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Did you know nomination
edit- The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was: promoted by Hawkeye7 (talk) 22:00, 7 March 2021 (UTC)
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- ... that after winning Olympic bronze in bobsleigh, "Paddy" Green went on to RAF night fighter fame that won awards from the US and Soviet Union? Source: Tidy, olympics database
- Reviewed: SNLE 3G
Created by Maury Markowitz (talk). Self-nominated at 17:05, 20 February 2021 (UTC).
- Article is long enough (8,236 characters), new enough (created 20 February, nominated the same day), and article is within policy. Earwig copyvio says 31% chance of copyvio, but this is false positive- all content flagged are names of people, places or organisations
- The hook is short enough and interesting, however the article text and the source say that Green won a bronze medal at the 1936 Winter Olympics, not a gold medal like the hook says. Maury Markowitz shouln't the hook say that "... that after winning Olympic bronze" rather than Olympic gold?
- QPQ done
- Article looks fine, only issue to be resolved is the Olympic medal mentioned in the hook. Joseph2302 (talk) 21:11, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- Brain fart when typing the hook. All fixed. @Joseph2302: Maury Markowitz (talk) 00:34, 23 February 2021 (UTC)
- Hook is fine now
- Image is freely licenced, used in article, and looks good at low resolution
- This is now all good to go. Joseph2302 (talk) 15:19, 24 February 2021 (UTC)
"Paddy"
edit"Paddy" is in scare quotes in the DYK hook and the article's opening sentence, and the "nickname" field in the infobox says Paddy and links to "Paddy: (capitalised) An Irishman (derogatory)". Is there any evidence that he was Irish or that people nicknamed him on the assumption that he was? It seems much more likely to me that "Paddy" is just the standard hypocoristic for "Patrick", his middle name; in which case, per MOS:QUOTENAME it should not be in quotes. jnestorius(talk) 10:08, 12 March 2021 (UTC)
- @Jnestorius: quite so, there seems no reason for the name to have been in quotes. Paddy is a very common short form for people called Patrick. In fact, if that's really his commonly-used name, then the article should probably be moved there. Sorry, I didn't see that you'd raised the issue on DYK until now. Chers — Amakuru (talk) 14:13, 12 March 2021 (UTC)