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February 21, 2010	Good article nominee	Listed
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A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on February 15, 2010. The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that to join the Australian Flying Corps in 1917, future fighter ace Roy Phillipps (pictured) falsified his age by declaring he was four years younger?
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GA Review

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Reviewer: Dana boomer (talk) 21:59, 20 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! I will be reviewing this article for GA status, and should have the full review up shortly. Dana boomer (talk) 21:59, 20 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

GA review (see here for criteria)

It is reasonably well written.
a (prose): b (MoS):
It is factually accurate and verifiable.
a (references): 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, where possible and appropriate.
a (images are tagged and non-free images have fair use rationales): b (appropriate use with suitable captions):
Overall:
Pass/Fail:

Everything looks good with the article, so I am passing it to GA status. I made one tweak to a reference, but other than that couldn't find anything I wanted to change :) I'm assuming that further information on the guy is just not available, but if it is, more info on his early life would be nice. Let me know if you have any questions! Dana boomer (talk) 00:11, 21 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Many thanks for review, Dana. Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 03:13, 21 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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family?

This article does a creditable job of handling its subject's military service, but shortchanges the rest of his life. The fact that he was married doesn't come up until the article mentions that he was survived by a wife and children, for example. The decade-plus of the interbellum is brushed aside in a couple of sentences. Surely he did more than run a grazing operation. --Piledhigheranddeeper (talk) 14:09, 13 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]