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A fact from Andrew Gillison appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 31 August 2024 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that Australian military chaplain Andrew Gillison(pictured) took up arms to snipe at Turkish soldiers in Gallipoli?
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.
... that Australian military chaplain Andrew Gillison died on 22 August 1915 of wounds sustained while trying to rescue an injured soldier from no mans land?
Source: I've cited it to a book that had more detail but you can get the outline readily from: >McKernan, Michael. "Andrew Gillison (1868–1915)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. Retrieved 16 July 2024.
ALT1: ... that Australian military chaplain Andrew Gillison took up arms to snipe at Turkish soldiers in Gallipoli? Source: "Gillison used his well tried target-shooting skills to participate enthusiastically in sniping and counter sniping" from: Walter, John (28 February 2019). The Sniper Encyclopaedia: An A-Z Guide to World Sniping. Casemate Publishers. p. 236. ISBN978-1-78438-242-1.
Overall: Image is public domain, article is new and sourced. Plagiarism checker flags are down to a few quotations and key facts - free of copyvio. My preference for hook would be ALT5 below, or ALT1. Arcahaeoindris (talk) 02:41, 20 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Arcahaeoindris, can you review the paraphrasing please. I reworded "appointed a part-time chaplain to the Australian military" from the lead which in summarising the article I had returned to wording close to the source. The rest of the things flagged look to be proper names of organisations or quotes which I have attributed in the article. Can you please advise on the neutrality issue, is it a concern with WP:NPOV of the article? If with the hook then the requirement at Wikipedia:Did_you_know/Guidelines only applies to living persons. That he took up arms whilst being a chaplain was certainly the most interesting fact in the article for me. Happy to look at alternatives though, I have drafted the one you recommended and a couple of others below - Dumelow (talk) 06:20, 20 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
ALT2:... that, on 22 August 1915, Andrew Gillison became the only Australian chaplain to be killed in the Gallipoli campaign? (source: "Gillison was the only chaplain killed at Gallipoli but all knew that they risked death constantly" source: Defence Force Journal. Department of Defence. 1989. p. 81.. NB: Defence Force Journal is published by the Australian Department of Defence, so is written from that point of view. I know of William Jospeh Finn, a British chaplain that was killed there.)
ALT4: ... that among the last words in the diary of chaplain Andrew Gillison before his death at Gallipoli were "I never beheld such a sickening sight in my life and hope it may not be my lot again"? (Source " 'I never beheld such a sickening sight in my life and hope it may not be my lot again'. His diary ends on that sad note" from: McKernan, Michael. "Andrew Gillison (1868–1915)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. Retrieved 16 July 2024.. You can also read the diary itself at "Wallet 1 of 1 - Diary relating to the service of Chaplain Andrew Gillison, 1914 - 1915 Page 147/147". Australian War Memorial. Retrieved 16 July 2024. it is the penultimate sentence)
Sorry @Z1720: for keeping you. I find ALT1 and ALT5 the most interesting - maybe ALT5 would be my first choice. However, there is still possible copyvio detected, above 40% for three different sources, see here. Arcahaeoindris (talk) 12:30, 5 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Arcahaeoindris, if you look at what is being flagged by the automated tool it is largely proper names and quotations I have attributed in the article. I am happy to look at any particular instances you think are problematic but you cannot just rely on the raw output of the tool - Dumelow (talk) 08:36, 6 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Does actively fighting while under the official status of a non-combatant not constitute a violation of The Hague/Geneva conventions, i.e., a war crime? 77.183.179.27 (talk) 09:25, 31 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]