Template:Did you know nominations/Leo Tornikios


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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 22:09, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

Leo Tornikios

 * ... that at Christmas 1047 a failed claimant to the Byzantine throne was publicly blinded? (The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium, Kazhdan (ed), 1991, p 2097; Byzantium: the Apogee, Norwich, 1991, p 314. Both cited in-line in article.)
 * Reviewed: No. QPQ not yet required - second nomination. I intend to review two nominations today though.

Improved to Good Article status by Gog the Mild (talk). Self-nominated at 10:41, 5 April 2018 (UTC).
 * Interesting GA on good sources, offline sources accepted AGF, no copyvio obvious. How do you feel about giving him a name?
 * ALT1: ... that Leo Tornikios, a failed claimant to the Byzantine throne, was publicly blinded at Christmas 1047?
 * Symbol voting keep.svg --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:11, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Yes, that reads better. I think that I was over focused on keeping it short. Thank you. Gog the Mild (talk) 11:14, 5 April 2018 (UTC)