Talk:Minuscule 880

A fact from Minuscule 880 appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 11 September 2012 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that minuscule 880, a 15th-century manuscript of the New Testament, was written by George Hermonymus, a teacher of Reuchlin and Budeus?

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This article ought never have made front page DYK in this state

It is full of highly-specialised information, including codes, that no casual reader could possibly have a clue about.
It requires the reader to page-hop backwards and forwards for information.
It contains very little information that is useful for the casual reader.

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What is Byzantine text-type.
What is Category V?
What is the Claremont Profile Method?
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Who are F. H. A. Scrivener, C. R. Gregory?
What is INTF?
Who are Ernesto Feron and Fabiano Battaglini?
What is the relevance of minuscule 386 and 878?
What is Ottobonianus gr. 208?

This is not exactly a long article! Why should the reader be expected to look up all this stuff, just to come to some understanding of the significance of this object?

Amandajm (talk) 02:05, 11 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]