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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.

The result was: rejected by BlueMoonset (talk03:00, 8 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Article has been tagged as copyvio and cannot proceed at DYK.

  • ... that, in 1945, a Canadian woman named Joan Bamford Fletcher took command of a force of surrendered Japanese soldiers and used them to escort 2,000 Dutch civilian internees to safety? Source: Millar, Ruth (2004). Saskatchewan Heroes & Rogues. Coteau Books. p. 133-145. ISBN 978-1550502893.

Created by Jiffles1 (talk). Self-nominated at 17:53, 7 July 2021 (UTC).[reply]

  • New enough, long enough, and well sourced. Interesting hook, adequately sourced. Accepting offline source AGF. This appears to be nominator's first DYK, perhaps surprisingly as they are a long-term editor, so no QPQ is needed. However, the article contains significant amounts of text copied from a copyrighted document, [1]. Examples: "wanted to serve, but military branches for Canadian women did not yet exist", "In October, she was assigned to [go to] the Dutch East Indies [now] Indonesia to evacuate the civilian internment camp at Bangkinang", "all of whom had to be moved through mountainous jungle to the coastal city of Padang for safety and medical care. [However], there were no Allied personnel available in the region at the time." This is unacceptable and I have tagged the article as a copyvio. It cannot be listed in DYK in this form. —David Eppstein (talk) 23:22, 7 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]