Template:Did you know nominations/Freddie Gilroy and the Belsen Stragglers

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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 22:17, 5 September 2020 (UTC)

Freddie Gilroy and the Belsen Stragglers

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Freddie Gilroy and the Belsen Stragglers

... that Freddie Gilroy and the Belsen Stragglers on Scarborough seafront depicts, in twice lifesize, an old man on a bench? "double-scale park bench ... what the visitor sees is an old man sat on a bench" from:Nesfield, Victoria. Mediating Peace: Reconciliation through Visual Art, Music and Film. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. pp. 39–40. ISBN 978-1-4438-8775-5.
- ALT1:... that a statue in Scarborough serves as a memorial to a man who helped liberate Bergen-Belsen concentration camp? "The piece, called Freddie Gilroy and the Belsen Stragglers, is based on the former miner who was one of the first Allied soldiers to enter the Belsen concentration camp on its liberation in World War II." from: "Pensioner buys sculpture for town". BBC News. 10 December 2011. Retrieved 24 August 2020.

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/WJJZ (AM)

Moved to mainspace by Dumelow (talk). Self-nominated at 08:13, 24 August 2020 (UTC).

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:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: - Offline/paywalled citation accepted in good faith Interesting:

Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
Freely licensed: Used in article: Clear at 100px:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Nice article, meets requirements. I would not usually consider Cambridge Scholars Publishing a RS but for a non-controversial detail, it should be OK. (t · c) buidhe 02:24, 25 August 2020 (UTC)

Thanks buidhe. Just a note that the author seems reliable enough for this subject as an academic at the University of York specialising in holocaust studies - Dumelow (talk) 04:27, 25 August 2020 (UTC)