Talk:James H. Stratton

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The result was: promoted by Vaticidalprophet (talk) 14:37, 6 July 2021 (UTC)

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• ... that Brigadier General James H. Stratton never saw combat in his thirty-year military career, but was still shot once? Source: "During this period he was shot in the chest by an "unloaded" pistol held by a fellow soldier—an incident, as he was to say in later years, that marked the closest he came to gunfire in thirty years' service." ([1], p. 137)
  • ALT1:... that Brigadier General James H. Stratton directed the design of the Eisenhower Tunnel? Source: "He also directed the design of the Eisenhower Memorial vehicle tunnel that passes through the Rockies at Loveland Pass in Colorado" ([2])

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Upright spin
• Comment: Not sure getting shot is that unusual in America, so provided an ALT hook

Created by Hawkeye7 (talk). Self-nominated at 23:09, 30 June 2021 (UTC).

• Hi Hawkeye7, review follows: article created 30 June; article is of sufficient length, well written and cited inline throughout to reliable sources; hooks are interesting (I prefer ALT0), mentioned in the article (I'm assuming the 30 years is a minimum or takes account of disruption from entering West Point, as he served 32) and check out to the sources cited; a QPQ has been completed. My only outstanding query is that there is a bit of similairty between the article and the National Academy of Engineering source which you might like to take a look at,. Appreciate not much can be done about the proper names etc. though - Dumelow (talk) 17:08, 1 July 2021 (UTC)

• NAE source: "Following his retirement from military service, General Stratton was active in community affairs and for seven years was a member of the board of education in Englewood, New Jersey. He was also a member of the Special Curricula Committee, which was appointed to advise the dean of the Department of Civil and Sanitary Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) regarding courses of study for enrolled undergraduates. In addition, for three years General Stratton served as a member of the board of visitors, which met annually to advise this same MIT department on substantive matters significant to the fulfillment of the purposes for which MIT had been established."
• Article: "He was active in community affairs, and was a member of the board of education in Englewood, New Jersey, for seven years. He was a member of the Special Curricula Committee advise the dean of the Department of Civil and Sanitary Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on undergraduate courses, and was on its board of visitors, which met annually to advise the department"

• Tweaks in the wording have reduced the Earwing score to 33.3, so all that is left is proper names. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 19:49, 1 July 2021 (UTC)

Grand - Dumelow (talk) 19:56, 1 July 2021 (UTC)