Talk:Honours of Winston Churchill

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 Honours of Winston Churchill was a good article nominee, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. There are suggestions below for improving the article. Once these are addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.

Reviewed version: May 23, 2007
An entry from Honours of Winston Churchill appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on 10 April 2007.
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[edit] Dukedom of London

I seem to remember hearing that, while Churchill was offered a Dukedom, there was no proper discussion of the title he might take. Also, that the Eden government which offered it was rather keen that Churchill did not accept. I will try to find a source for this but Churchill enthusiasts may know more. Sam Blacketer 08:50, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Please check this citation

Please verify the citation for this sentence:

The funeral also saw the largest assemblage of statesmen in the world until the funeral of Pope John Paul II in 2005.

Unless I missed something, the citation, [1], doesn't make that exact claim. Majoreditor 03:13, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

The BBC cited reference says: "The Italian media is comparing the funeral of John Paul II to those of Gandhi, Stalin, John F Kennedy and Churchill, and saying this will be bigger than all of them."
That's not quite the same as "the largest assemblage of statesmen in the world until the funeral of Pope John Paul II in 2005." Please let me know if I have overlooked something else in the article. Majoreditor 03:16, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] GA assessment - failed at this time

Whilst this has the potential to be an interesting article - it does not pass the first criteria of WP:GAC at this time. This is because the language used is at times repetitious as well as choppy. In addition the article talks about the honours of Mr Churchill but only offers a passing glance at most of them - particularly in the area headed - Other honours - and of course in the area which is nothing more than a list titled - list of honours. To date therefore the article requires a good deal of further copy-editing to come to a stage of encyclopediac language, as well as much more detail than simple one or two sentence paragraphs.--VS talk 10:46, 23 May 2007 (UTC)