Template:Did you know nominations/Sydney Cumbers

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The result was: promoted by — Crisco 1492 (talk) 04:57, 6 June 2012 (UTC)

Sydney Cumbers

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... that Sydney Cumbers amassed the world's largest collection of historic ships' figureheads (pictured)?

ALT1:... that Long John Silver gave William Wilberforce and Sir Lancelot to a museum in 1953?
Comment: I am sure someone more creative than me can improve on the alternative hook

Created/expanded by Dumelow (talk). Self nom at 08:44, 27 May 2012 (UTC)

Reviewed Template:Did you know nominations/Shirley Reilly - Dumelow (talk) 09:07, 27 May 2012 (UTC)

ALT 2: ... that Sydney Cumbers was nicknamed "Long John Silver" because he wore an eyepatch to conceal his missing eye that he lost when he was a child?

Created Alt 2 for you. --George Ho (talk) 23:21, 1 June 2012 (UTC)

Article is big enough, ~~but not new enough, created on 5th April, and expanded roughly 2 times in the week before nomination~~. However the prep areas always seem to be short of articles, and this is a good one. I like the original hook best so far. This original hook is interesting, in the article cited and two references confirm it. The picture is free However a different crop of the picture may make a clearer DYK image. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 10:36, 5 June 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for reviewing. Note that the article was created in my userspace and was only moved to mainspace on 27 May (this is allowed per rule F3). Sorry, I usually mention this when I nom them but forgot in this case. Feel free to crop the image as necessary - Dumelow (talk) 11:13, 5 June 2012 (UTC)

Sorry about that One second check I spotted the move. In that case good to go. with a green tick