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Good articleHMS Highlander (H44) has been listed as one of the Warfare good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.
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December 16, 2011Good article nomineeListed
Did You Know
A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on December 21, 2011.
The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that the British destroyer HMS Highlander (pictured) escorted Convoy SC 122 through the largest convoy battle of World War II in March 1943 and was unsuccessfully attacked by U-441 and U-608?

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Err, why was the perfectly good listing of Denys Rayner's book removed? He was her captain for a substantial chunk of time during WWII, his book is a primary source, it contains extensive material on her (pp. 188-217), etc? Noel (talk) 22:07, 5 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I'd never heard of neither the book, nor the author before.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 22:39, 5 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Well, we do have a pretty lengthy article on him (he's fairly notable). Also, the preface to his book contains some very nice words by no less a writer on the subject than Roskill (quoted in our Rayner article, in the "Writer" section). With all that in hand, do you object to putting the reference back? (And maybe in the future you might want to be a bit slower to remove refernces to books you've never seen - since you clearly can't have a good handle on whether they are good references if you haven't ever seen them...) Noel (talk) 23:19, 5 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Look at the article.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 13:43, 6 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]