Talk:Henri L'Estrange

Free-license checking
When I imported this from the Dictionary of Sydney and wikified I was positive that I confirmed first that it was licensed under CC-by-SA (most, but not all, DoS content is this way). However, in DYK reviewing, it appeared that either it never was freely licensed or the license tag had been removed. I'm currently checking with the Dictionary of Sydney staff about the copyright status of the original essay on which this article was substantially built. Please give me a week to confirm this. If it never was freely-licensed (and I can't convince them to change it) then we'll need to completely delete the article. If it was originally freely-licensed I'll try and find some confirmation of this and provide it to OTRS or an admin to confirm (like we do with Flickr submissions that have subsequently changed their copyright license). Ideally the DoS article will simply be put under a free license [again] and I'll upload it to the Internet Archive as insurance in case this happens again. Thanks for your patience whilst I confirm all this. Wittylama 22:30, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
 * I've had confirmation that this article was indeed licensed under cc-by-sa and that the Dictionary of Sydney will confirm this on their own website next month when they publish the next release. Sincerely, Wittylama 00:39, 11 January 2012 (UTC)

Awkward phrase: "cooked and rode a bicycle"
The article states that L'Estrange "cooked and rode a bicycle" during his act.

While grammatically correct (in context of the complete sentence), this clause makes me wonder: what if he had cooked and eaten the bicycle ...? (Sorry: joke.)

The sentence should be re-written to avoid such unintended grotesques. But I'm at a loss; perhaps someone else has the right words?

Karl gregory jones (talk) 02:22, 27 February 2014 (UTC)

More than one 'Australian Blondin'
The Dictionary of Sydney indicates:
 * At least five were performing in Sydney from 1880 under variations of the title from the Young Blondin (Alfred Row) to the Blondin Brothers (Alexander and Collins), the great Australian Blondin (James Alexander), the original Australian Blondin (Collins), the Great Australian Blondin (Signor Vertelli), the Female Australian Blondin (Azella) and another Australian Blondin (Charles Jackson).

James ALEXANDER, one 'Australian Blondin',  died of from 'heart affection', aged 55, at the Bathurst Hospital on Friday, 15 March 1918. He had fallen from a tight rope a few months earlier, and had not recovered.

Caution needs to be taken to not confuse L'ESTRANGE with other BLONDINs.–Q8682 (talk) 14:18, 6 January 2023 (UTC)