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William Paston (died 1444)

 * ... that the letters of the family of William Paston are "the richest source there is for every aspect of the lives of gentlemen and gentlewomen of the English middle ages"?
 * Reviewed: Elgin, Illinois, Centennial half dollar

Created by NinaGreen (talk). Self nominated at 01:27, 21 September 2013 (UTC). Hook won't work: it's a substantial nonfree quote. Since it comes from an authoritative source whose opinion matters, it's a good example of fair-use in the text, but we're not allowed to use nonfree material on the Main Page. What if you paraphrased the quote for the hook? Nyttend (talk) 04:08, 22 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Didn't know that. Perhaps an alternate hook? NinaGreen (talk) 16:09, 22 September 2013 (UTC)
 * ALT1: ... that the family of William Paston, made famous through the Paston Letters, was said to be descended from serfs?
 * Like ALT1: Symbol confirmed.svg Reviewed. No copyvio. Kay Smith


 * Death date is not a usually way of diambiguating a page title. Maybe pagemove to William Paston (lawyer)? Formerip (talk) 10:40, 28 September 2013 (UTC)
 * There are actually a very large number of Wikipedia articles from this period of history which disambiguate by date of death, and in this case it's a useful disambiguator as there are several William Pastons in the family. NinaGreen (talk) 14:50, 28 September 2013 (UTC)