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A fact from Brian van Mentz appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 16 May 2020 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that flying ace Brian van Mentz survived the Battle of Britain, but was killed by a bomb that fell on a pub?

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Did you know nomination

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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 10:13, 12 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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... that Brian van Mentz survived the Battle of Britain but was killed by a bomb falling on a pub he was in? Source: Aces High, Shores, 1994
- ALT1:... that Brian van Mentz, a Battle of Britain ace, was killed while he was at a pub? Source: "Aces High, Shores, 1994

Reviewed: Joint Attack Helicopter Instrumented Evaluation
Comment: Earwig is showing the DFC as a copyvio, although I put it in quotes and in a blockquote section

Created by Gbawden (talk). Self-nominated at 08:55, 19 April 2020 (UTC).[reply]

Did a quick copyedit of the hooks since there were no links to the relevant articles, but will leave the review to another editor. Narutolovehinata5 ^tccsdnew 12:24, 19 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Gbawden: This looks good, but there is one issue: epicgenius (talk) 19:01, 19 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Epicgenius: Thanks. I think I have reworded what I can. Will check for blank spaces Gbawden (talk) 07:19, 20 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- @Gbawden: No problem. I think it is better now, and good to go. epicgenius (talk) 14:00, 20 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy compliance:

Adequate sourcing:
Neutral:
Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing: - Notwithstanding the blockquote, there are a few sentences that may need to be paraphrased, per analysis. E.g. "Junkers Ju87 (confirmed) and a Henschel Hs126 (unconfirmed) on 15th May."
Other problems: - There are a few things that might need to be cleaned up per MOS (e.g. no spaces before commas) but this can be easily fixed.

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall:

epicgenius (talk) 19:01, 19 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]