Talk:Ranulf Flambard

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Is this article really to be considered Start Class? It's not exactly a stub. I think it's well referenced and written. Hopefully someone will have a look and reclassify it. I have no vested interest here either. Literally just found it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.75.99.154 (talk) 22:05, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

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Nominator on the road
I'm on the road and may or may not be able to access the internet reliably. Figured I should let folks know in case the article gets reviewed. Ealdgyth - Talk 14:51, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

GA assessment
I've gone through the article and fixed a few minor things, but it certainly meets the GA criteria, so I'm not gonna bother with a more detailed review. I'll leave a few suggestions for improvement though, mostly matters of personal taste and preference
 * 1) "The story [about Ranulf's niece and the legate] is unlikely to be true." - says who, and why?
 * 2) "...he would have been about 5-foot-9-inch (1.8 m) tall." It should perhaps be pointed out that this would have been a relatively imposing size at the time, but such a statement would of course have to be sourced.
 * 3) Personally I prefer to put commas after the author name in refs (Barlow, William Rufus p. 141), but this is a minor thing of course.

Good job, I especially enjoyed the intelligent use of the best of up-to-date scholarship, which is something I find is often missing.  Lampman  Talk to me! 19:34, 5 May 2008 (UTC)