Talk:Swakeleys House

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May 27, 2011	Good article nominee	Listed

A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on April 15, 2011.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that the 17th century Jacobean mansion Swakeleys House in Ickenham was visited by Samuel Pepys in 1665 and recorded in his diary?

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Suggested historical reference material[edit]

Inviting contributors to expand the article using the following account, or append an external link. The monograph has an extensive architectural description, floor plans and elevations, photographs / engravings of internal and external features such as entrances, ceilings and staircases, plus the Vyner's inscriptions from Ickenham Church.

Survey of London Monograph 13 - Swakeleys, Ickenham http://www.british-history.ac.uk/source.aspx?pubid=1265

--Bhogrok (talk) 12:30, 23 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I appreciate the use of {{Request edit}} here, but I can't make any specific change; the info is here on the talk page for others. Otherwise, you could make specific suggestions, and I could consider them. But I cannot work on a generic 'please expand it', as an edit request. Sorry. Chzz ► 23:47, 20 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Short description[edit]

@GhostInTheMachine: I edited the short description, but you reverted the change. My intention was to remove a term ("Grade 1 listed") which does not conform with WP:SDJARGON as it may not be readily comprehensible to readers who do not understand the UK concept of listing. You may or may not wish to reconsider, but I don't think your description of my edit as "non-constructive" is reasonable. Bazza (talk) 21:17, 15 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Anything that happened more than a week ago could be seen as "historic" in some contexts, but Grade 1 listed is a well defined term rather than jargon — GhostInTheMachine ^{talk to me} 21:35, 15 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Me, I'd say "17th-century mansion in Outer London". People know where London is, but this must be c. 15 miles from dead centre, & of course was pretty rural when it was built. Johnbod (talk) 03:57, 16 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Changed it — GhostInTheMachine ^{talk to me} 13:27, 16 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]