Talk:Servaas Theron

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Did you know... that Servaas Theron, a World War II fighter pilot, landed next to a stranded aircraft and siphoned fuel from his plane so that they could both fly away?

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Did you know nomination

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The result was: promoted by The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 21:32, 28 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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... that Servaas Theron, a WWII fighter pilot, landed next to a stranded aircraft and siphoned fuel from his plane so that they could both fly away? Aces High:Shores and Hurricane Aces: Thomas
- ALT1:... that Servaas Theron was a figher pilot in both World War II and the Korean War? Aces High:Shores

Reviewed: Lynden Archer
Comment: Suggestions for the 1st hook are welcomed

Created by Gbawden (talk). Self-nominated at 08:17, 29 April 2020 (UTC).[reply]

General eligibility:

New enough:
Long enough: - Classified as a stub

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook eligibility:

Cited: - Offline/paywalled citation accepted in good faith
Interesting: - I struck ALT1 as it is not sufficiently noteworthy

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Notability not evaluated. b uidhe 21:59, 29 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Buidhe I have removed the stub tag as although it is short it does demonstrate notability. Notability is established by virtue of his being a fighter ace - a criteria accepted and used by WP:MILHIST Gbawden (talk) 07:07, 28 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

IF it were generally accepted it would be part of WP:SOLDIER, but discussions to that effect did not find consensus to add it. Anyway, the nom is approved. b uidhe 07:18, 28 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Reference mis-spelled

Reference 2 is described thus: "Thomas, Andrew (2003). Hurrican Aces 1941 -1945. Osprey. p. 61. ISBN 978-1841766102." The "Hurrican" of course should read "Hurricane", as a glance at the Osprey publication on Google books reveals. However, I cannot edit the reference list, possibly because of a hidden category in operation, and in the absence of discussion will not edit it. But it is clearly wrong, and that should not happen in a "Did you know?" headliner. 125.236.174.78 (talk) 01:16, 2 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]