Dudley Miles

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Æthelred the Unready

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story · music · places

Thank you today for the article, introduced: "This is the latest in my nominations of later Anglo-Saxon kings, and the largest in terms of sources, with three academic biographies published in the twenty-first century. Æthelred the Unready is not a highly regarded king, as his nickname implies, and his reign ended in catastrophe with the country on the verge of Danish conquest. but historians have partly rehabilitated his reputation over the past fifty years."! - and the next TFA around the corner ;) - I have a FAC open, in case of interest. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:12, 4 June 2026 (UTC)

update: Gott fähret auf mit Jauchzen, BWV 43 is now a FA. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:02, 10 June 2026 (UTC)

Gunhilde, possibly daughter of judith of Flanders, allegedly married to Wilfred the Hairy

I have moved this discussion to Talk:Judith of Flanders so that other people can contribute. Dudley Miles (talk) 09:22, 10 May 2026 (UTC)

Meurig ab Arthfael scheduled for TFA

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Thanks Z1720. The blurb looks fine to me. Dudley Miles (talk) 17:20, 29 May 2026 (UTC)

story · music · places

Thank you today for Meurig ab Arthfael, introduced as "a king in south-east Wales in the ninth century, but the extent of his territory is disputed by historians. Although little is known of him, he is mentioned in Asser's life of Alfred the Great, and he is described as one of the few kings who tried to protect the church against lawlessness and abuse of power."! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:54, 11 July 2026 (UTC)

Nomination of Thundersley Great Common for merging to Thundersley

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Thundersley Great Common is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be merged into Thundersley.

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Davidstewartharvey (talk) 11:49, 6 June 2026 (UTC)

FA review of Well-being

Hello Dudley Miles and congratulations on getting Æthelred the Unready to FA status a while back! I was wondering whether you may be interested in reviewing the article Well-being at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Well-being/archive1 since the article hasn't received enough reviews so far. Thank you for taking a look and please feel under no obligation if now is not a good time. Phlsph7 (talk) 08:07, 7 June 2026 (UTC)

Regarding Vikings - maturity vs majority

Apologies if my edit misinterpreted the cited material as I had presumed it to be a typo. While I couldn't find a way to access Makalösa kvinnor: könsöverskridare i myt och verklighet (nor can I read Swedish), I made the edit regardless as I couldn't think of any way the term "majority" would actually make any sense in this context.

If the original wording is indeed correct though, of which I'll defer to you on the matter, may I ask what reaching a "legal majority" means & if there's a clearer way to convey this meaning to the reader? Butterscotch Beluga (talk) 20:59, 15 June 2026 (UTC)

Legal maturity means the date at which a bond matures and becomes due for repayment, so it is wrong here. Legal majority is a very obscure term which means the age at which someone becomes an adult according to the law of a jurisdiction. It would be much better to say age of majority. Dudley Miles (talk) 21:11, 15 June 2026 (UTC)

Thank you for clarifying that for me as previously, I'd only heard the idea referred to as the "age of maturity". The sentence makes much more sense now though. Butterscotch Beluga (talk) 21:20, 15 June 2026 (UTC)

Brochfael ap Meurig scheduled for TFA

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Thanks Z1720. The blurb, which is a copy of the article lead, looks OK to me. Dudley Miles (talk) 12:34, 28 June 2026 (UTC)

Congratulations from the Military History Project

		Military history reviewers' award
		On behalf of the Military History Project, I am proud to present the The Milhist reviewing award (1 stripe) for participating in 3 reviews between April and June 2026 MilHistBot (talk) via MilHistBot (talk) 02:47, 3 July 2026 (UTC) Keep track of upcoming reviews. Just copy and paste {{WPMILHIST Review alerts}} to your user space