmhiraeth. I see your point about the map, it may have been edited by the uploader to show Chinatown and if so is not a reliable source. I was focussing on Elizabeth Stuart because it’s such a good image, and we could drop her, but I still quite like the main hook, if we take out what Johnbod sees as a hint of suicide, and he is probably right. How about this? Moonraker (talk) 13:15, 21 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
    • Alt4 ... that a Queen of Bohemia (pictured) died in Westminster at Leicester House, shortly after moving in?
      Source: Allen (1829): "This house was for a short time the residence of Elizabeth, daughter of James I, the titular queen of Bohemia, who, on the 13th of February, 1661, here ended her unfortunate life."