Template:Did you know nominations/Warren Richard Colvin Wynne
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The result was: promoted by Theleekycauldron (talk) 23:22, 6 December 2022 (UTC)
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Warren Richard Colvin Wynne
W. R. C. Wynne
- ... that W. R. C. Wynne (pictured) oversaw the building of Fort Tenedos and Fort Ekowe during the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879? Source: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Wynne,_Warren_Richard_Colvin
- ALT1 ... that while hemmed in at Ekowe during the Anglo-Zulu War, W. R. C. Wynne (pictured) attempted to respond to heliograph signals by means of a signalling screen and a balloon?
Created by Ficaia (talk). Self-nominated at 11:50, 28 November 2022 (UTC).
New enough, long enough, neutral and well-cited. The article is largely built from public domain (copyright expired) sources, and although WP:PARAPHRASE permits close paraphrasing of such sources, Earwig indicates they've been heartily reworded anyway, so no issues there. I gave the article a pretty thorough copyedit as some phrases struck me as old-timely; feel free to fix where I've overstepped. Hook fact is not tremendously interesting. Got any alternatives Ficaia? (The heliograph bit seemed interesting to me.) DigitalIceAge (talk) 17:52, 28 November 2022 (UTC)
- @DigitalIceAge: I've added an alternate hook above. 𝕱𝖎𝖈𝖆𝖎𝖆 (talk) 18:08, 28 November 2022 (UTC)
Much better. Approve ALT1. DigitalIceAge (talk) 18:13, 28 November 2022 (UTC)
