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A fact from Favourite appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on 27 November 2007.

[edit] Nice article

Very nice article here. Hopefully it can be linked a lot from other articles, though the current links probably need tidying up to remove dictionary definition entries. Or maybe not. The 'what links here' list looks OK. Carcharoth (talk) 16:49, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. I just added lots of links (with the "u" & think they are ok (now I have delinked Maggie and the Ferocious Beast - well it might have been relevant). I've done a bit on the US spelling. "Favorite" + of/and etc is a good search term if you're ever looking for several hundred completely useless articles to prod, I discover. Johnbod (talk) 16:59, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Mistresses

I added some significant mistresses - are you going specifically for those with political power? Should we add some of Charles II's many mistresses? (Will be here here all week doing so?) - PKM (talk) 23:48, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

One or two with real power - preferably not French, would be useful. But really mistresses for "favourites" is a euphemism, so I don't think we need loads. The list at royal mistress could do with expansion though. Johnbod (talk) 02:18, 25 November 2007 (UTC)

Added Margaret Erskine to royal mistress. Feel free to remove anything I added here that doesn't fit.

Weren't some of James V of Scotland's lesser favourites hanged from a bridge after Solway Moss, or am I cross-connecting him with some other Scottish king named James and some other messy defeat? It's not in either of the first two references I checked. - PKM (talk) 02:41, 25 November 2007 (UTC)

If they were, that would just be the English being beastly as usual, I suppose, but I think you may be thinking of the mass hanging centred (literally) on Robert Cochrane, done by the usual revolting nobles - J4 I think. Have you seen the duel of Les Mignons also? The Scots kings do seem extraordinarily favourite prone, whereas the German Habsburgs for example managed to get along with few if any. Johnbod (talk) 14:50, 25 November 2007 (UTC)

Yes, I was thinking of JIII and Cochrane et al., where the Scots nobles hanged the King's favourites from Lauder bridge. This time it was the lowlanders being beastly as usual. - PKM (talk) 18:55, 25 November 2007 (UTC)