Template:Did you know nominations/Jack G. Downing

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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 05:38, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

Jack G. Downing

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... that Jack G. Downing, the only person to serve as CIA station chief in Moscow and Beijing, "read Chinese poetry for kicks"? Source: Los Angeles Times
- ALT1:... that Jack G. Downing brought back parachute training for operations officers, reasoning that "ordinary people are not inclined to jump out of an airplane, and we are not looking for ordinary people"? Source: The Washington Post

Reviewed: Windermere (submarine)
Comment: Eligible per Rule 1d, because it is only scheduled to appear in the "Recent Deaths" section of ITN and not as a bold link.

5x expanded by Bloom6132 (talk). Self-nominated at 10:54, 1 July 2021 (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:

New article, solid sourcing and all requirements met. Earwig only picked up false positives (date spans, quotes and agency names). The hooks are cited and both are pretty interesting although I'm partial to ALT1 personally. BuySomeApples (talk) 07:39, 29 July 2021 (UTC)