Template:Did you know nominations/Dewey L. Fleming
- 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 Cwmhiraeth (talk) 07:18, 21 March 2016 (UTC)
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Dewey L. Fleming
[edit]- ... that Dewey L. Fleming was one of nine newspaper reporters who were secretly invited to cover the first Quebec Conference between President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill?
Created by AdventurousSquirrel (talk). Self-nominated at 23:24, 12 March 2016 (UTC).
- Thanks for taking a look Euryalus - that suggestion sounds good to me. If shortening it is good, perhaps the descriptors can be removed altogether? E.g.:
- ALT1: "... that Dewey L. Fleming was one of nine newspaper reporters who were secretly invited to cover the first Quebec Conference between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill?"
- Or even ALT2: "... that Dewey L. Fleming was one of nine newspaper reporters who were secretly invited to cover the first Quebec Conference?"
- And were there any incidences of close paraphrasing that stood out in particular that I can try to address? AdventurousSquirrel (talk) 09:28, 15 March 2016 (UTC)
- Apologies for the delay in coming back. Am on a mobile device so can't easily do links, but the Career section is fairly close to the content of the Fischer reference. That said, there are only a certain number of words one can use to describe a list of dates, so it's not a matter worth holding up this nomination. On the new last, I suspect Alt2 would assume too great a level of historical knowledge, so:
Good To Go for ALT1. -- Euryalus (talk) 08:11, 16 March 2016 (UTC)
- Apologies for the delay in coming back. Am on a mobile device so can't easily do links, but the Career section is fairly close to the content of the Fischer reference. That said, there are only a certain number of words one can use to describe a list of dates, so it's not a matter worth holding up this nomination. On the new last, I suspect Alt2 would assume too great a level of historical knowledge, so:
