A fact from Joseph Thomas (surveyor) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 23 March 2013 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
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The bot is a bit overzealous. It's probably not appropriate for me to remove that notification myself. Schwede66 19:42, 16 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Well, it might not be appropriate for me to remove the message, but I'm getting a bit sick of it, nobody appears to be attending to it, and so I shall go ahead. For the record, I suppose what the bot is concerned about is the name "19th (1st Yorkshire, North Riding) Regiment of Foot", which consists of many words and thus triggers some threshold. If you have concerns about my actions, please bring that up here. Schwede66 06:52, 19 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
