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The result was: promoted by Hawkeye7 (talk) 11:58, 4 June 2014 (UTC)

T. K. Bellis

 * ... that T. K. Bellis (pictured), the "Turtle King", had a Royal Warrant from Queen Victoria?
 * Reviewed: José Mário Vaz
 * Comment: If you can think of a meatier hook, please do.
 * Alt1: ... that T. K. Bellis (pictured), the "Turtle King", imported live turtles from Jamaica to London so that the Lord Mayor of London and/or Queen Victoria would not have to eat mock turtle soup?
 * If we can reasonably say that QV would have attended the banquet, otherwise the Lord Mayor. Mock turtle soup because it is something people will want to click on. Philafrenzy (talk) 21:19, 21 May 2014 (UTC)

Created by Philafrenzy (talk), Edwardx (talk). Nominated by Edwardx (talk) at 21:05, 21 May 2014 (UTC).


 * Symbol question.svg New enough, long enough, well referenced, no close paraphrasing seen. Image is pd. QPQ done. ALT1 is definitely meatier, but the source has no mention of Queen Victoria, so it should be just the Lord Mayor. I don't see anything in the source about a Royal Warrant from the Queen, just that he was the "official importer". There is also a "why?" tag in the second paragraph under Importing turtles that needs to be taken care of before this passes. Yoninah (talk) 14:29, 30 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Alt2: ... that T. K. Bellis (pictured), the "Turtle King", imported live turtles from Jamaica to London so that the Lord Mayor of London would not have to eat mock turtle soup?
 * QV may have been there but don't have time to research it. Go with Lord Mayor. Fixed the "Why" from the source and changed royal warrant to supplier. Good to go? Philafrenzy (talk) 21:10, 30 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Symbol confirmed.svg Everything checks out now. Hook ref verified and cited inline. ALT2 good to go. Yoninah (talk) 18:45, 31 May 2014 (UTC)