Talk:Helena of Skövde

Title change

For some reason the motivation for the move of the article has been lost, but I did it to be consistent with Helena of Constantinople and most other articles on saints, which do not have "Saint" as part of the title. Uppland 10:16, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

Did you know nomination

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The result was: withdrawn by nominator, closed by Northamerica1000 (talk) 03:09, 20 June 2021 (UTC)

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Statuette of St. Helena outside St. Helena's church in Skövde, created by Astri Taube during the 1950s.

• ... that Helena of Skövde, canonized by Pope Alexander III, was the first Swedish woman to become a saint? Source: "St Helena's Church, Skövde", Skövde Tourist Centre, https://www.vastsverige.com/en/skovde/produkter/st-helenas-church/
  • ALT1:... that St. Helena of Skövde was wrongly accused of instigating the murder of her son-in-law, and was then killed by his family? Source: Agnes Dunbar (1901). A Dictionary of Saintly Women, p. 373

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Die güldne Sonne voll Freud und Wonne

5x expanded by Figureskatingfan (talk). Self-nominated at 03:20, 7 June 2021 (UTC).

• 5× expansion of 10 May 2021 version not completed – was 1,743 characters and is now 3,565 (needs to be a minimum of 8,715). No copyvios detected and duplication detector check of online sources[1][2] reveal no close paraphrasing issues (AGF book source which can't go through Dup detector). Article is well-sourced. Main hook is 102 characters long (ALT1 is 125); both are under the 200 character max. limit and are interesting. Ref 1 (verifying the main hook) is a reliable sources (AGF offline ref 2 for ALT1). QPQ done. Image is free under CC BY-SA 3.0. —Bloom6132 (talk) 03:51, 12 June 2021 (UTC)

I withdraw the nomination, since it doesn't fulfill the 5x expansion requirement. Thanks for the review, and sorry to waste everyone's time. Christine (Figureskatingfan) (talk) 15:46, 12 June 2021 (UTC)

Don't apologise improving articles is always welcomed. Marking for closure per above.Cowlibob (talk) 10:43, 15 June 2021 (UTC)