Template:Did you know nominations/Alfred George Pither


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The result was: promoted by Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 12:23, 6 November 2018 (UTC)

Alfred George Pither

 * ... that Wing Commander Alfred George Pither established a network of radar stations (example pictured) in Northern Australia? Source: "He established a chain of long-range radar stations throughout Australia and the Pacific."
 * Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/German torpedo boat Albatros
 * Comment: Pic is there if you want it

Created by Hawkeye7 (talk). Self-nominated at 23:07, 6 October 2018 (UTC).


 * Symbol confirmed.svg Hi Hawkeye, review follows: article moved to mainspace 6 October; article is of a good length; article is well written and cited inline throughout to reliable sources; article appears to be free of any copyright violations or overly close paraphrasing (there are some minor similarities to the magazine article but most of these look to be names of units or commonly used phrases); hook is interesting and cited in article - the magazine article backs this up; image is freely licensed and declared as such by the Australian government on the source page; I note that the subject of the image (mark 1a radar) is not mentioned in the article, this could probably do with rectification so the reader knows why the image is relevant ; image works well at small scale; QPQ has been done. Looks good to go, with the minor caveat about the image if it is to be used - Dumelow (talk) 09:13, 1 November 2018 (UTC)
 * The article does mention the LW/AW radar and the chain of radar stations, of which this was one. The first version was the Mark I; the IA was an improved model. Anyone seen ? Hawkeye7   (discuss)  10:18, 1 November 2018 (UTC)
 * I've never actually seen a picture of one of these. Looking at the image it's clearly a modification of the GL Mk. II with a larger antenna. They are mentioned in Army Radar but he fails to note their Austrailian origins. Maury Markowitz (talk) 10:48, 1 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks Hawkeye - - don't how how I missed that! I must have been too focused on the mark 1 part.  I have struck my mistaken comments, thanks - Dumelow (talk) 10:38, 1 November 2018 (UTC)