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Featured articleCeawlin of Wessex is a featured article; it (or a previous version of it) has been identified as one of the best articles produced by the Wikipedia community. Even so, if you can update or improve it, please do so.
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This articles images are currently without the alt text that are required in WP:ALT. Regards, SunCreator (talk) 01:29, 8 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I've added alt text to the images; please improve them if you can. Thanks. Mike Christie (talk) 01:51, 8 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Thank the lord for this featured article which has no real information at all. Well, Cwumbuwm of Twyllwyd may have had two sons, or he may not have. The sources conflict, you see. He may have had a brother, whom he deposed, named Cwmwmwmwm, or perhaps he had a sister who deposed him, named Cyrrrdrrrd, we simply cannot know. But we're fairly certain he came from a land before time. Jesus Christ. Also, he may have been king for 7 years, or was it 32? One document recovered suggests he had a penis 10 miles long which could satisfy twelve million fair ladies at once. This document may or may not have been written by Crywerdyerdy himself. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.165.37.96 (talk) 04:52, 8 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thank-you for that ever-so helpful comment! One can only assume you've done bugger all in the way of studies of Anglo-Saxon Britain, then? Because this is probably as accurate an article on Ceawlin as you'll ever get. Skinny87 (talk) 07:47, 8 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for your sarcastic comments and nonexistant suggestions to Wikipedia. We appreciate the total disregard for our editors' hard work. Waygugin (talk) 08:01, 8 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
The IP appears to originate from Australia, you can hardly blame the poster, his knowledge of history will likely extend only 400 years back, the poor thing. Parrot of Doom 10:39, 8 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for that generalisation, Parrot of Doom. :P Hayden120 (talk) 10:51, 8 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
My pleasure. Can you see the pub from there? ;) Parrot of Doom 14:53, 8 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
This is what pre-modern history is often like. The obscurity of the sources and the distance in time make it hard to say anything categorically and unquestionably. It's hardly the editors' fault. Brutannica (talk) 01:40, 9 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Pronunciation

How is Ceawlin pronounced?--Brianann MacAmhlaidh (talk) 07:13, 9 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The Evening Standard (an authoritative source for Old English - not) said "See - aw - lin". That's how the Viscount Weymouth, whose forename it is, says it. Angus McLellan (Talk) 12:45, 9 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]