Template:Did you know nominations/Toby Graham
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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 00:22, 6 September 2019 (UTC)
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Toby Graham
- ... that military historian Dominick Graham was a prisoner of war in Italy during World War II, and later returned as a member of the British Olympic skiing team? Source: "He was a combatant in the some of the most famous battles of the war including the Battles of Britain and Tobruk and spent time as a prisoner of war in Italy... He was part of the British ski team for the 1956 Winter Games at Cortina where he finished 29th of 30 finishers in the gruelling 50 km event." ([1])
- ALT1:... that ...? Source: "You are strongly encouraged to quote the source text supporting each hook" (and [link] the source, or cite it briefly without using citation templates)
5x expanded by Hawkeye7 (talk). Self-nominated at 20:42, 24 August 2019 (UTC).
5x expansion from 1075 to 5552 bytes verified. Prose good although I would prefer for "maths" to be spelled out and "an emeritus" should probably be "as emeritus". Earwig found a 33% similarity with the Telegraph obit, seemingly a high rate, but checking found these all to be proper nouns and set phrases; I don't think the level of copying is problematic. The expanded version meets DYK standards of sourcing. The hook is properly attention-catching and sourced. But per DYK's somewhat-pedantic rules the actual sentence "he was taken prisoner by the Italians" needs a copy of the same footnote; someone (Hawkeye7?) please add this before it is promoted. Additionally it would help if the sentence about his Olympic participation mentioned that it was in Italy. Beyond these small points, good to go. I'm using the AGF tickmark instead of the green one because I have good faith that the small cleanups will be done, but they are so minor that I don't think it should hold up my approval and don't want to be bothered re-reviewing to approve them. —David Eppstein (talk) 07:41, 26 August 2019 (UTC)
- Added a footnote, and changed math to mathematics, and added that the 1956 Winter Olympics were in Cortina d'Ampezzo (who knew?). Hawkeye7 (discuss) 10:11, 26 August 2019 (UTC)
