Template:Did you know nominations/Basil Cardew
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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 19:15, 18 December 2018 (UTC)
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Basil Cardew
[edit]- ... that Basil Cardew, whose father was killed in a road accident, became one of the pre-eminent motoring journalists in Britain?
- ALT1:... that British motoring journalist Basil Cardew, owned a camel hair coat, a "rakish trilby" hat, and was a "lavish spender of his paper's expenses"?
- Reviewed: Ojos de Mar
Created by Philafrenzy (talk) and Whispyhistory (talk). Nominated by Philafrenzy (talk) at 18:32, 21 November 2018 (UTC).
The article is long and new enough with no copyright violations. I think that the original hook is the most interesting, but the second part isn't actually in the article. I'm not sure that Family Search is considered a reliable source. SL93 (talk) 00:28, 5 December 2018 (UTC)
- Thanks. The second part of the first hook was based on a paraphrasing of the quote in the article, "one of the most outstanding motoring writers of the day". Family Search contains both unreliable elements (user-generated family histories) and reliable ones (transcriptions and copies of official records). In this case it is a photographic copy of a Brazilian government immigration card (see here) so I think we are quite safe with that. Philafrenzy (talk) 05:32, 5 December 2018 (UTC)
