Template:Did you know nominations/Army Printing and Stationery Service

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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 14:35, 31 March 2019 (UTC)

Army Printing and Stationery Service

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• ... that a British army unit was sent to the Western Front of the First World War to distribute stationery? "a 'Base Stationery Depot' ... accompanied British troops to France in August 1914" (page 6) "Partridge's first task was to unpack and distribute a mass of stationery stores" (page 180)

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Moved to mainspace by Dumelow (talk). Self-nominated at 19:45, 21 February 2019 (UTC).

• This interesting article is new enough and long enough. The hook facts are cited inline, the article is neutral and I detected no copyright issues. All we are waiting for is the QPQ. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 20:47, 27 February 2019 (UTC)

Hi Cwmhiraeth, thanks for your review. I've started a QPQ at Template:Did you know nominations/Lloyd Chalker - Dumelow (talk) 22:27, 28 February 2019 (UTC)

• Thank you. Good to go. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 05:56, 1 March 2019 (UTC)

• If you want to run this on AFD, a better hook might be

ALT1 ... that the Stationery Service had mobile motorcycle-mounted mechanics?

Not the best, but at least it's withing striking distance. EEng 02:46, 18 March 2019 (UTC)

How about we simplify that a bit:

ALT2: that mobile mechanics were needed for the stationery service?

- admittedly not a side-splitter but an amusing little play on words. Gatoclass (talk) 02:26, 21 March 2019 (UTC).

Yes, that's better. I have an alliteration addiction and got wrapped up in the m's. EEng 03:05, 21 March 2019 (UTC)

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.

Overall: As ALT2 is just a truncated version of ALT1, which was submitted by another user, I think ALT2 can be considered somebody else's hook for verification purposes and I have therefore verified it. Gatoclass (talk) 14:14, 31 March 2019 (UTC)