Template:Did you know nominations/Corsican Guard

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The result was: promoted by Miyagawa (talk) 21:55, 19 February 2015 (UTC)

Corsican Guard

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~~... that a brawl with Frenchmen at Ponte Sisto in Rome (pictured) on 20 August 1662 forced Pope Alexander VII to disband the Corsican Guard?~~

Reviewed: McConnell Island

Created/expanded by Alessandro57 (talk). Self nominated at 19:01, 17 January 2015 (UTC).

The pope was in a brawl??? EEng (talk) 01:47, 23 January 2015 (UTC)

Ooops! :-) Of course only indirectly...The brawl was between soldiers of the guard, EEng, you are right.

ALT1~~... that a brawl between Corsican soldiers and Frenchmen at Ponte Sisto in Rome (pictured) on 20 August 1662 forced Pope Alexander VII to disband the Corsican Guard?~~ Alex2006 (talk) 04:43, 23 January 2015 (UTC)

Thanks. But let me suggest
ALT2 ... that a 20 August 1662 brawl between Corsican soldiers and Frenchmen at Rome's Ponte Sisto (pictured) forced Pope Alexander VII to disband the Corsican Guard?

(Normally we don't link major cities like Rome -- anyway, reader can reach it through Ponte Sisto link if desired.) EEng (talk) 13:47, 23 January 2015 (UTC)

Beautiful. This makes the hook much more elegant. Let's go for ALT2 (although the review did not start yet) :-). Thanks! Alex2006 (talk) 14:32, 23 January 2015 (UTC)

Full review needed now that hook is set. (Struck the earlier ones.) BlueMoonset (talk) 19:51, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

size and age all good. hook cited. material accepted in good faith from Italian source. good to go. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 12:42, 19 February 2015 (UTC)