- 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 AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 11:45, 29 June 2023 (UTC)
Victor Verity
- ... that after Victor Verity crash-landed his plane in Norrent-Fontes and travelled back to England, he discovered that he had been reported as being missing in action? Source: Wynn, Kenneth G. (1981). A Clasp for 'The Few': New Zealanders with the Battle of Britain Clasp. Auckland: Kenneth G. Wynn. ISBN 0-86-465-0256. Pages 400-401 , Shores, Christopher; Williams, Clive (1994). Aces High: A Tribute to the Most Notable Fighter Pilots of the British and Commonwealth Forces in WWII. London: Grub Street. ISBN 1-898697-00-0. Pages 606-607 , Lambert, Max (2011). Day After Day: New Zealanders in Fighter Command. Auckland: HarperCollins Publishers. ISBN 978-1-86950-844-9. Page 59
Improved to Good Article status by Zawed (talk). Nominated by Onegreatjoke (talk) at 22:15, 14 May 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Victor Verity; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.
- Should there be a hyphen in crash landed (crash-landed)? Edward-Woodrow (talk) 03:19, 18 May 2023 (UTC)
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| Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
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No copyright/plagiarism issues. I could not access any of the sources on the Internet Archive or Google Books, so I am assuming good faith. The dyk fact is interesting. In addition to changing "crash landed" to "crash-landed", I reworded the hook slightly. This nomination is ready.
Tkbrett (✉) 12:40, 9 June 2023 (UTC)
No copyright/plagiarism issues. I could not access any of the sources on the Internet Archive or Google Books, so I am assuming good faith. The dyk fact is interesting. In addition to changing "crash landed" to "crash-landed", I reworded the hook slightly. This nomination is ready. Tkbrett (✉) 12:40, 9 June 2023 (UTC)