Talk:Luke Pope

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The result was: promoted by Theleekycauldron (talk) 02:46, 20 February 2022 (UTC)

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Luke Pope

• ... that English nurseryman Luke Pope (pictured) claimed on his deathbed in 1825 to have spent more than £3,000 on tulip bulbs? Source: "Provincial Nurseries: Warwickshire", The Gardener's Magazine, and Register of Rural and Domestic Improvement, Vol. VIII (1832), pp. 110-112 (p. 110).
  • Reviewed:Prince of Wales Riots
  • Comment: Still got a bit to do

Created by Philafrenzy (talk) and Whispyhistory (talk). Nominated by Philafrenzy (talk) at 22:07, 12 February 2022 (UTC).

• Hi Philafrenzy, always good to see articles relating to my home county! Review follows: article created 6 February; article is well written and exceeds minimum length; citations to reliable sources are inline throughout; I didn't find any issue with overly close paraphrasing from a check on a sample of sources; QPQ has been carried out; image is free and appropriately licensed; hook is interesting, mentioned in the article and checks out to source cited. Looks good. Just two minor comments that I won't hold up approval over: is it worth providing modern equivalents of the currency values using Template:Inflation and something's wrong with this portion of a sentence in the Death and legacy section: "could inspect illustrations of the it in bloom" - Dumelow (talk) 10:45, 14 February 2022 (UTC)

Thanks, both fixed. Not sure whether we give such conversions in hooks too. Philafrenzy (talk) 12:12, 14 February 2022 (UTC)

Looks good Philafrenzy, you could also convert the other currency values in the article if you like. I have seen equivalents given in other hooks, for the promoter the value would be: "(equivalent to £251,758 in 2020)", or rounded as you prefer - Dumelow (talk) 12:48, 14 February 2022 (UTC)

I will leave the others. One is very similar and the others self-evidently fairly small sums. Philafrenzy (talk) 14:51, 14 February 2022 (UTC)

Modified ALT0 to T:DYK/P7 without image