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A fact from Warren Richard Colvin Wynne appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 14 December 2022 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that while hemmed in at Ekowe during the Anglo-Zulu War, W. R. C. Wynne attempted to respond to heliograph signals by means of a signalling screen and a balloon?

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The result was: promoted by Theleekycauldron (talk) 23:22, 6 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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W. R. C. Wynne

... that W. R. C. Wynne (pictured) oversaw the building of Fort Tenedos and Fort Ekowe during the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879? Source: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Wynne,_Warren_Richard_Colvin
ALT1 ... that while hemmed in at Ekowe during the Anglo-Zulu War, W. R. C. Wynne (pictured) attempted to respond to heliograph signals by means of a signalling screen and a balloon?
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Zhang Jiebin

Created by Ficaia (talk). Self-nominated at 11:50, 28 November 2022 (UTC).[reply]

New enough, long enough, neutral and well-cited. The article is largely built from public domain (copyright expired) sources, and although WP:PARAPHRASE permits close paraphrasing of such sources, Earwig indicates they've been heartily reworded anyway, so no issues there. I gave the article a pretty thorough copyedit as some phrases struck me as old-timely; feel free to fix where I've overstepped. Hook fact is not tremendously interesting. Got any alternatives Ficaia? (The heliograph bit seemed interesting to me.) DigitalIceAge (talk) 17:52, 28 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@DigitalIceAge: I've added an alternate hook above. 𝕱𝖎𝖈𝖆𝖎𝖆 (talk) 18:08, 28 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Much better. Approve ALT1. DigitalIceAge (talk) 18:13, 28 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]