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A heads-up, not a request
The Crusades article is at PR at Peer review/Crusades/archive2. I know this is in your area, so if you're interested, please do have at it. But if it doesn't seem interesting, then just let it pass by. :-) Cheers! Lingzhi &diams; (talk) 02:34, 12 August 2016 (UTC)

William the Conqueror
If you think that is "too much detail for the lead," fair enough. But to simply state that he was "the descendant of Viking raiders" (why "the"?) is an oversimplification. Rollo and his descendants intermarried a bunch. If we state that he was a descendant of Rollo, OK. But "raiders" (plural) makes it sound like that was his entire origin, when in fact he was a bit of a mutt, genetically speaking.

I'm changing the sentence to read "A descendant of Rollo, he was Duke of Normandy from 1035 onward." That gets the crucial point across (Rollo was an ancestor).

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Anglo-Saxon Army
Hi Ealdgyth. People have put forward various suggestions at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history and I have raised the alterntive of changing it to a redirect to Anglo-Saxon warfare. Dudley Miles (talk) 09:27, 25 August 2016 (UTC)

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Stalkers alert
Anyone have access to:
 * This from Taylor & Francis
 * from Project Muse
 * from Taylor & Francis
 * Ealdgyth - Talk 14:08, 26 August 2016 (UTC)


 * I sent the Muse doc to you, but the email address I have is four years old. Email me if you didn't get it. Lingzhi &diams; (talk) 14:27, 26 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Got it. I don't move much, obviously. Ealdgyth - Talk 14:28, 26 August 2016 (UTC)

Of interest
Your expertise might be helpful for these folks: Articles for deletion/Henry of Bremen. Montanabw (talk) 00:08, 27 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Uh... what I know about Polish archbishoprics is .. nil. I have nothing that would be a source for that - hell, I don't have any sources for archbishops beyond Normandy... British Isles are a LONG way from Poland.... Ealdgyth - Talk 00:13, 27 August 2016 (UTC)
 * So no gigantic "dictionary of all bishops ever appointed," eh? (You can tell how much I know about church history...)   Montanabw (talk) 08:23, 30 August 2016 (UTC)

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Coins from the York Museum
Hi Ealdgyth, User:Joan Pritchard is a volunteer for the York Museums Trust. She has been working with them to get their collections on Commons. The work is partly documented their site, albeit the Roman coins rather than medieval but it's part of the same work. Nev1 (talk) 18:31, 30 August 2016 (UTC)

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TPSs...

 * Northern History
 * Journal of the Society of Archivists
 * Northern History
 * Northern History
 * Ealdgyth - Talk 13:27, 9 September 2016 (UTC)

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Tiny comment on linking for Empress Matilda
You reverted my link on Empress Matilda in the list of children for Henry I at the end of the article. Not crazy for you to do, by any means--there are lots of references to Empress Matilda before this in the article--but I don't think I was over-linking given that I was trying to read about who his children were, and I found it ridiculous that his illegitimate and other less important children were linked in the list but she was not. I understand that I could go to the infobox and find her, and that's what I did, but the infobox is uninformative about differentiating his legitimate and illegitimate children. Just a suggestion, but I think it would be reasonable to expect links in "listy" parts of articles that will often be the only thing someone is looking for. Hope this makes sense.

--Mellsworthy (talk) 02:26, 14 September 2016 (UTC)