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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 PFHLai (talk) 08:10, 8 May 2016 (UTC)

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Mary, Queen of Hungary[edit]

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Mary, Queen of Hungary
Mary, Queen of Hungary

Improved to Good Article status by Borsoka (talk). Self-nominated at 02:10, 1 April 2016 (UTC).

Reopened, per discussion at WT:DYK. Age of twelve is not supported by the article (and only by some sources, others give 10 or 11). Fram (talk) 08:58, 14 April 2016 (UTC)

  • @Fram, The C of E, and Borsoka: She appears to have been crowned between age 11 and 12. I don't know about Hungary, but in many cultures ages are customarily rounded up, not down, which may help explain the discrepancy. This should be an easy fix, just change the hook to say "before the age of 12" instead of "at". -Zanhe (talk) 16:34, 14 April 2016 (UTC)
  • Thank you for your comments. Actually, I think she was twelve (an infant a day after his birth is not 0-year-old), but this info is not explicitly mentioned in the article. Borsoka (talk) 02:06, 15 April 2016 (UTC)
Let's not be specific about her age. A woman's age should be a secret, anyway.
What about the following hook? Borsoka (talk) 18:10, 17 April 2016 (UTC)
ALT : Date is confirmed by sources. 'Crowned "king"' is questionable. Engel, Ch. 12 says "Louis's throne passed to" Mary. I can't see Csukovits, which is the other citation. Women and Power in East Central Europe (Marianne Sághy, 1993, not cited in the article) states she was crowned "regina Hungariae", queen of Hungary.
ALT1 : Accept Hungarian source in good faith.
ALT2 : Supported by Engel.
ALT3 : This hook is awkward because the link to the DYK article is buried in the middle. Also, the specific wording of this hook is not supported in the text by citations, although the following facts are cited: "Upon Queen Elizabeth's request, Charles visited ... During the meeting, Blaise Forgách attacked the king..." Yes, he was almost certainly murdered at Elizabeth's instigation, but that's not explicitly stated and cited. I would recommend not using ALT3.
ALT4 : Much more readable, but suffers from the same citation issue as ALT3. If the text is edited to clearly cite this statement, it would be fine. Alternately, the following ALT5 would be a possibility:
Thank you for your review. For me, any solution is acceptable. Borsoka (talk) 14:43, 4 May 2016 (UTC)
  • New reviewer needed for ALT5, which I think is a much more interesting hook than ALT1 or ALT2. Per Mary Mark Ockerbloom's review, I have struck ALT3 and ALT4 as well as the revision of the original hook. BlueMoonset (talk) 16:28, 7 May 2016 (UTC)
  • ALT5 has an inline citation to an offline source and seems satisfactory to me. Rest of the review as per The C of E. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:38, 8 May 2016 (UTC)
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