# Talk:Gustavus Guydickens

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Nominator: Pickersgill-Cunliffe (talk · contribs) 03:27, 13 January 2025 (UTC)
Reviewer: Zawed (talk · contribs) 05:01, 20 January 2025 (UTC)

I will review this one, comments to follow in due course. Zawed (talk) 05:01, 20 January 2025 (UTC)
Infobox

No countries mentioned in infobox, e.g. Ireland for place of birth
Added
Lead

...and suspended.: from what?
Added
Early life

Reads OK
Military career

On 11 November 1762 he arrived at St James's Palace carrying news...: perhaps make clear this is in Britain, i.e. British Royal family
Rejigged
Is there a source that puts him at the siege of Cassel?
No, I've actually removed it from the infobox now. I think it incredibly unlikely that he wasn't there, but sources only say he carried news of it.
I think siege should be rendered as lower case here as per the lead of the article for the siege
Done
promoted to brevet colonel on 16 May 1782.: presume 86 meant here, not 82?
Actually no, this is just in the wrong place. Have moved it. The promotion system for officers of the Guards was very confusing! A regimental captain being in reality a full colonel!
Still serving to this point as first major of the 3rd Foot Guards, he was appointed lieutenant-colonel of the battalion on 15 September 1791.: the structure of the sentence appears to suggest that the 3rd Foot Guards is a battalion, but isn't it a regiment?
I've removed references to the battalion in order to avoid confusion.
Throughout this period Guydickens was heavily in debt: is it known how he accumulated this debt?
No; my best guess would be gambling - although it's possible in his unique situation it was blackmail!
Gross indecency charge

November was committed to the Fleet Prison.: to me, it seems more grammatically correct to state "committed to the Fleet Prison".
Changed
The cites on the last half of the final paragraph can be consolidated to one at the end.
Done
Other stuff

Image tags OK, but for the first image, suggest making more clear the subject is Duke Ferdinand and not Guydickens (I was going to suggest moving it to the infobox until I realised the subject of the painting!)
Done
No dupe links
Sources: what makes Norton a RS? The others look good to me.
This is Norton's own site, but he is one of the more reliable (and prolific) historians of gay culture, a quick IA search [1] shows his use in various works.
Source checks: cite 7 OK, I checked several instances of cite 8 and these are generally OK. I did note that it doesn't support the bit about Charlotte at Kensington Palace.
Not sure where that came from, removed.
Norton says Guydickens was married and had three children, worth inserting somewhere?
I did have this in originally, but other sources say that it was actually his father who remarried. It's about 50/50 when reading about the marriage as to whether it was Melchior or Gustavus, as the period sources mostly just say "Colonel Guydickens married..."
That's me done. Cheers, Zawed (talk) 04:53, 27 January 2025 (UTC)

@Zawed: Hi, thanks for taking this on. My responses are above. Pickersgill-Cunliffe (talk) 15:53, 27 January 2025 (UTC)
@Zawed reminder just in case. Setergh (talk) 16:02, 29 January 2025 (UTC)
This all looks satisfactory. I am passing as GA as I believe the article meets the necessary criteria. Cheers, Zawed (talk) 08:52, 30 January 2025 (UTC)