Template:Did you know nominations/John Laugharne

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The result was: promoted by TarnishedPath (talk) 23:49, 24 May 2026 (UTC)

John Laugharne

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• ... that John Laugharne suddenly died the night after his re-election in 1715?

• Source:

"What he could not foresee was his own sudden death the night after his election, 15 Feb. 1715."

• • Reviewed:

Moved to mainspace by GoldenBootWizard276 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

GoldenBootWizard276 (talk) 12:18, 19 May 2026 (UTC).

• General: Article is new enough and long enough
  New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: All formalities passed, hook is interesting, article meets quality thresholds. All good! Regards, Jeromi Mikhael 12:29, 22 May 2026 (UTC)

• @Jeromi Mikhael and GoldenBootWizard276:, does this pass WP:GNG? I only see history of parliament online referenced. Are there any additional references? Also, I've tagged a number of paragraphs is requiring citations. — Preceding unsigned comment added by TarnishedPath (talk • contribs)

@TarnishedPath: I have added some more references. GoldenBootWizard276 (talk) 19:13, 24 May 2026 (UTC)

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