Template:Did you know nominations/John Stacy (alchemist)
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The result was: promoted by SL93 talk 19:07, 9 March 2025 (UTC)
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John Stacy (alchemist)
- ... that in the mid-15th-century, John Stacy was a well-known alchemist, an alleged astronomer, and suspected of being a great sorcerer who practised the dark arts? Source: * Hughes, J. (2002). Arthurian Myths and Alchemy: The Kingship of Edward IV. Stroud: Sutton. p. 289. ISBN 978-0-75091-994-4.* Saunders, C. J. (2010). Magic and the Supernatural in Medieval English Romance. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer. p. 76. ISBN 978-1-84384-221-7.
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/The Man in the Yellow Tie
- Comment: I would have liked a hook about the vignette of Suffolk's murder, but I couldn't quite work out a way of combing The Tower/Nicholas of the Tower without too much detail.
Created by Serial Number 54129 (talk).
Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 45 past nominations.
Serial (speculates here) 19:16, 22 January 2025 (UTC).
I ran to the talk page to see if you had nominated the article as soon as I saw it created. New, long enough, well-sourced, and brilliant. Please do try to compose a Suffolk murder hook! It is too good not to give it a shot. Take your time. Surtsicna (talk) 20:22, 22 January 2025 (UTC)
- ALT1: ... that John Stacy predicted the death of a Duke of Suffolk?--Launchballer 18:00, 8 February 2025 (UTC)
This article is (per above) new enough, long enough, and well-sourced. QPQ done. ALT0 is in the body, cited, and offline source accepted in good faith. ALT1 is in the body, cited, and Saunders 2010, p. 76 verifies it. I prefer ALT1. Good to go. Tenpop421 (talk) 18:16, 9 March 2025 (UTC)#
- @Tenpop421: I think Surtsicna might have been thinking something like "ALT2...that John Stacy warned the Duke of Suffolk that a Tower would be dangerous to him; Suffolk was later murdered by sailors whose ship was The Nicholas of the Tower?" Fortuna, Imperatrix Mundi 18:34, 9 March 2025 (UTC)
- Thanks @Fortuna imperatrix mundi: ALT2 is in the article, cited, with an offline source accepted in good faith. ALT2 is much the interesting-est. Good to go. Tenpop421 (talk) 18:38, 9 March 2025 (UTC)