Talk:Nicholas de Balmyle

Nicholas de Balmyle 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.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
February 7, 2008	Good article nominee	Listed

A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on January 11, 2008.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ...that Nicholas de Balmyle, former Chancellor of Scotland, became Bishop of Dunblane in 1307 when he was likely in his 70s, but nevertheless lived on to hold the position for at least another 12 years?

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GA review[edit]

GA review (see here for criteria)

It is reasonably well written.
a (prose): b (MoS):
The prose could stand some further work before the article is promoted much beyond GA. For example, the use of semicolons should be curtailed (there are three sentences in a row with semicolons at one point), and more caution should be utilized with commas. You may also want to reconsider the arrangement of headings. The entire article is a biography, so I don’t see any reason to designate that as a first-level heading.
It is factually accurate and verifiable.
a (references): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR):
It is broad in its coverage.
a (major aspects): b (focused):
It follows the neutral point of view policy.
Fair representation without bias:
It is stable.
No edit wars etc.:
It is illustrated by images, where possible and appropriate.
a (images are tagged and non-free images have fair use rationales): b (appropriate use with suitable captions):
Overall:
Pass/Fail:
I am placing the article on hold in the expectation that the problems mentioned above can be cleaned up. jackturner3 (talk) 15:21, 30 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Addressed the concerns. Hopefully to your satisfaction. Regards, Deacon of Pndapetzim (Talk) 01:12, 5 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Contradiction?[edit]

In the second paragraph of the section #Bishop of Dunblane, it is said that Nicholas witnessed a number of royal acts, the last one on 8 February 1319. However, the last paragraph of the same section says that his last appearance on an act took place one year earlier, on 8 February 1318. It may just be a typo, but I cannot check the references. (@Deacon of Pndapetzim: since you brought the article to GA status, I suppose you'd be the person to ask.) – Swa cwæð Ælfgar (talk) 22:17, 12 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I checked the ODNB and it appears to be a typo. I have made the correction. – Swa cwæð Ælfgar (talk) 09:59, 24 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]