Talk:Victor Verity

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Review: May 10, 2023. (Reviewed version).

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A fact from Victor Verity appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 4 July 2023 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that after Victor Verity crash-landed his plane in Norrent-Fontes and travelled back to England, he discovered that he had been reported as being missing in action?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2023/July. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Victor Verity.

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GA Review

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Reviewer: Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs) 16:49, 28 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I'll get to this shortly.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 16:49, 28 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Images properly licensed
Hyphenate short service and night fighting

Done throughout. Zawed (talk) 09:31, 8 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Spending the last two years of the war on non-combat duties seems a little odd as the RAF was not noted for its concern for its pilots, especially after D-Day. Is there anything available on why he was assigned these duties?

No, not in sources. I do wonder if he had pissed someone off towards the end of his career, his final posting was as an admin in accounts! Zawed (talk) 09:31, 8 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Either that or he'd been declared LMF and nobody wanted to publicize that.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 00:10, 10 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Nicely done.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 19:34, 3 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Sturmvogel 66, thanks for the review! I have dealt with your comments and this is ready for another look. Cheers, Zawed (talk) 09:31, 8 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Did you know nomination

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The result was: promoted by AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 11:45, 29 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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... that after Victor Verity crash-landed his plane in Norrent-Fontes and travelled back to England, he discovered that he had been reported as being missing in action? Source: Wynn, Kenneth G. (1981). A Clasp for 'The Few': New Zealanders with the Battle of Britain Clasp. Auckland: Kenneth G. Wynn. ISBN 0-86-465-0256. Pages 400-401 , Shores, Christopher; Williams, Clive (1994). Aces High: A Tribute to the Most Notable Fighter Pilots of the British and Commonwealth Forces in WWII. London: Grub Street. ISBN 1-898697-00-0. Pages 606-607 , Lambert, Max (2011). Day After Day: New Zealanders in Fighter Command. Auckland: HarperCollins Publishers. ISBN 978-1-86950-844-9. Page 59
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Kitab al-wadih bi-l-haqq

Improved to Good Article status by Zawed (talk). Nominated by Onegreatjoke (talk) at 22:15, 14 May 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Victor Verity; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.[reply]

Should there be a hyphen in crash landed (crash-landed)? Edward-Woodrow (talk) 03:19, 18 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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

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

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: - Offline/paywalled citation accepted in good faith Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall:

No copyright/plagiarism issues. I could not access any of the sources on the Internet Archive or Google Books, so I am assuming good faith. The dyk fact is interesting. In addition to changing "crash landed" to "crash-landed", I reworded the hook slightly. This nomination is ready. Tkbrett (✉) 12:40, 9 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]