Talk:Irving L. Branch

Did you know nomination

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 Z1720 (talk) 15:06, 15 July 2022 (UTC)

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• ... that Irving L. Branch has the 'eighth-crappiest' military base school in the US named in his honor? Source: https://www.bakersfield.com/news/eighth-crappiest-military-base-school-gets-share-of-63-million/article_1c2454dc-942b-58f2-bf2f-df79bb5f5229.html
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Lawrence H. Keeley

Created by Hawkeye7 (talk). Self-nominated at 20:46, 22 May 2022 (UTC).

• Comment: I think "eighth-crappiest" needs to be in the prose, not just the source title. theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (she/they) 18:21, 25 May 2022 (UTC)

  It's not a requirement for DYK, and I didn't think it rated a mention in the article body. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 19:11, 25 May 2022 (UTC)

  @Hawkeye7: doesn't WP:DYK#gen3a say that The hook should include a definite fact that is mentioned in the article? theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (she/they) 07:42, 26 May 2022 (UTC)

  It is in the article. I've seen hooks based on the footnotes before. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 08:04, 26 May 2022 (UTC)

  I agree with theleekycauldron. The information is only in the title of a reference. It doesn't look like it would be complicated to add it to the article body. SL93 (talk) 03:26, 20 June 2022 (UTC)

  @Hawkeye7: This nom has been open for awhile, are you OK with either adding the hook fact to the article, or using a different hook? BuySomeApples (talk) 21:56, 8 July 2022 (UTC)

  I think that if it doesn't merit a mention in the article body like the nominator said, it certainly doesn't merit being mentioned on DYK. SL93 (talk) 21:58, 8 July 2022 (UTC)

• ALT1: ... that Irving L. Branch headed the X-15 rocket program and the first test flight of the B-70 Valkyrie supersonic bomber?

  Source: [1] Hawkeye7 (discuss) 23:19, 8 July 2022 (UTC)

• Full review needed now that a new hook has been proposed. BlueMoonset (talk) 16:13, 9 July 2022 (UTC)

New enough, long enough, well cited, hook directly cited, QPQ complete. I love ALT0 and think it should be added to the article, but ALT1 is probably much more clickable anyway. Maury Markowitz (talk) 16:23, 13 July 2022 (UTC)