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A fact from Luke Pope appeared on Wikipedia's
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Did you know... that English nurseryman Luke Pope claimed on his deathbed to have spent more than £3,000 (equivalent to over £250,000 in 2020) on tulip bulbs?
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... that English nurseryman Luke Pope(pictured) claimed on his deathbed in 1825 to have spent more than £3,000 on tulip bulbs? Source: "Provincial Nurseries: Warwickshire", The Gardener's Magazine, and Register of Rural and Domestic Improvement, Vol. VIII (1832), pp. 110-112 (p. 110).
Hi
Philafrenzy, always good to see articles relating to my home county! Review follows: article created 6 February; article is well written and exceeds minimum length; citations to reliable sources are inline throughout; I didn't find any issue with overly close paraphrasing from a check on a sample of sources; QPQ has been carried out; image is free and appropriately licensed; hook is interesting, mentioned in the article and checks out to source cited. Looks good. Just two minor comments that I won't hold up approval over: is it worth providing modern equivalents of the currency values using
Template:Inflation and something's wrong with this portion of a sentence in the Death and legacy section: "could inspect illustrations of the it in bloom" -
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10:45, 14 February 2022 (UTC)reply
Looks good
Philafrenzy, you could also convert the other currency values in the article if you like. I have seen equivalents given in other hooks, for the promoter the value would be: "(equivalent to £251,758 in 2020)", or rounded as you prefer -
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12:48, 14 February 2022 (UTC)reply
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A fact from Luke Pope appeared on Wikipedia's
Main Page in the Did you know column on 27 February 2022 (
check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that English nurseryman Luke Pope claimed on his deathbed to have spent more than £3,000 (equivalent to over £250,000 in 2020) on tulip bulbs?
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
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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.
... that English nurseryman Luke Pope(pictured) claimed on his deathbed in 1825 to have spent more than £3,000 on tulip bulbs? Source: "Provincial Nurseries: Warwickshire", The Gardener's Magazine, and Register of Rural and Domestic Improvement, Vol. VIII (1832), pp. 110-112 (p. 110).
Hi
Philafrenzy, always good to see articles relating to my home county! Review follows: article created 6 February; article is well written and exceeds minimum length; citations to reliable sources are inline throughout; I didn't find any issue with overly close paraphrasing from a check on a sample of sources; QPQ has been carried out; image is free and appropriately licensed; hook is interesting, mentioned in the article and checks out to source cited. Looks good. Just two minor comments that I won't hold up approval over: is it worth providing modern equivalents of the currency values using
Template:Inflation and something's wrong with this portion of a sentence in the Death and legacy section: "could inspect illustrations of the it in bloom" -
Dumelow (
talk)
10:45, 14 February 2022 (UTC)reply
Looks good
Philafrenzy, you could also convert the other currency values in the article if you like. I have seen equivalents given in other hooks, for the promoter the value would be: "(equivalent to £251,758 in 2020)", or rounded as you prefer -
Dumelow (
talk)
12:48, 14 February 2022 (UTC)reply