Template:Did you know nominations/Ian Heslop
- 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 AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 20:23, 26 August 2023 (UTC)
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Ian Heslop
- ... that the "Purple Emperor" collected butterflies with a "setacious Hebrew character"? Source: Robinson, Phillip T.; Flacke, Gabriella L.; Hentschel, Knut M. (2017). The Pygmy Hippo Story: West Africa's Enigma of the Rainforest. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-061185-9 (p59-60); Oates, Matthew (2005). "Extreme Butterfly Collecting: A Biography of I. R. P. Heslop". British Wildlife. 34 (4), p165
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Poniatowski gem
- Comment: Slightly teasing: names refer to the butterfly-related nicknames that Heslop and his companion, Charles de Worms, acquired among other collectors.
Improved to Good Article status by UndercoverClassicist (talk). Self-nominated at 10:18, 23 July 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Ian Heslop; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.
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@UndercoverClassicist: Good article, but I don't really like the hook and would prefer something else. Onegreatjoke (talk) 20:04, 24 July 2023 (UTC)
- Some possible alts:
- ALT1: ... that Ian Heslop discovered the Nigerian subspecies of the pygmy hippopotamus 1,000 miles from the nearest known population of the species? (source: Robinson, Flacke & Hentschel 2017, pp. 60–61)
- ALT2: ... that the butterfly collector Ian Heslop was once required to supervise an execution? (source: Robinson, Flacke & Hentschel 2017, p. 64.)
- ALT3: ... that Ian Heslop has been accused of "turning the gentle pursuit of butterflies into an extreme country sport"? (source: Oates 2005, p. 165).
- UndercoverClassicist (talk) 11:52, 25 July 2023 (UTC)
New hooks look good. Onegreatjoke (talk) 18:55, 20 August 2023 (UTC)
- Some possible alts:
