Talk:William Nicholas (officer)
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![]() | A fact from William Nicholas (officer) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 30 January 2023 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
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[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 SL93 (talk) 01:27, 22 January 2023 (UTC)
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- ... that during the bloody Siege of Badajoz William Nicholas (pictured) was wounded by musket-ball and bayonet, but continued to give orders, and was carried up the breach, only to be shot again? Source: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Nicholas,_William
- Reviewed: N/A
- Comment: I've only nominated 2 articles for DYK without doing a QPQ, so technically I have 1 more freebie left after this one
Created by Ficaia (talk). Self-nominated at 23:17, 5 December 2022 (UTC).
Hook fact needs to be directly cited in the article. Currently only a range of pages is given at the end of the paragraph (this can also apply to the rest of the article, which is sparsely cited). Also, I don't believe that text copied verbatim from a public domain source counts towards the 1,500 character requirement, even if there's no copyvio. (So I would not even consider the article "long enough"). Cheers, KINGofLETTUCE 👑 🥬 11:19, 9 December 2022 (UTC)
- I'm working on expanding the article to hopefully meet the length requirement. 𝕱𝖎𝖈𝖆𝖎𝖆 (talk) 09:40, 14 December 2022 (UTC)
- @Kingoflettuce: I think this should meet the 1500 character length requirement now. 𝕱𝖎𝖈𝖆𝖎𝖆 (talk) 09:46, 15 December 2022 (UTC)
Needs another reviewer. BorgQueen (talk) 13:50, 4 January 2023 (UTC)
Article looks good. Hook is interesting enough for me to approve. Onegreatjoke (talk) 18:42, 11 January 2023 (UTC)
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