Template:Did you know nominations/Knave go by


 * The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as |this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: rejected by BlueMoonset (talk) 06:07, 6 December 2017 (UTC)

Knave-Go-By

 * ... that Knave-Go-By is a village in Cornwall named for an incident involving John Wesley, the founder of Methodism?

Created by A Den Jentyl Ettien Avel Dysklyver (talk). Self-nominated at 23:26, 9 October 2017 (UTC).


 * Is there any reason for the way you've chosen to spell the article title? From what I can see the sources either refer to the village as "Knave Go By" (capitalised) or "Knave-go-by" (with hyphens). 97198 (talk) 05:02, 10 October 2017 (UTC)
 * I have changed the article title to "Knave-Go-By" to reflect what is used by the Ordance Survey (the most reliable source for current UK place names). Originally I just created it from a redlink on the list of places in Cornwall, where it was without hyphens. 16:05, 10 October 2017 (UTC)


 * Realistically the sources in the article are all I could find on the internet, I suppose some of the suppositions presented in the article could be qualified with constructs like " said in ### that a version of the story widely held to be true by locals is.... . -ref-", some advice on this would be appreciated. I put this forward because it is interesting (and the last village redlink in Cornwall to be done) so I thought it would be a good 'did you know' article. Dysklyver  19:11, 11 October 2017 (UTC)
 * I looked for sources myself and agree that it's difficult to find them. There are some extensive accounts of Wesley's activities in Cornwall, e.g The Wesleys in Cornwall, 1743–1789 but they don't seem to have anything specific.  I'll take another look after this further round of work and see if we're there yet.  More anon. Andrew D. (talk) 08:35, 15 October 2017 (UTC)
 * I don't think there is anything else to hand, maybe a old book would have something on it, but thats not available to me right now or anytime soon. Dysklyver  00:04, 8 November 2017 (UTC)
 * I'll be at the British Library on Friday. If there's some offline source which might help, I can perhaps consult it then. Andrew D. (talk) 10:31, 8 November 2017 (UTC)
 * I am not an expert on the British Library, and don't know what they have (if anything) that could be relevant, but I did see this when searching the web. Dysklyver  12:15, 8 November 2017 (UTC)


 * Andrew D., the nominator has been blocked indefinitely (and can't appeal for at least six months); please make a final determination on the nomination. Thank you very much. BlueMoonset (talk) 18:41, 28 November 2017 (UTC)


 * Symbol delete vote.svg Original reviewer has not returned to comment, yet article clearly has significant issues re sourcing and the hook likewise; as the nominator will not be returning, time to close the nomination as unsuccessful. BlueMoonset (talk) 15:03, 5 December 2017 (UTC)
 * It's a shame but I looked for more sources and didn't find anything which would raise this beyond the level of vague hearsay. Andrew D. (talk) 15:42, 5 December 2017 (UTC)