Template:Did you know nominations/Richard W. Mayo


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The result was: promoted by Miyagawa (talk) 18:53, 7 February 2015 (UTC)

Richard W. Mayo

 * ... that in addition to winning a bronze medal at the 1932 Summer Olympics, Richard W. Mayo was a U. S. Army general and a city manager?
 * ALT1:... that Olympic bronze medalist Richard W. Mayo was a brigadier general during the Korean War?
 * Reviewed: Canada Job Grant

5x expanded by Hirolovesswords (talk). Self nominated at 01:16, 23 January 2015 (UTC).


 * Symbol confirmed.svg Interesting article that meets Wikipedia length requirement and is within policy requirements. It also appears to exceed the 5X expansion requirement, but this needs to be checked by someone else as I cannot get the word count tool to work properly on my computer. I manually counted 131 characters in the main hook, so this is well within the limit. QPQ done. There are no images. I found no plagiarism or close paraphrasing issues in the on-line citations, but  cannot access the citations that are not on-line. Corrected two misspellings in the article. Either of the two hooks is acceptable, though I think a stronger hook could be:
 * ALT2....that at the 1932 Summer Olympics, Richard W. Mayo became the first American to win a medal in the pentathlon? It is also supported by a citation.

Bruin2 (talk) 17:38, 7 February 2015 (UTC)