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Charles R. Apted has been listed as one of the Social sciences and society good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.
Review: June 8, 2015.

A fact from Charles R. Apted appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 18 July 2015 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the intruder who shot J. P. Morgan, Jr. and bombed the US Senate in 1915 was identified by "Harvard Cop No. 1" Charles Apted as a deranged, wife-poisoning, ex-Harvard German instructor?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2015/July. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Charles R. Apted.

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One snippet reads, intriguingly: The then superintendent of the Harvard yard police was Charles Apted. On one occasion he was called by a lady living in Ridgeley Hall, a private apartment adjoining Claverly Hall, a Harvard dormitory. She complained to Mr. Apted that the...
pranksters secret
"Yale Gets Hot Under Collar As Mascot Stays At Harvard". The Baltimore Sun. 20 March 1934.

EEng (talk) 02:30, 24 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

[1] NYT search, has much in copyright

GA Review

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Reviewer: Hertz1888 (talk · contribs) 22:38, 6 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

GA review (see here for what the criteria are, and here for what they are not)

It is reasonably well written.
a (prose, no copyvios, spelling and grammar): b (MoS for lead, layout, word choice, fiction, and lists):
Well-constructed article, meets or exceeds all required criteria. Potentially of broad interest and appeal, entertaining as well as informative.
It is factually accurate and verifiable.
a (reference section): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR):
It is broad in its coverage.
a (major aspects): b (focused):
It follows the neutral point of view policy.
Fair representation without bias:
It is stable.
No edit wars, etc.:
It is illustrated by images and other media, where possible and appropriate.
a (images are tagged and non-free content have fair use rationales): b (appropriate use with suitable captions):
Overall:
Pass/Fail:

Nice article

Great job EEng. Getting great readership too.--Tomwsulcer (talk) 09:54, 13 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah [2] but from where? (Thanks, though. As you know I enjoy writing articles with all these droll quotes.) EEng (talk) 03:42, 17 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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