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A fact from Eric Slover appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 15 March 2026 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
As of now, it says he enlisted in 2005. However, his service stripes are indicative of 30 years, making it around 1995/1996.
Birth year possibly around 1977, if he enlisted at 18
As I stated, Warrant Officers (per AR 670-1 21–28 Enlisted personnel are authorized to wear service stripes as members of the RA, ARNG, and USAR ... for each 3 years of honorable active Federal service) do not wear service stripes. What is on his arm are Overseas Service Bars. It is also unclear why the military would lie to AP about his enlistment date. ~Darth StabroTalk • Contribs14:51, 6 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]
~2025-39593-96 and ~2026-13198-51 (possibly the same person, based on their edit summaries) have repeatedly removed the statement that His wife, Amy, blessed his dog tags with holy water before the mission as "propaganda". This has been reported on in several reliable, albeit religious, sources: [1][2]. I find its inclusion to give important context about the Slover's possible religiosity, especially important as there isn't much information about him out there at all. I find the repeated accusation of propaganda ridiculous and unfounded.
If I am not seeing this with clear eyes, let's establish consensus about its inclusion. But we're currently at D in WP:BRD, and it should not be removed without clear consensus for as much. ~Darth StabroTalk • Contribs12:35, 5 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]
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. You can locate your hook here. No further edits should be made to this page.
Comment: 8th day since being moved from draftspace; hoping for some grace as I was on vacation and also hoping we'd get a few more articles with more information about him before nomming.
Moved to mainspace by Darth Stabro (talk) and Pbritti (talk).
Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 61 past nominations.
Article created 25 February, one day late so no issue. No issues of copyvio or plagiarism. All sources appear reliable. Hooks are interesting and sourced. Image looks good. QPQs are done. Looks ready to go. Thriley (talk) 05:56, 6 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]
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