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April 27[edit]

I need help[edit]

Hi everyone, I'm Italian and I don't know the dynamics of Wiki Eng. Well, but I'm here to learn. I proposed the entry Draft:Andrea Benetti (artist), but rightly you rejected the entry as it was and gave some suggestions. Now I have resized the voice a lot, added notes / references from reliable sites (and not only Italian) and eliminated all the emphatic tones. Now I was wondering if you can help me make other changes that you think are appropriate to improve the voice. I specify that among the first notes / references inserted, there is the entry "Andrea Benetti" present in the Treccani encyclopedia https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/andrea-benetti/ , the most important and noble Italian encyclopedia. I thank you for your valuable work and I make myself available for anything you need to improve the voice, which is already present on Italian Wikipedia it:Andrea Benetti (artista) --BarbaraLuciano13 (talk) 10:36, 27 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hi BarbaraLuciano13. As a fellow volunteer, thanks to you too for creating an article! In English too, which is very impressive. I think this reference desk might not be the best place for your question, however. My understanding is that you would like help evaluating whether the article meets Wikipedia guidelines. For that, it would be better to ask on the Wikipedia:Help Desk or Wikipedia:Teahouse, as the volunteers in those places are extremely familiar with the guidelines. This place is for finding out facts and sources – for example, we could help if you need more references about Benetti. All the best, 70.67.193.176 (talk) 14:40, 28 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Burial of Prince Christian Victor of Schleswig-Holstein at Pretoria[edit]

Our article Prince Christian Victor of Schleswig-Holstein used to contain the uncited claim that during his funeral a Boer woman was heard to say "They are burying their Prince in British soil; the English intend to remain in this land". I feel sure I have read something of this sort elsewhere, but cannot lay my hands on it. Google returns only obvious cribs from Wikipedia. Can anyone turn up a reliable source for the comment? Thank you, DuncanHill (talk) 13:14, 27 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Royal first-class cricketers[edit]

Apart from Prince Christian Victor of Schleswig-Holstein (British Royal Family and I Zingari), have their been any other royal first-class cricketers? Thank you, DuncanHill (talk) 13:17, 27 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Iftikhar Ali Khan Pataudi, 8th Nawab of Pataudi springs to mind.

C.B. Fry reportedly was offered the Throne of Albania, but turned it down.

I guess the Rajasthan Royals don't count :-). {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 90.200.135.95 (talk) 14:01, 27 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I just remembered Ranji of course. DuncanHill (talk) 14:41, 27 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Frederick, Prince of Wales was a keen supporter of cricket, and played for Surrey in several matches. Rojomoke (talk) 05:52, 28 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Not first class by a long stretch, but George VI claimed a hat-trick during a game at Sandringham, when he took the wickets of Edward VII, the future George V and the future Edward VIII. [1] Alansplodge (talk) 11:03, 28 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The ICC compiled this list a couple of years ago. Lugnuts ^{Fire Walk with Me} 12:50, 1 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Text of Peter Stuyvesant's letter to the Amsterdam Chamber of the Dutch West India Company in 1654[edit]

I'm doing research on anti-Semitism in early America. Our article Peter Stuyvesant states that he wrote a letter to the Amsterdam Chamber of the Dutch West India Company in order to prevent Jews from settling in New Amsterdam. The paragraph ends with a reference, however the link has since become deprecated. Where can I find the full text of the letter in question? --Puzzledvegetable^{Is it teatime already?} 23:28, 27 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

An English translation can be found here. The reply is in the same book on page 32. --Lambiam 10:16, 28 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]