Template:Did you know nominations/Likelike (wife of Kalanimoku)

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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 Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:16, 21 December 2016 (UTC)

Likelike (wife of Kalanimoku)

Likelike, engraving by J. Alphonse Pellion
Likelike, engraving by J. Alphonse Pellion
  • ... that Kalanimoku caused the death of his wife Likelike (pictured) and their son Lanihau with cannon fire outside their house?
    • ALT1:... that Likelike (pictured) and her son died of shock after her husband fired cannons outside their house?
    • ALT2:... that Kalanimoku fired so many cannons to celebrate the birth of his son, that he caused the death of his wife Likelike (pictured) and their son Lanihau?

Moved to mainspace by KAVEBEAR (talk). Self-nominated at 23:11, 21 November 2016 (UTC). Lua error: expandTemplate: template "y" does not exist.

  • Comment The phrase "indirectly killed" sounds clunky to me. Perhaps "caused the death of". Edwardx (talk) 01:03, 23 November 2016 (UTC)
  • I went ahead and changed it. I just didn't want to say directly "killed" so "caused the death" works as well. Does it need a second review or is change minuscule enough not to matter? --KAVEBEAR (talk) 02:11, 23 November 2016 (UTC)
  • Thanks KAVEBEAR. I concur with your reasoning, and have done the same for ALT2. No review needed - this is the sort of thing that should get tweaked later on anyway. Edwardx (talk) 10:16, 23 November 2016 (UTC)