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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 Allen3 talk 09:05, 28 April 2014 (UTC)

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Albert Levy (soldier)[edit]

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  • ... that Bert "Yank" Levy, who taught the British Home Guard and coauthored one of the first books on Guerrilla Warfare, said you could use a cheese cutter as a weapon?
  • QPQ: I owe you.

5x expanded by 7&6=thirteen (talk). Self nominated at 23:58, 20 April 2014‎ (UTC).

  • Fixed up the template: next time, please use the form near the top of T:TDYK to create it. DYKcheck gives the current size of the article at 10376 prose characters, about 3.5x over the 2892 prose characters the article contained just before expansion began on April 16. The article will need to be increased to 14460 prose characters to achieve the required 5x expansion. Given that 4084 additional characters are needed, it doesn't make sense to continue the review until this has been done, and the required QPQ supplied. BlueMoonset (talk) 05:17, 21 April 2014 (UTC)
Fixed. I self nominated based on a 5X expansion. By my rough count, excluding citations, block quotes, footnotes and tables, etc. prose characters were 2496 on April 15, and are 15394 currently. The article went from 5729 to 42,004 total characters. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 15:16, 22 April 2014 (UTC)
Comment: Even with the standard DYK check tool, the article is now 5x expanded. --Pgallert (talk) 08:53, 24 April 2014 (UTC)
  • This article is a fivefold expansion and is new enough and now long enough. The hook fact is mentioned in a block quote which is cited at the end to an online source requiring a subscription. This means I am unable to verify it, instead accepting it in good faith. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:31, 27 April 2014 (UTC)


Put text from Time Magazine article on reviewers page. Could not e-mail it to them, as that option was not available. I would also like to figure out how to put in the equivalent of a Permalink from the TIME magazine website into the article. I am a subscriber, but I can't figure out the options they present. The options they present are: Facebook Twitter Tumblr LinkedIn StumbleUpon Reddit Digg Mixx Del.i.cious Google+ Reprints. If anyone has insight, I would appreciate it. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 16:54, 27 April 2014 (UTC)
I didn't doubt the veracity of the claim. Oftentimes in DYK the source is not available to the reviewer and we assume good faith and accept the hook fact, unless perhaps it seems particularly outlandish. :-) Cwmhiraeth (talk) 17:34, 27 April 2014 (UTC)

I didn't think you did. But youi really shouldn't have to take my word for it. Meanwhile, I have contacted TIME magazine and asked them how to generate a "Permalink" 7&6=thirteen (☎) 17:45, 27 April 2014 (UTC)

Before this is promoted, it would be good if we could finally decide whether the article should be called "Yank" Levy or Bert Levy. Except for wikipedia, so far as I can tell, he was never called Albert Levy. I would also acknowledge that there is a slight controversy over his birth name, as more fully noted on the talk page. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 18:01, 27 April 2014 (UTC)
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