Talk:Howard Mayers
Latest comment: 1 year ago by Annihilannic in topic Bale out vs. Bail out of aircraft
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Did you know nomination edit
- 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 Theleekycauldron (talk) 23:18, 6 December 2022 (UTC)
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Howard Mayers
- ... that Howard Mayers (pictured) is credited with the destruction of at least eleven enemy aircraft during World War II? Source: In the article
- ALT1: ... that Howard Mayers (pictured) was shot down twice during World War II? Source: In the article
- ALT2: ... that Howard Mayers (pictured) was given command of No. 94 Squadron, leading it during Operation Crusader? Source: In the middle east section of the article.
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Dark forest hypothesis
Improved to Good Article status by Zawed (talk). Nominated by Onegreatjoke (talk) at 20:18, 29 November 2022 (UTC).
- Article has achieved Good Article status. No issues of copyvio or plagiarism. All sources appear reliable. All the hooks are interesting, but the primary hook is best. QPQ is done. Looks ready to go. Thriley (talk) 01:43, 30 November 2022 (UTC)
- Thriley Did you mean to add a tick? Onegreatjoke (talk) 15:12, 30 November 2022 (UTC)
All set!
- Thriley Did you mean to add a tick? Onegreatjoke (talk) 15:12, 30 November 2022 (UTC)
Bale out vs. Bail out of aircraft edit
- Multiple references to "bale out" or "baling out" in this article, however I believe "bail out" is more correct, cf. https://www.dailywritingtips.com/bail-out-vs-bale-out/ and Bailing_out --Annihilannic (talk) 04:45, 13 December 2022 (UTC)