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A fact from Robert Home (officer) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 16 December 2022 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Robert Home was sent by the British Army to Canada in 1864 to report on the defence of the frontier against the eventuality of an American invasion?

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The result was: promoted by Theleekycauldron (talk) 00:00, 7 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Likeness engraved from a photograph

... that Robert Home (pictured) was sent by the British Army to Canada in 1864 to report on the defence of the frontier against the eventuality of an American invasion? Source: (1) https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Home,_Robert_(1837-1879) (2) https://archive.org/details/historycorpsroy00watsgoog/page/532/mode/2up?view=theater
- ALT1: ... that Robert Home (pictured) worked on the delimitation of the new boundaries of Bulgaria from 1877 until shortly before his death in 1879? Source: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Home,_Robert_(1837-1879)
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Tang Zonghai

Created by Ficaia (talk). Self-nominated at 13:51, 2 December 2022 (UTC).[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:

Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
Freely licensed: Used in article: Clear at 100px:

QPQ: - ?
Overall: @Ficaia: Good article. Article is sourced, hooks are interesting, and the QPQ is somewhat done. However the image needs some caption text for me to approve. Also i'm not exactly sure if you approved the qpq because you have a symbol there but there's no negative omments you made. Onegreatjoke (talk) 15:46, 2 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Onegreatjoke: I've fixed the QPQ and added a caption. 𝕱𝖎𝖈𝖆𝖎𝖆 (talk) 15:50, 2 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Alright, approving. Onegreatjoke (talk) 18:03, 2 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Ficaia: could the information for ALT0 be cited at end of the sentence in the article? theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (she/her) 23:28, 6 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Theleekycauldron: Done. 𝕱𝖎𝖈𝖆𝖎𝖆 (talk) 23:52, 6 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]