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A fact from Clotworthy Upton (Royal Navy officer) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 5 June 2022 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Clotworthy Upton, an illegitimate child, could not inherit his father's baronetcy?

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Did you know nomination

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 Theleekycauldron (talk) 09:50, 31 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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... ~~that Clotworthy Upton stopped HMS Tenedos following USS Constitution into the harbour at Marblehead?~~Source: Hore, Peter (2015). Nelson's Band of Brothers: Lives and Memorials. Barnsley.: Seaforth Publishing. p. 94. ISBN 9781848327795.
- ALT1: ... that the bastard Clotworthy Upton could not inherit his father's baronetcy? Source: Hore, Peter (2015). Nelson's Band of Brothers: Lives and Memorials. Barnsley.: Seaforth Publishing. p. 94. ISBN 9781848327795.
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Zorian Dołęga-Chodakowski
- Comment: Nominated using new Wikipedia:Did you know/Create new nomination template, which no doubt was meant to make things easier but doesn't.

Created by Ykraps (talk). Self-nominated at 15:38, 2 May 2022 (UTC). Review[reply]

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: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall:

The approval is for the ALT1 hook which seems much superior to the first one, which I have struck to make the choice clear. Andrew🐉(talk) 17:03, 27 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]