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A fact from Arthur Bedford appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 26 May 2011 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Arthur Bedford commanded HMS Kent in the 1914 Battle of the Falkland Islands and sank the German cruiser Nürnberg?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2011/May.

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I think this is quite close to B-Class, just a few suggestions:

The Early life section header should perhaps be changed to Family and early life since it goes into his relations a fair bit.
The info under the Honours and Publications sections should probably just be merged into his Career details, since there's only one entry under each of those sections, to satisfy the B-Class structure criterion.
Like to see a bit more about what he actually did in WWII, to satisfy the B-Class coverage criterion.

Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 03:04, 2 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]