Talk:James B. Jones

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A fact from James B. Jones appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 6 January 2023 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that James B. Jones got his nickname, "Jawbone", from his time as a traveling soap salesman?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2023/January. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/James B. Jones.

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Latest comment: 1 year ago3 comments3 people in discussion

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 Bruxton (talk) 22:58, 26 December 2022 (UTC)Reply

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... that James B. Jones got his nickname, "Jawbone", from his time as a traveling soap salesman? Source: [1]
- Reviewed: Claiming the fifth DYK credit of nine from the nine-article hook at Template:Did you know nominations/Arellano Chiefs basketball

Created by Muboshgu (talk). Self-nominated at 17:16, 26 December 2022 (UTC).Reply

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

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Epicgenius (talk) 18:31, 26 December 2022 (UTC)Reply

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Latest comment: 1 year ago1 comment1 person in discussion

talking about giant Captain James b Jones trying to find some ancestors of his he was a dentist in the first or the second world war I've got boots spurs too that found. 2601:483:781:5020:68D8:CC4A:BC4F:68D0 (talk) 01:26, 11 May 2023 (UTC)Reply

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