Talk:William Paynel

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Review: March 9, 2022. (Reviewed version).

A fact from William Paynel appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 30 January 2014 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that William Paynel supported Matilda's claim to the English throne, despite her husband Geoffrey of Anjou having previously attacked William's castle?

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DYK nom..[edit]

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GA Review[edit]

This review is transcluded from Talk:William Paynel/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: Serial Number 54129 (talk · contribs) 15:09, 5 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

"I've been waiting for you, Billy Ray" :) great-granddaddy, etc., of one of these scroats I believe... SN54129 15:09, 5 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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The authors are mostly modern, well known in the scholarship and writing for respectable publishers.

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Earwig brings up noth9ng, neither does Google more generally.
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Usual suggestions. Ready to promote anyway.

Might be worth linking Anglo-Norman.
Also Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, and Normandy.
"when it was seized by" -- suggest "captured", avoid repeating "seized".
"of Stephen's reign from 1135 to 1154" -- I think you could lose the "from *1135" as it's implicit on Stephen's claiming the throne...up to you though.
You link Drax, but Drax Priory has an article too, if you want it.
SN54129 15:47, 8 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
- I think I got all these. I have realized I need to make charts to figure out who in all these noble families I've done and who still needs doing... Ealdgyth (talk) 19:13, 9 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  - Good work! Passing. SN54129 19:55, 9 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]