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Revision as of 01:42, 28 October 2019 by imported>RebeccaGreen (Query re April Fool's Day)
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South Audley Street
- ... that the Queen briefly lived at 77 South Audley Street? Source: "Queen Caroline was at No. 77 for a short while on her return from Italy in 1820" (The London Encyclopedia 3rd edition, 2008, p. 851)
- Reviewed: Bruce Tree
5x expanded by Ritchie333 (talk). Self-nominated at 11:19, 26 October 2019 (UTC).
- Comment: the Queen is misleading to readers, and therefore fails accuracy. Caroline of Brunswick was certainly a queen (or queen consort), but readers wouldn't associate her with the Queen. Methinks the self-nomination might have more to do with a reversal of an unopposed year-old merge proposal on South Audley Street. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Klbrain (talk • contribs)
- "the Queen is misleading to readers" - well yes, that's the point of a hook, to drag readers in and look at the article. See Template:Did you know nominations/Trump Street and Template:Did you know nominations/A719 road for other "hookiness" of this nature (often endorsed by Template:U). It is factually correct to call her the Queen as at the time of her return from Italy to London in 1820, Caroline was Queen Consort in law, even though George hated her and tried his best to kick her out of his coronation. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 10:09, 27 October 2019 (UTC)
- Let's see: 2014 prose bytes, expanded just today, no copyvios detected, AGF the offline sources, article is neutral, sufficient inline citations. If we can use a more accurate hook like this:
- ALT1: ... that a queen briefly lived at 77 South Audley Street? Source: "Queen Caroline was at No. 77 for a short while on her return from Italy in 1820" (The London Encyclopedia 3rd edition, 2008, p. 851)
With that, good to go! ミラP 02:04, 27 October 2019 (UTC)
- Would the original hook be the kind of thing that is suitable for April Fool's Day? I haven't noticed DYK on April 1 up to now, so it's new to me - just seemed possibly the kind of thing that is true but not what readers will think it means. RebeccaGreen (talk) 01:42, 28 October 2019 (UTC)