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The following discussion 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  — Crisco 1492 (talk) 10:18, 19 January 2013 (UTC)

Lord William Hamilton[edit]

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Created by Surtsicna (talk). Self nom at 23:52, 12 January 2013 (UTC)

  • Date, length OK. Hook cited to offline source, AGF. Article well-referenced. But (my ignorance, and maybe others') I did not realise that Caroline of Ansbach was the Queen. So might it be better to amend the hook to:
  • ALT1 ... that Lord William Hamilton, Vice-Chamberlain to Queen Caroline of Ansbach, was so poor that she described him and his wife as "handsome beggars"?
  • I do not understand why the third word in the article is "Vane". Should it not be "Hamilton" to match the title?
  • Unrelated point: should not the ODNB reference be followed by ({{ODNBsub}})? --Peter I. Vardy (talk) 14:51, 16 January 2013 (UTC)
    • Silly me, I forgot to replace his wife's second husband's surname with his own surname. I've added the subscription needed template. As for the amended hook, it now suggests that Caroline was queen of Ansbach. How about:
    • ALT2 ... that Lord William Hamilton, Vice-Chamberlain to the British queen Caroline of Ansbach, was so poor that the she described him and his wife as "handsome beggars"?
    • ...Perhaps it's not necessary to specify his position at court and this might be enough:
    • ALT3 ... that Lord William Hamilton was so poor that the British queen Caroline of Ansbach described him and his wife as "handsome beggars"? Surtsicna (talk) 21:41, 16 January 2013 (UTC)
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