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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 Lightburst (talk) 19:07, 14 August 2023 (UTC)

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Winston Churchill's pets

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Churchill caricature in the 1912 Punch cartoon "Dogg'd"
Churchill caricature in the 1912 Punch cartoon "Dogg'd"
  • ... that Winston Churchill was often portrayed as a bulldog (pictured) but his personal pet dog during the Second World War was a poodle? Source: Review of War Dogs, "Winston Churchill and ... his miniature poodle, Rufus. Churchill was often compared to a bulldog due to his tenacity, and one of his nicknames was the British Bulldog."

5x expanded by Andrew Davidson (talk) and Cielquiparle (talk). Nominated by Andrew Davidson (talk) at 22:30, 2 August 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Winston Churchill's pets; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.

  • Comment Nominator seems not to be aware of the rule that specifies hook image needs to be from the article. Dahn (talk) 09:56, 3 August 2023 (UTC)
  • I am familiar with this requirement but was waiting for the AfD to close before investing more effort in the article. That has now been done and so I have resumed expanding the topic, adding that and other pictures. There's still more to be done as I haven't got to the budgies or butterflies yet and there's more still after that. More anon. Andrew🐉(talk) 15:45, 7 August 2023 (UTC)
  • Reviewing jengod (talk) 18:37, 11 August 2023 (UTC)


General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
QPQ: Done.

Overall: Honored to review a classically idiosyncratic Wikipedia article that melds populism with substance. And the submitter's QPQ topic was just the same. Stay weird, fam. Cheers. jengod (talk) 19:25, 11 August 2023 (UTC)

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