Template:Did you know nominations/Bill Godwin

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The result was: promoted by Theleekycauldron (talk) 20:30, 21 October 2021 (UTC)

Bill Godwin

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• ... that when the Rhodesian Guard Force was disbanded in 1980, Brigadier Bill Godwin advised his men to quietly unfurl their tents and fade away? "At the last parade of the force, he told his troops that it was time to quietly unfurl their tents and fade away" from: Chakawa, Joshua (November 2015), Abel Muzorewa’s Security Force Auxiliaries and After the War of Liberation in Hurungwe District, Zimbabwe (PDF) (PhD thesis), Midlands State University, p. 215

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Ivory Winston
• Comment: Source doesn't present it as a direct quote so I haven't used quotation marks here.

Moved to mainspace by Dumelow (talk). Self-nominated at 12:06, 27 September 2021 (UTC).

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:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Source for the hook says he was "very impolite to his men"; this might bear mentioning in the article. jp×g 07:16, 28 September 2021 (UTC)

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