- 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 BlueMoonset (talk) 06:29, 2 February 2020 (UTC)
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Henry Eastburn
- ... that Henry Eastburn studied under his uncle, John Smeaton, before undertaking his own civil engineering projects such as the Basingstoke Canal? "[Eastburn] became an apprentice or pupil of Smeaton in 1768" (Skempton, 2002, p203); "Henry Eastburn [...] was nephew to John Smeaton" (Royal Society, undated, "Windmill, Sykefield"); "Eastburn's first big job came in [1790] when he was appointed resident engineer on the Basingstoke Canal" (Skempton, 2002, p203)
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Template:Did you know nominations/Pitfalls—I have stepped back from this review so will endeavour to undertake a new one. MIDI (talk) 09:50, 20 January 2020 (UTC)
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Created by MIDI (talk). Self-nominated at 12:43, 13 January 2020 (UTC).
This article is new enough and long enough. The hook facts are cited inline, the article is neutral and I detected no copyright issues. I would have counted your QPQ as adequate but there are over 100 unreviewed nominations, so I had better wait to approve this nomination until you have done one. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 09:43, 21 January 2020 (UTC)
Thank you, good to go. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 13:30, 21 January 2020 (UTC)
