Talk:John Woollett

A fact from John Woollett appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 16 August 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that former British Army Commando major-general John Woollett later became a planning inspector?

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Did you know nomination[edit]

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 Kingsif (talk) 04:19, 11 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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... that former British Army Commando Major-General John Woollett later became a planning inspector? "Woollett took part in raids in Norway with No 6 Commando before returning to the Corps to command 16 Field Squadron in 1942 ... he was Chief Engineer HQ BAOR from 1967 to 1970 in the rank of major-general ... he served with the Department of the Environment until 1980 as a principal planning inspector" from: "Maj-Gen John Woollett". Daily Telegraph. 25 June 2007. Retrieved 22 July 2021.
- ALT1:... that John Woollett was chief engineer for the 1956 British Operation Grapple thermonuclear tests? "He was therefore the natural choice for chief engineer for the British hydrogen bomb tests, based on Christmas Island (now Kiritimati) in the latter half of the 1950s." from: "Major General John Woollett". The Times. 3 July 2007. Retrieved 22 July 2021.

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/UEFA Euro 1980 Final

Moved to mainspace by Dumelow (talk). Self-nominated at 13:59, 23 July 2021 (UTC).[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

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QPQ: Done.

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Good to go with main or ALT1 Hawkeye7 (discuss) 04:30, 24 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]