Template:Did you know nominations/Charles R. Chickering (artist)

Charles R. Chickering (artist)

 * ... that Charles R. Chickering was best known as the freelance artist who designed some seventy-seven postage stamps for the U.S. Post Office while working at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in Washington DC?

Created by Gwillhickers (talk). Self nominated at 23:11, 6 September 2013 (UTC).


 * Symbol confirmed.svg Size ok, no copyvios, timeframe okay. Inline citation for hook okay, but the wording is slightly different: source states sole-design credit for 66, co-design credit for 11. If this doesn't bother anyone else, then it's good to go.-Godot13 (talk) 05:47, 10 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Is there a QPQ?-Godot13 (talk) 05:48, 10 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Yes, the source says '66 + 11', not 'seventy-seven'. Re: the 11 co-designed stamps: Sometimes minor modifications would be made in the artist's stamp designs (lettering, etc) which is covered in the body of the text, cited. Hook is a general statement in the lede. If anyone feels this is an issue I can always change "seventy-seven" to 'dozens'. Re: QPQ This is only my 4th DYK nom' but I  reviewed  Upton Heath and Capture of the Dutch fleet at Den Helder anyways, just below this nomination under the same date. -- Gwillhickers 12:58, 10 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Symbol confirmed.svg This is covered by the WP:OR page, which says that you are allowed to add two numbers together. The issue then is whether the statement is still accurate, I would say that "design" is general enough to include "co-designed" so the hook would be good to go. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 20:45, 10 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Amended above, seems good to go.-Godot13 (talk) 21:53, 10 September 2013 (UTC)


 * Symbol possible vote.svg I am concerns that some of the phrasing in this article is too close to that of its sources. Compare for example "a basement in a chateau in Dijon he made medical illustrations of body-part wounds from cadavers brought in from the front for autopsy" with "the basement of a chateau in Dijon creating drawings of body-part wounds from cadavers brought in from the front for autopsy". Nikkimaria (talk) 04:45, 12 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Have just reworded the phrase in question along with some general rewording about the article. If you see any other items I may have missed please let me know. -- Gwillhickers 10:22, 12 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Another example is "graduated from this school in 1913 and soon sold his first illustrations to Collier's Magazine where his immediate vocational practice as a freelance book and magazine illustrator was assured" vs "graduated from that school in 1913, sold his first illustrations to Collier's Magazine the same year, and his immediate vocational fate as a freelance book and magazine illustrator was sealed". Nikkimaria (talk) 21:13, 13 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Symbol redirect vote 4.svg Okay, even though the two passages were different in a couple of ways I further reworded the passage in question. ("graduated from this (or that) school" is a common phrase.) -- Gwillhickers 23:53, 13 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Symbol confirmed.svg Good enough. Nikkimaria (talk) 04:52, 29 September 2013 (UTC)