Template:Did you know nominations/Peter J. K. Petersen

Peter J. K. Petersen
Created by Geschichte (talk). Nominated by Oceanh (talk) at 21:26, 9 April 2012 (UTC)
 * ... that consul general Peter J. K. Petersen headed the organizing committee for a famous speed skating race at Frognerkilen in 1885?


 * Symbol question.svg The article satisfies DYK requirements for newness, article length, and the hook interest, length and formatting requirements. As far as I can tell, there is no plagiarism and satisfies NPOV and citation requirements. AGF on book sources. I have made a few small copy edits, but I have some queries:
 * The NBL source gives his name as Johan Peter Kay Petersen, not Peter Johan Kay Petersen.
 * I'm wondering why his father's company is called "Peter Petersen & Co", when his father is called Sigwardt Blumenthal Petersen?
 * --NSH001 (talk) 15:57, 27 April 2012 (UTC)
 * 1) I don't think it does? 2) Added some more detail. Geschichte (talk) 07:47, 28 April 2012 (UTC)4
 * 1) Ah, never rely on Google Translate for anything! I should have checked which version I was using (my practise is to have all the refs in tabs within a separate window (including also translated versions of foreign-language refs, in addition to the original) so that I can easily toggle between them and the wiki article). Never occurred to me that g-trans would mangle something as basic as a name! Unfortunately my knowledge of Norwegian is limited to a minimal amount of Swedish picked up when I was in Stockholm for the marathon, so I have to rely (with great suspicion!) on g-trans, plus similarities with German.
 * 2) Looks OK as far as I can tell. I will make a few more copy edits to tidy up English style and grammar.
 * Symbol confirmed.svg Good to go now. --NSH001 (talk) 18:47, 28 April 2012 (UTC)