Template:Did you know nominations/Deolali transit camp


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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 18:59, 19 February 2019 (UTC)

Deolali transit camp

 * ... that the British Army's Deolali transit camp is the origin for the slang term "doolally", meaning mentally ill? "was reflected in the term ‘doolally’, a popular term for madness ... in 1861, the British Army had set up a base and sanatorium at Deolali, Maharashtra," (20th Century British History Journal) "The slang word "doolally" or "doolali" is used to describe someone who is "out of one's mind" ... is derived from the name of a small military town in the Indian state of Maharashtra called Deolali" (British Medical Journal)
 * ALT1: ... that the Deolali transit camp is the setting for the 1970s BBC comedy series It Ain't Half Hot Mum? "Another ensemble piece, it drew on both writers' wartime experience in India and set the action in Deolali: a British army camp 100 miles north-east of Bombay where everyone's gone "a bit doolally" (BBC)
 * Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Gutta Percha Company

5x expanded by Dumelow (talk). Self-nominated at 10:46, 20 January 2019 (UTC).


 * Reviewing, long enough, interesting, still a stub. Will complete soon. Whispyhistory (talk) 11:15, 20 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Symbol question.svg Good work, how do you find these? QPQ done, expanded >5x, both hooks ok, in article and sourced. camp fever redirects to typhus, but it in this case, it should be malaria- see reference 3. I would have changed it, but didn't want to end up rewriting a whole sentence. Please check over. Whispyhistory (talk) 14:15, 20 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the review Whispyhistory. I should have checked the target (I expected it to go to a page describing the term more generally). I've liked it to Malaria which has a brief mention of the term - Dumelow (talk) 14:48, 20 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Symbol confirmed.svg Thanks..good link. Whispyhistory (talk) 15:04, 20 January 2019 (UTC)