Talk:Battle of Stow-on-the-Wold

Started page

Hi I started this page and if any one has anything to add or knows how to add the battle to the battle box please go ahead. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Thomas Hall (talk • contribs) 10:31, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

Which River Avon?

In the second sentence of the section "The battle", the link to River Avon needs to be disambiguated - I guess it should be either River Avon, Warwickshire, or River Avon, Bristol. I'd do it, but it's late and my geog. is not up to it without dragging out and squinting at my atlas. Smalljim 22:56, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

Battlefield monument may be in the wrong location

• English Civil War battlefield 'may be in wrong place' BBC 24 May 2010
• Calls for Battle of Stow Civil War site to be surveyed BBC 6 April 2011

-- PBS (talk) 13:29, 5 May 2011 (UTC)

Copyright violation but which way?

This blog posting Canadian Content » Canadian Forums » Themes » History » Stow-on-the-Wold battlefield may be in the wrong place was posted by Blackleaf; May 26th, 2010 at 12:39 PM. Now usually with blog posting long after a Wikipedia page is created it is obvious which way round the copyright is. The trouble in this case is the wording seems to be an improvement on what we have here and it includes more details, so I am wondering if it is a copy of a source that was used to create this article.

The thing that first alerted me this was our sentence "Finally, Astley sat down on an ancient cross monument in the square and declared ..." which beggars the question to whom was he talking? The wording in the blog is "Finally, the defeated Astley sat down on an ancient cross monument in the square and declared ...", the word defeated improves the sentence and explains to whom Astley was speaking.

The blog page has a fairly comprehensive aftermath section which our article lacks. This lead me to look at the other paragraphs and the similarity is quite striking. Here is a diff between our wording and that of the blog. -- PBS (talk) 14:03, 5 May 2011 (UTC)