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A fact from Bernard Mellor appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 16 June 2024 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
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.
Overall: A really interesting, and well-written article, with a good hook. Only one minor issue - the hook is cited, but not at the end of the sentence where the fact appears, which is required for DYK. Once that's fixed, we're good to go. Mystery Merrivale (talk) 08:55, 18 May 2024 (UTC)}[reply]
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"Blackpool" by itself isn't obvious, at least to me, I would suggest adding , England or similar
Corrected. -G
served (削除) variously (削除ここまで) in
Fixed. -G
, when he was awarded - kind of gives the impression that it was because of the award that he stopped serving as registrar (I might suggest e.g. and was awarded
first sentence has a lot of commas in a row, for readability I would maybe end it after "England" and merge "the son of a local brewer" with the next sentence about his childhood/father
Good idea. Fixed. - G
as a youth - reads unnaturally to me but might be OK in other Englishes
I've seen this sorta phrasing before; you're right it may be regional. - G
alongside his political correspondent Edward Heath - meaning wasn't clear to me at first, maybe where the political correspondent was...?
Good idea. - G
what kind of publication was Ration Cooking for Small Detachments?
A military cookbook. Spelled this out. - G
Not sure if it's just me, but it's not clear to me what a "deception unit" is. Any more information in sources?
Not really, but I realize "deception unit" might be a bit informal phrasing. - G
Spotchecked this version. Decided to hit every source at least once:
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4c: would prefer this moved to the claim it backs up, He was briefly appointed... - also applies to the first paragraph of the article body
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8: Less of a source problem but I noticed it now: Mellor continued to publish works related to English poetry and literature - move this mention of the Hubert book up in the paragraph, currently we go from 1982, 1992, to 1963 and second
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