Template:Did you know nominations/George Ronald Richards


 * 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 Gatoclass (talk) 04:21, 2 April 2017 (UTC)

George Ronald Richards

 * ... that Ron Richards led "Operation Cabin 12," the plan for the defection of Soviet spy Vladimir Petrov to Australia on April 3, 1954? Source: "The plan for Petrov's defection was code named 'Operation Cabin 12'. ASIO Deputy Director Ron Richards was in charge of the operation."
 * ALT1:... that in one of Ron Richards's plans for the defection of spy Vladimir Petrov to Australia, Petrov was going to buy a chicken farm outside Sydney? Source: "Petrov wished to become a chicken farmer after defection and ... Bialoguski took him to such a farm outside Sydney, which ASIO was prepared to buy for him." >
 * ALT2:... that Paul Dibb remembered Ron Richards OBE as the only man that the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation's chief of counter-espionage called "sir"? Source: "... the late Don Marshall, ASIO's charismatic counterespionage chief...", "Marshall took Dibb to meet ASIO's legendary Deptuy Ron Richards, who was a central figure in the Petrov affair and was the only man Dibb ever heard Marshall address as 'Sir'."
 * Reviewed: This is my second nomination and would by the third article I created or expanded to feature, so I haven't yet started QPQ.

Created by Mortee (talk) and Janweh64 (talk). Nominated by Mortee (talk) at 23:57, 22 March 2017 (UTC).
 * Comment: 3 April requested for DYK. Petrov defected on 3 April 1954. &mdash;አቤል ዳዊት?(Janweh64) (talk)


 * Nominated timely, long enough. Earwig finds only trivial phrases. Sources solid and well-formatted, every paragraph ends in a cite (reviewer's note: dumb as that requirement is), nothing that suggests NPOV. ALTs 0, 1, 2 all cited, though in ALT2 I would suggest changing called to addressed.


 * Images have appropriate license tags (but only for appearance in the article -- fair-use not allowed on main page) but I have a suggestion. The infobox image is a crop of the second image, and I don't really see the point of that. I would suggest moving the second (uncropped) image to the infobox, with a caption to entice the reader: daring secret agent posing with married Soviet defectors.


 * Symbol confirmed.svg for ALTs 0, 1, 2 (whether modified as suggested or not). Personally a prefer ALT1 because of the chickens. (Fun fact: Himmler was briefly a chicken farmer, as a I recall.)  E Eng  19:20, 1 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks, any POV issue in requesting April 3rd date for DYK? Let's spell it out for them. &mdash;አቤል ዳዊት?(Janweh64) (talk) 19:51, 1 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Symbol confirmed.svg (reticking for the bot) for ALTs 0, 1, 2. Requested for April 3. I'll leave a note at WT:DYK.  E  Eng  22:43, 1 April 2017 (UTC)