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A fact from William T. Perkins Jr. appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 9 July 2006. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that William T. Perkins, Jr., a United States Marine who covered an exploding hand grenade with his body, is the only combat photographer to be awarded the Medal of Honor?

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Persondata "infobox" — repeated info removed

I removed the following Persondata "infobox" which had been placed at the bottom of the article.

It contains no additional information to that in the {{tl:Infobox Military Person}}
It did not show up in the article. (Template not functioning correctly??)

The exact text is here ("nowiki" tag added to make visible):

{{Persondata |NAME=Perkins, William Thomas, Jr. |ALTERNATIVE NAMES= |SHORT DESCRIPTION=[[United States Marine]] recipient of the [[Medal of Honor]] |DATE OF BIRTH=[[August 10]] [[1947]] |PLACE OF BIRTH=[[Rochester, New York]] |DATE OF DEATH=[[October 12]] [[1967]] |PLACE OF DEATH=[[Quang Tri]], [[Vietnam]] }}

— ERcheck (talk) 04:40, 9 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It's not actually supposed to show up in the article ;-)

{{Persondata}} is (was?) meant as a way of automatically extracting certain biographical data from articles; the full description is here. I have no idea what the status of that project is, though. Kirill Lokshin 04:44, 9 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for pointing that out. I had never seen it before and it seemed like it was trying to substitute for the Military person infobox. No problem. — ERcheck (talk) 04:53, 9 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]