Talk:Newent Onion Fayre

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The result was: promoted by Bruxton (talk) 00:08, 11 March 2023 (UTC)

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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.
  • ALT1: ... that traders at the Newent Onion Fayre sold the vegetable to Welsh cattle drovers passing through the town? Source: "dates back to the thirteenth century.... two annual fairs. One of these became known as the Onion Fayre because market gardeners from Evesham started to sell their onions to Welsh drovers who passed through Newent on their way to the celebrated Gloucester cattle market" from: Collins, Tony; Martin, John; Vamplew, Wray (2005). Encyclopedia of Traditional British Rural Sports. Psychology Press. p. 200. ISBN 978-0-415-35224-6.
  • ALT2: ... that at the mediaeval Newent Onion Fayre in Gloucestershire, England, traders sold the vegetables from on top of graves in the local churchyard? Source: "in the absence of trestle tables, cloths were laid over tombstones in the churchyard to make market stalls" from: Collins, Tony; Martin, John; Vamplew, Wray (2005). Encyclopedia of Traditional British Rural Sports. Psychology Press. p. 200. ISBN 978-0-415-35224-6.
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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.

• 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)

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)

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)

This might make a good quirky hook.^(?) for ALT0 Bruxton (talk) 19:18, 10 March 2023 (UTC)