Talk:Jack G. Downing
Latest comment: 3 years ago by Cwmhiraeth in topic Did you know nomination
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 | A news item involving Jack G. Downing was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the In the news section on 3 July 2021. |  |
 | A fact from Jack G. Downing appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 5 August 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
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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 Cwmhiraeth (talk) 05:38, 3 August 2021 (UTC)
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- ... that Jack G. Downing, the only person to serve as CIA station chief in Moscow and Beijing, "read Chinese poetry for kicks"? Source: Los Angeles Times
- ALT1:... that Jack G. Downing brought back parachute training for operations officers, reasoning that "ordinary people are not inclined to jump out of an airplane, and we are not looking for ordinary people"? Source: The Washington Post
- Reviewed: Windermere (submarine)
- Comment: Eligible per Rule 1d, because it is only scheduled to appear in the "Recent Deaths" section of ITN and not as a bold link.
5x expanded by Bloom6132 (talk). Self-nominated at 10:54, 1 July 2021 (UTC).
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New article, solid sourcing and all requirements met. Earwig only picked up false positives (date spans, quotes and agency names). The hooks are cited and both are pretty interesting although I'm partial to ALT1 personally. BuySomeApples (talk) 07:39, 29 July 2021 (UTC)