Template:Did you know nominations/Frank Borman

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 Cwmhiraeth (talk) 05:54, 27 June 2019 (UTC)

Frank Borman[edit]

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Frank Borman suiting up on Apollo 8 launch day

... that Frank Borman (pictured) is the oldest living American astronaut? Source: "Lovell’s birthday was Sunday, and Borman celebrated his latest trip around the sun on March 14. The two nonagenarians, who were crew mates on Gemini 7 and Apollo 8, are the oldest of the surviving Apollo astronauts. The rest of their compatriots are all in the 80’s." ([1])

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Yuri Gagarin
Comment: Image is croppped version of the one in the article

Improved to Good Article status by Hawkeye7 (talk). Self-nominated at 12:26, 18 June 2019 (UTC).

Article is a newly promoted GA, long enough, neutral, and well referenced. Hook is interesting and verified with supplied source. Image is PD and looks good. QPQ is done. Earwig reports close paraphrasing issues with several websites, but upon close inspection, they all source their text from the official NASA bio, which is PD, so not a problem. Nice work and good to go! -Zanhe (talk) 06:44, 19 June 2019 (UTC)

@Hawkeye7: why is this nomination listed for a July 1 special occasion hook? Should it be in the July 21 Moon landing set? Or does it need to be a special occasion at all? Yoninah (talk) 13:24, 23 June 2019 (UTC)
See User talk:Hawkeye7#Frank Borman DYK for details. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 20:43, 23 June 2019 (UTC)

OK, I understand. July 1 it is! Yoninah (talk) 22:55, 23 June 2019 (UTC)

@Hawkeye7: we now have a special occasion multi-hook for July 1, Canada Day, which should go in the image slot. Can we run this a different day? Yoninah (talk) 20:20, 24 June 2019 (UTC)

I think a photo spot is more preferable than the date. --- Coffeeandcrumbs 20:30, 24 June 2019 (UTC)