Talk:Newent Onion Fayre

Latest comment: 1 year ago by Bruxton in topic Did you know nomination

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The result was: promoted by Bruxton (talk00:08, 11 March 2023 (UTC)Reply

 
Onion eating competitors in 2012
  • ... that the Newent Onion Fayre included a raw-onion-eating competition (competitors pictured)? Source: "Raw-onion-eating contest. Part of Newent Onion Fayre, near Gloucester" from: Vay, Benedict Le (2011). Ben Le Vay's Eccentric Britain. Bradt Travel Guides. p. 46. ISBN 978-1-84162-375-7.

Moved to mainspace by Dumelow (talk). Self-nominated at 11:05, 9 March 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Newent Onion Fayre; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.Reply

  • New enough, long enough, QPQ has been done, does not look or smell like copyvio. You might want to improve the sentence "The eating competition had competitors competed". ALT0 is cited inline in the article and is interesting. ALT1/2 are also OK policy-wise but probably can be improved, ALT1 by tightening and ALT2 by perhaps adding "medieval" for clarification. —Kusma (talk) 13:16, 10 March 2023 (UTC)Reply
thanks for the review Kusma. I've fixed that awful sentence and had a go at improving ALT1 and ALT2, if that's better? - Dumelow (talk) 13:45, 10 March 2023 (UTC)Reply
Happy with ALT1 now. For ALT2, there is another issue I should have mentioned earlier: I am not convinced this is the only possible interpretation of the source (the onion stalls might have looked differently from the ones selling we-don't-know-what in the graveyard). I forgot to comment on the image: it is OK from a licensing point of view, and we can just about see enough at the small size.   Approved for ALT0 and ALT1, happy to revisit the third one. —Kusma (talk) 14:03, 10 March 2023 (UTC)Reply
  This might make a good quirky hook.(?) for ALT0 Bruxton (talk) 19:18, 10 March 2023 (UTC)Reply