Template:Did you know nominations/James Scaramanga

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The result was: promoted by PFHLai (talk) 01:40, 29 April 2012 (UTC)

James Scaramanga

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~~... that WWI flying ace James Scaramanga, commemorated in All Saints' Church Crawley Down (pictured), has a connection to James Bond series author Ian Fleming?~~

Comment: Started on 2 April in user space, moved to article space 4 April, using 4 April date for nom.

Created/expanded by ACP2011 (talk). Self nom at 01:17, 6 April 2012 (UTC)

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Syzygium cormiflorum Anne (talk) 19:57, 14 April 2012 (UTC)

Everything looks good: new enough, long enough, well-referenced, no close paraphrasing seen. I'm just wondering why you chose to add the fact about Crawley Down rather than write a tighter hook that just links Scaramanga with Fleming's James Bond? Yoninah (talk) 20:18, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

Thank you. I wanted to use an image from James Bond, but I wasn't certain that any of them would be O.K. to use. I'm still learning about image licensing. I could just eliminate the phrase and the photo:

ALT1: ~~... that WWI flying ace James Scaramanga has a connection to James Bond series author Ian Fleming?~~ Anne (talk) 20:31, 27 April 2012 (UTC)

Both hooks are vague in the extreme. Can we have an ALT to really hook the readers in? I mean, I have a connection to George Washington but it's tenuous as hell. Panyd^{The muffin is not subtle} 17:14, 28 April 2012 (UTC)

Thanks, Anne. I would also like to suggest something hookier. Here's what I came up with:
ALT2: ... that Ian Fleming named his villain in The Man with the Golden Gun after the first cousin of WWI flying ace James Scaramanga? Yoninah (talk) 18:21, 28 April 2012 (UTC)

I like it. Thank you. Anne (talk) 19:06, 28 April 2012 (UTC)

ALT2 good to go. Yoninah (talk) 19:22, 28 April 2012 (UTC)

Thank you for your review. Anne (talk) 23:28, 28 April 2012 (UTC)