Template:Did you know nominations/1959 San Diego F3H crash

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 Yoninah (talk) 11:29, 11 October 2019 (UTC)

1959 San Diego F3H crash

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F3H-2N Demon of Fighter Squadron VF-121 in 1956

... that in 1959, an estimated 700 people were saved when Ensign Albert Hickman stayed with his stalled aircraft? Source: San Diego Union-Tribune , 2 December 2011
- ALT1:... that an elementary school in Mira Mesa is named after a pilot who steered an ill-fated aircraft away from an elementary school in Clairemont? Source: San Diego Reader, 19 April 2011
- ALT2:... that unlike a 2008 crash, the pilot of a 1959 crash stayed with his aircraft, saving lives of those on the ground? Source: San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 December 2008
- ALT3:... that a naval aviator buried in Sioux City, Iowa died while saving the lives of hundreds in the Clairemont neighborhood of San Diego? Source: KMEG, 28 May 2017

Reviewed: Somalia at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Comment: Article was created on 22 August, from work done in a user sandbox. It has 3,373 characters of prose (not counting spaces). If seen as an expansion of the article Albert Hickman (pilot) it is expanded more than 5x that stub article's 469 characters of prose (not counting spaces). All suggested hooks are cited to a reliable source. Each sentence in the article is cited to a reliable source meeting verifiability requirements. ECD rates the article as initially written at 23.1% due to a direct quote being utilized in a note. QPQ has been done prior to the nomination. Image suggested for the DYK is used in the article's infobox and is in the public domain. When approved, I request that the DYK be held until 4 December, to coincide with the anniversary of the event which is the subject of the article.

Created/expanded by RightCowLeftCoast (talk). Self-nominated at 06:16, 23 August 2019 (UTC).

Review by Maile

QPQ

QPQs provided by editor, and has not been used on any other nomination

Eligibility

DYK Check tool verifies 3793 characters (626 words) "readable prose size", created on August 23, 2019
Noted nominator's comment above about this being a reworking of the Albert Hickman, which is now a redirect to this page. DYK Check says the Hickman page only had 567 characters, so even taking that into account, this nomination qualifies.

Sourcing

All verifiable sourcing used.

Hook

Hook sourcing linked on nomination page, and verified
Original hook is 108 characters
ALT1 is 139 characters
ALT2 is 113 characters
ALT3 is 132 characters

Images

Hook image is in the article, uploaded on Commons as Public Domain as created by the US Navy
The other article image is uploaded on Commons as Public Domain released by the United States Marine Corps

Copyvio check

Spot check shows no issues of concern
Earwig's tool shows no issues of concern

Good to go on all above issues. — Maile (talk) 15:11, 26 August 2019 (UTC)

@Maile66, BlueMoonset, and Gatoclass: Is it possible to hold this for the main page on 4 December, that'll be the 60th anniversary of the crash.--RightCowLeftCoast (Moo) 02:02, 28 August 2019 (UTC)

RightCowLeftCoast, the maximum lead time for special occasions is supposed to be six weeks, and exceptions are few and far between. This would be about fourteen weeks. You can always ask at WT:DYK; leniency is always possible. Best of luck. BlueMoonset (talk) 06:02, 28 August 2019 (UTC)

Just for the record for any prep promoter who sees this, I have no issue with this being held until December 4. — Maile (talk) 23:01, 1 September 2019 (UTC)

Has this special date request been discussed at WT:DYK yet? Otherwise I'm ready to promote it now. Yoninah (talk) 12:17, 6 October 2019 (UTC)

Apologies. Offline responsibilities have kept me from editing on Wikipedia and elsewhere along the Wikimedia pages, to include an illness in family. The special date request was discussed, but the long hold time was not favored by the majority of those involved in the discussion. I was not with the majority on this. Thanks @Yoninah:, promote this as is seen fit.--RightCowLeftCoast (Moo) 08:49, 11 October 2019 (UTC)