Template:Did you know nominations/Howard Henry Peckham

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The result was: promoted by Zanhe (talk) 04:28, 17 April 2016 (UTC)

Howard Henry Peckham

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... that historian Howard Henry Peckham in 1974 discovered that American Revolutionary War deaths were much higher than previously assumed, totaling about 25,000?

Reviewed: Have reviewed many articles, See: User:Gwillhickers/DYK QPQ
Comment: Article created April 7, 2016;

Created by Gwillhickers (talk). Self-nominated at 21:57, 8 April 2016 (UTC).

Date, size, ref, copyvio check, hook neutrality, all fine. GTG. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 06:27, 14 April 2016 (UTC)

Some sentences need to be reworked for close paraphrasing per Earwig's. Yoninah (talk) 22:36, 14 April 2016 (UTC)

@Yoninah: Could you be more specific? Your Earwig's tool has apparently listed 100's of examples of close paraphrasing making it very difficult to find any real issues of close paraphrasing. From what I can see, it has only detected similar and general phrases, common phrases, etc. Was there particular examples involving more than a few words that you feel need attention? -- Gwillhickers (talk) 22:43, 14 April 2016 (UTC)

Source: administering its publication and educational programs, and secretary of the Indiana Historical Society, where he developed its collection of rare books, manuscripts, and maps relating to the history of the Old Northwest Territory.
Article: He was in charge of administering its publication and educational programs. He was also the secretary of the Indiana Historical Society, and developed its collection of rare books, manuscripts, and maps of the history of the Old Northwest Territory.
Source: when combined with a careful estimate of American deaths as British prisoners of war,
Article: when he added them to his careful estimate of American deaths as British prisoners of war,
I think you can find different words and sentence structure to express these facts, or put the words you're copying in quotes. Yoninah (talk) 22:54, 14 April 2016 (UTC)

Done Thanks for looking out. -- Gwillhickers (talk) 19:32, 15 April 2016 (UTC)

Thank you. No close paraphrasing seen. Restoring tick per Piotrus' review and removing non-free image. Tweaked hook to remove redundancy. Good to go. Yoninah (talk) 21:05, 16 April 2016 (UTC)