Template:Did you know nominations/Bert Bushnell
- The following discussion 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 Orlady (talk) 03:38, 9 August 2012 (UTC)
Bert Bushnell[edit]
- ... that rowing gold medallist from the 1948 Summer Olympics, Bert Bushnell was involved in the evacuation of Dunkirk during the Second World War?
- Reviewed: Chelsea Hayes
- Comment: Can be kept for the Olympic period if needed, but not neccessary as I think the hook stands on its own... even if it is a little misleading in perhaps suggesting that he evacuated from Dunkirk via rowboat. I can't find exactly what it was that he did, only sources saying that he was "involved". I would imagine however that he was on a motor torpedo boat from the Thornycroft yard in Southampton as he was a marine engineer for them during the war.
Created/expanded by Miyagawa (talk) and Smjwalsh {talk). Self nom at 20:08, 23 July 2012 (UTC)
This is an awesome article, you better be nominating this for GA status soon. The only objection is the nearly bear links in the references, 29 and 30. Otherwise, the other references that need formatting adjustments will do for DYK's purposes. References, hook, policy, prose all check out. -- Zanimum (talk) 20:31, 30 July 2012 (UTC)
- I've now tidied the references. BTW, when the article was originally nominated it didn't qualify as a 5X expansion, although it does now. -- Daemonic Kangaroo (talk) 06:53, 31 July 2012 (UTC)
- What happened was that someone else came along and massively expanded it further after my nomination, and I think it's only fair that they get added to the credit list (which I'll do with this edit) considering the number of edits they did to the article. The article was 5x at the time of expansion, having gone from 904 characters to 5005. However it is now at 10404. Miyagawa (talk) 11:42, 31 July 2012 (UTC)
- I've now tidied the references. BTW, when the article was originally nominated it didn't qualify as a 5X expansion, although it does now. -- Daemonic Kangaroo (talk) 06:53, 31 July 2012 (UTC)
