Talk:1699 May Day orations

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The result was: promoted by HurricaneZeta (talk) 16:46, 29 January 2026 (UTC)

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• ... that five speeches by William & Mary students helped move Virginia's capital and establish Williamsburg?

• Source: Gruber, Katherine Egner (7 December 2020). "Williamsburg during the Colonial Period". Encyclopedia Virginia. Virginia Humanities. Retrieved 15 December 2025.

• • Reviewed: Phone Home (Legends of Tomorrow), Chama (album), Baker's Horse
  • Comment: See Wikipedia talk:Did you know#A William & Mary spectacular

Created by Pbritti (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 88 past nominations.

Pbritti (talk) 04:59, 7 January 2026 (UTC).

• - gtg. new enough, long enough. Prose is good and checks out to sources. BabbaQ (talk) 20:20, 22 January 2026 (UTC)

GA Review

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Nominator: Pbritti (talk · contribs) 06:15, 27 February 2026 (UTC)

Reviewer: Reconrabbit (talk · contribs) 17:57, 3 June 2026 (UTC)

Hello, first glance shows this to be a well-written article. Just have one thing so far but I'll keep working on this. -- Reconrabbit (talk) 17:57, 3 June 2026 (UTC)

@Reconrabbit: Thank you for the review! I'm traveling out of state at the moment and will do my best to make changes as I can. Are you alright with me making more serious replies on Monday of next week? If not, let me know and I might be able to carve out some time tonight. Best, ~ Pbritti (talk) 15:52, 5 June 2026 (UTC)

I'm in no rush! Fare well on your travels! -- Reconrabbit (talk) 17:27, 5 June 2026 (UTC)

@Reconrabbit: I think I overestimated the amount of work you gave me with your review–my apologies! I've tried addressing each of your comments, but please tell me if you believe I should make further amendments. Thank you! Best, ~ Pbritti (talk) 16:32, 8 June 2026 (UTC)

Prose

• A Proposals to make the move permanent errant "A"?
• The five speeches given by students of the College of William & Mary's grammar school were part of well-staged event arranged by Nicholson and Blair. Were they part of a well-staged event or are the speeches themselves the whole event
• The five speeches given by Mungo Inglis's students Who's Mungo Inglis?
• Andros contributed £56.7.6 ?

  It's the peculiar notation of pre-decimalization British currency (sometimes called "old money"). See this cheatsheet. See also here. The sources typically use the slash (/) but I went with the period after a previous discussion with another editor. ~ Pbritti (talk) 16:25, 8 June 2026 (UTC)

  I've learned something new. Then, besides maybe a link or a footnote this is fine as is. -- Reconrabbit (talk) 17:21, 8 June 2026 (UTC)

• The transmission of such values was undertaken under both leadership this is an awkward sentence for the sequence "undertaken under"; also, would it be "both the leadership" or "both leaderships of"
• Link College Point to College Landing Archeological Site?
• The To commemorate extra word
• Might want to add some information about the later relevance of the speeches to the historical record as it pertains to the 20th century to the introductory paragraphs.
• i didn't even notice "temote" until you fixed it Y
• Copyright: Nothing yet. There are many quotations that appear in the sources obviously. Not a problem to be noted.

References

• Layout: No notes

Spot checking

Reviewing 10 footnotes. Numbering is based on this revision.

• [2]a Y
• [2]b Y
• [2]c Y
• [2]d Y
• [2]e Y
• [3] Y
• [14] Y
• [21] Y
• [30] Y
• [33] Y

Sources I couldn't access were excluded.

Scope

• Broad: Historical context, content, and legacy covered on the subject.
• Narrow: Based on the sources I could read, there were no obvious omissions in this account of the subject, but it was not overly detailed either

Stability

• Neutrality: Fair space is given to the views that are present in sourcing without obvious bias (historical accounts acknowledging biases where they exist, e.g. in the perspectives on slavery)
• Edit warring: Does not see measurable disruption.

Images

• Free/Fair use: All images are public domain (corrected the license tags on some), besides the recent photo which is available on a CC-BY-SA 3.0 license. Y
• Relevance: Images are relevant - depicting figures where they are brought up in the text, relevant locations and a current photo of what was built in the aftermath.

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Criteria: 1a. prose () 1b. MoS () 2a. ref layout () 2b. cites WP:RS () 2c. no WP:OR () 2d. no WP:CV () 3a. broadness () 3b. focus () 4. neutral () 5. stable () 6a. free or tagged images () 6b. pics relevant () Note: this represents where the article stands relative to the Good Article criteria. Criteria marked are unassessed

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