Template:Did you know nominations/Stanley Booth-Clibborn


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The result was: promoted by  Jolly  Ω   Janner  07:28, 13 February 2016 (UTC)

Stanley Booth-Clibborn

 * ... that Stanley Booth-Clibborn, a former Bishop of Manchester, was shot during a robbery in Uganda?


 * ALT1:... that Stanley Booth-Clibborn, an Anglican bishop, was a great-grandson of the founder of The Salvation Army?
 * ALT2:... that Stanley Booth-Clibborn, later Bishop of Manchester, was elected Secretary of the Oxford Union on a socialist ticket?
 * ALT3:... that when Stanley Booth-Clibborn was asked to become Vicar of the Church of St Mary the Great, Cambridge, the letter begging him to do so said they were "scraping the bottom of the barrel"?
 * ALT4:... that when Stanley Booth-Clibborn was asked to become Vicar of the Church of St Mary the Great, Cambridge, he received a letter begging him to accept as the bishop was "scraping the bottom of the barrel"?
 * Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Johannes Bah Kuhnke
 * Comment: ALT 3 and 4 are basically the same, just worded differently because I couldn't make up my mind which sounded better.

5x expanded by Gaia Octavia Agrippa (talk). Self-nominated at 23:25, 23 January 2016 (UTC).


 * Symbol voting keep.svg This article is a five-fold expansion and is new enough and long enough. All the proposed hooks have inline citations and any could be used. The article is neutral and I detected no policy issues. There is a "citation needed" tag in the article. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:38, 8 February 2016 (UTC)