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A fact from Harvey Tuckett appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 20 November 2024 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that cavalry officer Harvey Tuckett retired from the British Army to become an actor, but was shot in a duel by his former commanding officer?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2024/November. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Harvey Tuckett.

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The result was: promoted by Crisco 1492 talk 14:27, 15 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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... that cavalry officer Harvey Tuckett retired from the British Army to become an actor, but was shot in a duel by his former commanding officer?

Source: Siddons, J. H. "Thespic Reminiscences". Demorest's Illustrated Monthly. Vol. 15, no. 1. p. 143. [1]

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Vivian Stranders

Created by AntientNestor (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 7 past nominations.

AntientNestor (talk) 14:19, 20 October 2024 (UTC).[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy compliance:

Adequate sourcing:
Neutral:
Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:
Other problems:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: The source used is quite difficult to read but appears to put together the events of Tuckett's life at this point as described. Just need to address the access dates issue (corrected): ~~There are access dates in the article that predate the publishing of the article on Oct 20, was this copied from a sandbox, draft or external document?~~ Recon rabbit 21:35, 4 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Copy and paste from my sandbox here. Now fixed, but I only found one—did I miss some? Thanks.--AntientNestor (talk) 22:01, 4 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Looks good, that was it. Recon rabbit 22:15, 4 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Reconrabbit: So can this get the "tick" for promotion?--AntientNestor (talk) 08:20, 5 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Whoops, forgot about that parameter. Recon rabbit 12:29, 5 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]