Template:Did you know nominations/Jozef Raskin


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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 00:05, 1 May 2016 (UTC)

Jozef Raskin

 * ... that Jozef Raskin (pictured), a Belgian Scheutist missionary who was guillotined for spying in World War II, has a statue erected in his honor in the city of Aarschot?



5x expanded by Checkingfax (talk) and Picomtn (talk). Nominated by Checkingfax (talk) at 10:26, 21 March 2016 (UTC).




 * The "resolved mark" that you are using looks just like the green approval tick which reviewers use to indicate that a nomination is ready for promotion to prep. I have changed your approval ticks to "yes" ticks and recommend that you use the "yes" tick in future to avoid confusing prep promoters. Thank you, Yoninah (talk) 14:52, 10 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Symbol confirmed.svg Just in case it's not clear from the above, the sticking-point here is the referencing. Every paragraph must have at least one citation to a reliable source, and the facts in the hook must also be adequately referenced. There's a citation of the hasel.be source against the sentence about his statue in Aarschot, but that source doesn't mention it. He's interesting and obviously notable, it shouldn't be too hard to find better sources than a blog and imapicture. This book and this one both confirm that he has a statue on the high bridge in Aarschot; one of them gives the name of the sculptor too. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 18:43, 10 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Hi, (with cc to ). Can you kindly create citations for those two books? I do not know how, and they are both on the Italian version of Google Books. Cheers!   20:47, 10 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Hi, (with cc to ). I have inserted the three references for the statue. Please give this another once over. Cheers!   23:54, 10 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Hi, (with cc to  and }). All sections are now fully referenced, plus there are the five books in the bibliography to fall back on. Please take another look-see at this DYK. Cheers!   23:15, 11 April 2016 (UTC)

Sourcing is now OK, if not overkill – some of the less reliable sources could at this point be removed. Hook question: what source says that he was guillotined by the Gestapo? Was he? Maybe this should be changed to something like "… guillotined in Germany in 1943 …" or "… guillotined for espionage (etc) …"? Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 11:34, 17 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Hi, . The sources say "the Gestapo" and I think that is a stronger hook. "guillotined for espionage" would be an adequate backup if you cannot find the Gestapo source. Cheers!  11:49, 20 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Hi, . It is now GTG. Cheers!  03:27, 21 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Hi, . Please mark the hook as referenced now. Cheers!  23:21, 23 April 2016 (UTC)

The hook has been modified and is now acceptably referenced. Thank you,, this now seems fine on all counts. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 22:45, 27 April 2016 (UTC)