Template:Did you know nominations/John Hore

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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 23:31, 20 February 2017 (UTC)

John Hore

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... that canal engineer John Hore, baptised this day in 1680, set a new standard for inland waterways with the Kennet Navigation which was described as an important forerunner of the canals of the Industrial Revolution? Source: refs of last line of John Hore#Legacy
- ALT2... that John Hore, engineer of the Kennet and Avon Navigations, was described by Sir Alec Skempton as "in the first rank among the navigation engineers"? Source: refs of last line of John Hore#Legacy
- ALT3:... that baptised this day in 1680, canal engineer John Hore was described by Sir Alec Skempton as "in the first rank among the navigation engineers" for his work on the Kennet and Avon Navigations? Source: refs of last line of John Hore#Legacy

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Lucy Dudko
Comment: Obviously the "baptised this day" bit only works if we can hold this until 13 March... easily pulled out if not! MIDI (talk) 13:10, 16 January 2017 (UTC)

5x expanded by MIDI (talk). Self-nominated at 12:17, 16 January 2017 (UTC).

This article is a five-fold expansion. The hook facts all have inline references~~, and any of the hooks could be used~~. On further thoughts, it is probably best not to use the baptism date in the hook because footnote 2 gives different dates for his birth, and he could not have been baptised before he was born. The nomination could still run on 13th March however. The article is neutral, Earwig was clear and I detected no copyright issues. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 14:31, 14 February 2017 (UTC)