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Reviewer: Sarastro1 (talk · contribs) 21:06, 26 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hmmm, this is an odd one. An article on Ricberht which effectively says that we don't know anything about him. I've been wrestling with this one for a while, and wondering if it can be a GA given it's brevity and lack of information. I even wonder if the article should exist, or be renamed as the death of Eorpwald, or merged into that article. But, as the chap's existence is as certain as anything can be from this period, and that historians have toyed with him a little, I think I have to agree that this article is necessary, and that it can be a GA (if only just!). It does a good job with limited material, but I have to say that the historians quoted look to be reaching a lot, and reading an awful lot into very little data (and this is a criticism of them, not of this article, which does what it needs to do, and does it well). I had a little dig into my (limited) sources, but found nothing on him at all except in Bede.

I'll place this on hold for now, but these should be easy enough to fix. Sarastro1 (talk) 21:29, 26 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]