Template:Did you know nominations/Robert Menzies (cricketer)
- The following discussion 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 BlueMoonset (talk) 04:51, 6 May 2012 (UTC)
Robert Menzies (cricketer)
[edit]- ... that Robert Menzies played cricket for New Zealand in 1939?
- Comment: A bit of antipodean humour here: Robert Menzies was the longest-serving prime minister of Australia and served during the Second World War, so having his namesake play cricket for New Zealand is
somewhat humorousthe reason I'm nominating this otherwise-boring article. Along the lines of the Gordon Brown / Kim Jong-Il thing in 2009.
- Comment: A bit of antipodean humour here: Robert Menzies was the longest-serving prime minister of Australia and served during the Second World War, so having his namesake play cricket for New Zealand is
Created/expanded by IgnorantArmies (talk). Self nom at 11:22, 10 April 2012 (UTC)
Article seems fine to me. Was entirely unfamiliar with "Cricketarchive" but it's used in FA-Class articles like Len Hutton so I'm assuming it's totally fine; my only concern is that it's the basis of the vast majority of the article, making it rather dry. A little sports journalism about his performance might help that, should any exist and/or be readily accessible. At this stage we're fine with that we have though. Good to go. GRAPPLE X 23:07, 5 May 2012 (UTC)
