Talk:John Joscelyn

Latest comment: 14 years ago by Parrot of Doom in topic GA Review
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August 16, 2010Good article nomineeListed
Did You Know
A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on February 13, 2010.
The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that the English antiquarian John Joscelyn (d. 1603) wrote a history of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge that was not published until 1880, over 200 years after his death?

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Reviewer: Parrot of Doom 13:26, 16 August 2010 (UTC)Reply

Reviewing... Parrot of Doom 13:26, 16 August 2010 (UTC)Reply

Comments

  • "John Joscelyn was their third son to survive childhood" - might infancy be a better phrase? I'm presuming of course that most children who die do so in infancy.
  • "and was probably born at High Roding, Essex, where his father had an estate" - would the alternative phrasing, "and was probably born on his father's estate at High Roding, Essex" be original research?
  • "Parker named Joscelyn to a chaplainacy in 1559 shortly after Parker was appointed as archbishop" - who is Parker? The lead names him, but the body doesn't (the sentence has changed slightly as I copyedited it).
  • "Besides Greek and Latin, Joscelyn knew Hebrew" - knew it, could speak it, could write it...or just "knew" that Hebrew existed?
  • "'Joscelyn's contributions to the study of Old English have been called "a significant contribution to the development of the study of the language'" - by whom?
  • "Joscelyn died on 28 December 1602, probably at High Roding, and was buried in All Saint's Church in High Roding. He never married.[1]" - this should come before any mention of his legacy.

Apart from the above minor points, all is well and I'm happy its of GA-standard. Parrot of Doom 13:47, 16 August 2010 (UTC)Reply