- 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 Theleekycauldron (talk) 06:34, 30 September 2021 (UTC)
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Delphian Club
- ... that the Delphian Club designated John Neal as Magister Facetiarum of the Office of the Joke Master General? Source: Pages 77–78 of The Life and Works of John Neal says "After the first year, Neal is, of course, regularly designated by his 'clubicular' name of Jehu O'Cataract. He also acquired several offices. On December 20, 1817, the Club voted 'That there shall be, in the Delphian Club, an office to be called the office of Joke Master General, or Magister Facetiarum.... Jehu O'Cataract was appointed to fill said office."
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Lady Glenorchy's Church
- Comment: Thank you in advance for taking the time to review my nomination!
Created by Dugan Murphy (talk). Self-nominated at 19:08, 8 September 2021 (UTC).
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Policy compliance:
- Adequate sourcing:
- Generally fine, but I couldn't quite verify "Neal's clubicular name recognized his prodigious literary output and others' were often derived from their personalities or professions." Appleby refers to Neal's clubicular name ("O'Cataract") but does not mention the Delphian Club as far as I can see. - Neutral:
- Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing: -
There is some WP:CLOPping from "The Delphian Club", but that should be fine because it recently entered the public domain (at least if public domain in the United States is to be believed). You might want to flag that with {{PD-notice}}. - Other problems:
Hook eligibility:
- Cited: -
I have to AGF on this because, despite my access to a university library, I don't have access to the relevant thesis. Unsurprisingly, a Google search for "Magister Facetiarum" does not turn anything useful up. - Interesting:
- Other problems:
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Overall: 
A lovely read—thank you. Issues flagged above should be fairly easy to address, I think. This should be a quirky if the promoter can manage it. AleatoryPonderings (???) (!!!) 23:44, 20 September 2021 (UTC)
- @AleatoryPonderings: Thanks for the review and for the edits to the article – especially for catching that one citation with the wrong page number. Much appreciated. You're right about my use of the Appleby citation. I just replaced that citation with another that better expresses what is in that sentence (now two sentences because of some copy edit). I also added a {{PD-notice}} to the Uhler reference, as you recommended. I believe all your issues have now been addressed! Since you're assuming good faith on my use of the Richards dissertation, I believe you'll need to replace your comment there with "y" so this nomination can pass. Dugan Murphy (talk) 14:03, 22 September 2021 (UTC)
- Thanks for addressing my comments. Good to go from my perspective. AleatoryPonderings (???) (!!!) 15:55, 22 September 2021 (UTC)