Talk:Servaas Theron

Did you know nomination

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 The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 21:32, 28 May 2020 (UTC)

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• ... that Servaas Theron, a WWII fighter pilot, landed next to a stranded aircraft and siphoned fuel from his plane so that they could both fly away? Aces High:Shores and Hurricane Aces: Thomas
  • ALT1:... that Servaas Theron was a figher pilot in both World War II and the Korean War? Aces High:Shores

• Reviewed: Lynden Archer
• Comment: Suggestions for the 1st hook are welcomed

Created by Gbawden (talk). Self-nominated at 08:17, 29 April 2020 (UTC).

• General eligibility:

• New enough:
• Long enough: - Classified as a stub

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook eligibility:

• Cited: - Offline/paywalled citation accepted in good faith
• Interesting: - I struck ALT1 as it is not sufficiently noteworthy

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Notability not evaluated. buidhe 21:59, 29 April 2020 (UTC)

Comment Buidhe I have removed the stub tag as although it is short it does demonstrate notability. Notability is established by virtue of his being a fighter ace - a criteria accepted and used by WP:MILHIST Gbawden (talk) 07:07, 28 May 2020 (UTC)

IF it were generally accepted it would be part of WP:SOLDIER, but discussions to that effect did not find consensus to add it. Anyway, the nom is approved. buidhe 07:18, 28 May 2020 (UTC)

Reference mis-spelled

Reference 2 is described thus: "Thomas, Andrew (2003). Hurrican Aces 1941 -1945. Osprey. p. 61. ISBN 978-1841766102." The "Hurrican" of course should read "Hurricane", as a glance at the Osprey publication on Google books reveals. However, I cannot edit the reference list, possibly because of a hidden category in operation, and in the absence of discussion will not edit it. But it is clearly wrong, and that should not happen in a "Did you know?" headliner. 125.236.174.78 (talk) 01:16, 2 June 2020 (UTC)