The article was removed by YellowAssessmentMonkey 01:04, 25 March 2009 [1].
This is primarily an issue of 1c - specifically WP:RS. The article relies heavily on A History of Wales from the Earliest Times to the Edwardian Conquest by John Edward Lloyd, which is a classic, surely, but at a hundred years old must certainly have been surpassed by newer scholarship. Lloyd writes from the nation-state perspective typical of early 20th-century historiography, and even though the article itself is reasonably balanced, it's a bad signal to send that historical research doesn't develop at all over a hundred years. I will put some suggestions on the talk page for newer works that can be used.
Then there is the "Historical assessment" part. This is where Lloyd would be in his place, to show historiographical development. Instead a somewhat lazy solution has been chosen, with two lengthy quotes and no editorial comment. As the quotes stand now they appear as a historiographical disagreement between two schools of thought, rather than the result of historiographical development over time.
Finally there's the "Cultural allusions" which tends towards "In popular culture" ( Sharon Kay Penman is like the Family Guy of medieval literature). This section should be limited to culturally significant portrayals of the subject, and not include a bullet-point list of every popular novel where he's mentioned. Apart from this I think the article is reasonably well written, and should be salvageable. Lampman ( talk) 11:43, 13 February 2009 (UTC) reply
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