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The result was: rejected by BlueMoonset (talk) 03:00, 8 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Article has been tagged as copyvio and cannot proceed at DYK.

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... that, in 1945, a Canadian woman named Joan Bamford Fletcher took command of a force of surrendered Japanese soldiers and used them to escort 2,000 Dutch civilian internees to safety? Source: Millar, Ruth (2004). Saskatchewan Heroes & Rogues. Coteau Books. p. 133-145. ISBN 978-1550502893.

Created by Jiffles1 (talk). Self-nominated at 17:53, 7 July 2021 (UTC).[reply]

New enough, long enough, and well sourced. Interesting hook, adequately sourced. Accepting offline source AGF. This appears to be nominator's first DYK, perhaps surprisingly as they are a long-term editor, so no QPQ is needed. However, the article contains significant amounts of text copied from a copyrighted document, [1]. Examples: "wanted to serve, but military branches for Canadian women did not yet exist", "In October, she was assigned to [go to] the Dutch East Indies [now] Indonesia to evacuate the civilian internment camp at Bangkinang", "all of whom had to be moved through mountainous jungle to the coastal city of Padang for safety and medical care. [However], there were no Allied personnel available in the region at the time." This is unacceptable and I have tagged the article as a copyvio. It cannot be listed in DYK in this form. —David Eppstein (talk) 23:22, 7 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]