Talk:Monument to the King's Liverpool Regiment

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Did you know... that the 1905 monument to the King's Liverpool Regiment is inscribed with the words Nec Aspera Terrent ("Difficulties be Damned")?

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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 20:06, 9 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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1685 soldier

... that the 1905 monument to the King's Liverpool Regiment depicts soldiers from 1685 (pictured), 1743 and 1902? "A soldier of 1685 stands at the left end of the wall and a soldier of 1902 stands at the right end of the wall." and "Below this is the figure of a drummer boy dressed in the uniform of 1743." from: "Kings Liverpool Regiment Boer War". Imperial War Museums. Retrieved 4 November 2021.
- ALT1: ... that the monument to the King's Liverpool Regiment is a rare example of a large-scale publicly-accessible regimental memorial from the pre-First World War era? "the monument is a rare example of a pre-First World War large-scale regimental monument in a public setting" from: Parkhouse, Valerie B. (28 January 2015). Memorializing the Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902: Militarization of the Landscape: Monuments and Memorials in Britain. Troubador Publishing Ltd. p. 297. ISBN 978-1-78088-401-1.

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Jeff Hirst
Comment: Would be good to run this on Remembrance Sunday (14 November this year)

Moved to mainspace by Dumelow (talk). Self-nominated at 09:32, 5 November 2021 (UTC).[reply]

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:

Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
Freely licensed: Used in article: Clear at 100px:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Article is new enough, long enough and copyvio via earwig 'unlikely'. The image is free to use, clear. QPQ is done. Nice to have this for Remembrance Sunday. Lajmmoore (talk) 12:17, 5 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Dumelow and Lajmmoore: Hi there! The article is well done, nice work! I'm having a hard time seeing how the hooks are interesting in their own right, although they are interesting with an image slot. How about

ALT2: ... that the 1905 monument to the King's Liverpool Regiment was originally inscribed with the words Nec Aspera Terrent ("Difficulties be Damned")?

Let me know, thanks! theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (they/them) 15:52, 5 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Fine by me, if it has to run without an image. I've added a source for the English version of the motto as the army uses a non-literal translation (more literally it is something like "frightened not by difficulty") - Dumelow (talk) 16:13, 5 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Fine by! I found them interesting, but forget to examine whether I had a bias (I did!) - great reminder for my reviewing! thanks for picking it up. Lajmmoore (talk) 17:05, 5 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

ALT2 is 142 characters long (under 200 character max.) and is interesting. ALT2 fact verified by ref 6, which is a reliable source. —Bloom6132 (talk) 02:06, 6 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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