Template:Did you know nominations/Robertson Smyth


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The result was: promoted by Allen3 talk 10:28, 2 April 2016 (UTC)

Robertson Smyth

 * ... that the Irish rugby player and physician Major Robertson Smyth was killed by the effects of gas exposure in World War I?


 * ALT1:... that Robertson Smyth played rugby for and the British Isles the same year he captained Trinity College, Dublin?
 * Reviewed: Flag of South Africa (1928–1994)
 * Comment: For 5 April, please, 100 years after death in WWI.

5x expanded by FunkyCanute (talk). Self-nominated at 10:48, 15 March 2016 (UTC).


 * - This appears to be too old, it was created more than 7 days before March 12 according to the history. Was it perhaps moved from user space and I am just not seeing it?  MPJ  -US 01:25, 19 March 2016 (UTC)
 * You're right, it's much older than that, but it is 5x expanded. FunkyCanute (talk) 09:38, 19 March 2016 (UTC)
 * - and that boys and girls is why reading is fundamental, sorry I did not see that. Checking on the prose size it was 177 bytes of "readable prose" before the expansion and much more than 5 times after that. Let me check the remaining criteria real quick.  MPJ  -US 14:21, 19 March 2016 (UTC)
 * No copyright violations, long enough, nominated appropriately. Artice is well written. ALT1 is sourced, but the main DYK is not directly quoted - yes it's sourced that he was invalided by the gas and that he died, but the text does not clearly state that he died from the effects of the gas. If the book source specifies that he died from the side effects of the gas please do add that to the article and I can pass it for the main DYK suggestion otherwise we can go with ALt 1.  MPJ  -US 14:28, 19 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Many thanks. I've updated the article to mention the cause of death. The exact line in the source is: "...died in London on April 5, 1916, from the effects of exposure on active service in France..." FunkyCanute (talk) 14:36, 19 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Symbol confirmed.svg good to go now.  MPJ  -US 15:08, 19 March 2016 (UTC)