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The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:42, 16 March 2018 (UTC)

Ronald Forbes Adam

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A new recruit, Bill Jones, undertakes a mechanical ability test
A new recruit, Bill Jones, undertakes a mechanical ability test
  • ... that during World War II, General Ronald Forbes Adam instituted aptitude tests (pictured) for new recruits to the British Army? Source: Offline I'm afraid. Asking for an AGF

Improved to Good Article status by Hawkeye7 (talk). Self-nominated at 19:21, 17 February 2018 (UTC).

  • GF on source which is a book by Robert Broad. QPQ done. Article was recently (today) promoted to GA, is long enough, and NPOV. No obvious copyvio. Photograph is tagged as free from copyright as a British government photo from before 1957. Hook is interesting and length compliant. Chetsford (talk) 19:32, 17 February 2018 (UTC)