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A fact from Execution of George Spencer appeared on Wikipedia's
Main Page in the Did you know column on 13 November 2011 (
check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
This is poorly worded : "...George Spencer's resemblance to a stillborn, deformed piglet...", it should read ..."a stillborn, deformed piglet's resemblance to George Spencer.." — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
71.201.40.29 (
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00:32, 13 November 2011 (UTC)reply
Have you tried reading that sentence using your construct? Does not read well at all. Thanks to the beauty of English either way works, it's just that the DYK order works much better as a hook.
violet/riga[talk]10:01, 13 November 2011 (UTC)reply
Title
Hi! I took the
liberty of moving the article for consistency with other biographies, as the usual method of disambiguation is by the subject's "claim to fame". Spencer is notable for being a sex offender, not for being from New Haven. Does anyone have a better suggestion? Something like
George Spencer (sodomy law offender) (I thought it would be longer than necessary) or
George Spencer (sodomy convict)? Wonderful article, by the way!
Surtsicna (
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12:16, 2 February 2013 (UTC)reply
Is he really a sex offender? Sounds like he was convicted without due process, so we can't really apply that modern term to what was basically something of a witch trial. We don't call the people burned at the stake for sorcery criminals today, and we don't call people who were put to death for looking like a piglet criminals today. — Preceding
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75.72.164.47 (
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18:49, 6 February 2013 (UTC)reply
Requested move
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I moved the article to the present title because I felt it was more descriptive (and thus more useful) than the previous one. This George Spencer is notable for being convicted for sodomy, not for being from New Haven. Thus, I would (once more) suggest
George Spencer (sodomy convict) as an alternative. Another possible title would be
Trial of George Spencer, given that the article is not about the trial and that it is not a proper biography.
Surtsicna (
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15:50, 27 February 2013 (UTC)reply
Weak oppose per Surtsicna. I'm sympathetic to your argument, George. But the current title is undeniably more descriptive—I would assume "George Spencer (New Haven)" was a politician, perhaps a mayor. We could do
George Spencer (Puritan), although this may be misleading since he didn't share the Puritans' religious persuasion, their defining characteristic. Leave well enough alone. There's no BLP issue here; history has deemed this man a zoophile, there's no sense in being oblique about it. --
BDD (
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17:20, 27 February 2013 (UTC)reply
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