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Latest comment: 8 years ago6 comments3 people in discussion
I notice more is promised for this article but not much added in the last few months. I've started an article on Robert of Shrewsbury (died 1168) and expanded that on Thomas Prestbury to a fair size, so I'm reasonably keen to get to work here. However, I don't want to pre-empt something that's already in development. Anyone working on this at the moment? Sjwells53 (talk) 21:04, 17 March 2016 (UTC)Reply
I've had a go and have removed the list class tags: I'm not sure they apply. I think some of the biographies could, with a bit of expansion, stand as separate articles, particularly those on Stevens and Mynde, who I think were important figures regionally. I will be expanding the one on Thomas Prestbury further fairly soon. Sjwells53 (talk) 16:04, 9 April 2016 (UTC)Reply
Very good work. Many, perhaps all, of these abbots could have articles of their own. There's nothing wrong with short articles. Srnec (talk) 13:11, 11 May 2016 (UTC)Reply
As I wrote above, some are better candidates than others. I'm surprised really that Stevens and Mynde haven't already, as they are fairly major figures and, just as importantly, there is a good deal of source material on them. To make a decent biographical article you need some real events, as well as a set of dates and places that situate them unimpeachably. The last three abbots, and certainly Lye, probably qualify. If this were done, the sensible thing would be to put a Details template in the appropriate places here and reduce their entries accordingly. On the other hand, I think the Prestbury section could now do with some surgery, as I've already rewritten his own separate article twice to accommodate the research I did for this page. I tried to use the exercise as a way of giving a history of the abbey through successive biographies, so I think it's important to maintain that sort of detail here, while coverage of events and developments elsewhere best goes into the separate articles. For example, important to know that Prestbury was Chancellor of Oxford and that this reflected his general political position: no need for detailed coverage of what he did there.Sjwells53 (talk) 13:29, 11 May 2016 (UTC)Reply
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