Template:Did you know nominations/Lionel Matthews

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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 05:55, 2 August 2019 (UTC)

Lionel Matthews

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Lionel Matthews

• ... that despite being tortured and starved by the Japanese, Lionel Matthews (pictured) refused to give up his intelligence network in the Sandakan POW camp? Source: [1] pp. 34–36
  • ALT1:... that Lionel Matthews (pictured) was awarded the George Cross for his courage displayed while a prisoner of war? Source: [2] pp. 34–36, The London Gazette

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Weebill

Improved to Good Article status by Peacemaker67 (talk). Self-nominated at 03:50, 17 June 2019 (UTC).

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: Interesting:

Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
Freely licensed: Used in article: Clear at 100px:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: 85% copvio detection by Earwig is a false positive. The verbatim overlap is from the long citation, which is directed quoted. Hook 1 is good to go. Ergo Sum 01:29, 22 June 2019 (UTC)