User:Donner60/DYK

I had been keeping various records of my edits in certain areas on my user page. I had no problem in saving edits to my user page despite its increasing size until sometime in February 2020. So I reluctantly created a sub-page User:Donner60/AIV Reports, which removed more than one-third of the content of the user page. Within a week, I could not save updates to the user page or the AIV reports page, which I will try to deal with later. I have now created User:Donner60/Deletions

I decided to create additional user sub-pages in an effort to try to save the content of all the pages and especially to be able to save the content of the user page. Here I am putting a log of DYK article reviewed and the template awards for my DYK pages. I am keeping a list of the DYK text from the main page on my user page.

I am not sure why I have been unable to save the content of these pages. I have had some brief problems in saving changes to a few other pages recently as well. Perhaps Wikipedia is being slowed down by extra usage as people are home due to the coronavirus shut downs and self or mandated quarantines. The same may be true for traffic through my ISP.

My DYK awards
Orlady (talk) 22:47, 4 December 2011 (UTC) 16:03, 5 December 2011 (UTC)

Casliber (talk · contribs) 16:02, 28 December 2011 (UTC)


 * Congratulations! Bullmoosebell (talk) 05:19, 29 December 2011 (UTC)

Yngvadottir (talk) 08:03, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

Yngvadottir (talk) 16:03, 12 July 2012 (UTC)

Yngvadottir (talk) 00:04, 20 July 2012 (UTC)

Graeme Bartlett (talk) 08:03, 23 July 2012 (UTC)

RE:Did you know nominations/James Cameron (Union colonel)‎
I also forgot to notify you about my reply here, but that was only because I gave it a green light for the first time. Truly the best referenced DYK I've seen so far.  Lajbi  Holla @ me  •  CP  09:28, 1 August 2012 (UTC)

Yngvadottir (talk) 08:03, 4 August 2012 (UTC)

Graeme Bartlett (talk) 16:03, 4 August 2012 (UTC)

Congratulation on a fabulous article. Miss Ivonne (talk) 18:36, 4 August 2012 (UTC)

Orlady (talk) 16:04, 11 August 2012 (UTC)

Casliber (talk · contribs) 00:02, 15 August 2012 (UTC)

Graeme Bartlett (talk) 08:03, 18 August 2012 (UTC)

PanydThe muffin is not subtle 16:03, 12 September 2012 (UTC)

The DYK project (nominate) 16:04, 22 September 2012 (UTC)

Casliber (talk · contribs) 00:05, 1 October 2012 (UTC)

Casliber (talk · contribs) 00:08, 17 October 2012 (UTC)

( X! ·  talk )  · @954  · 12:02, 30 December 2012 (UTC)

Casliber (talk · contribs) 08:03, 17 May 2013 (UTC)

Did not copy in correctly on talk page so template is from article page. The DYK project (nominate) 20:34, 2 August 2013 (UTC)

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 09:39, 10 May 2014 (UTC)

Gatoclass (talk) 00:01, 11 May 2018 (UTC)

— Maile (talk) 01:11, 20 May 2018 (UTC)

—Kusma (talk) 12:15, 15 September 2023 (UTC)

Main page text of my DYK articles
The following list is the DYK text of my DYK articles from the main page (also initially kept on my user page):

May 20, 2018 DYK ... that Union Army general Justus McKinstry, who recommended the appointment of Ulysses S. Grant to his first important command, was soon thereafter cashiered? 4145 page views on May 21-22, 2018.

May 11, 2018 DYK ... that Henry Boynton Clitz, Commandant of Cadets at West Point from 1862 to 1864, disappeared in 1888? 3652 Views in 12 hour posting 0:00-12:00 UTC on May 11, 2018.

May 10, 2014 DYK ...that American spy Anna Strong signaled members of the Culper Ring during the American Revolutionary War with her petticoat? 2,937 page views on May 10, 2014.

August 1, 2013 DYK... that in June 1863, at the Battle of Fairfax Court House (courthouse pictured), 87 men of the Union Army charged a division of at least 2,000 Confederate soldiers? 7,291 page views on August 1, 2013. Lead hook.

May 17, 2013 DYK ...that Richard Buck opened the first session of the Virginia General Assembly at Jamestown, Virginia on July 30, 1619 with a prayer? 564 page views on May 17.

December 30, 2012 DYK ... that Charles W. Adams, a Confederate colonel during the American Civil War, was a grandfather of Helen Keller? 1498 page views December 30; 205 page views December 31.

October 17, 2012 DYK ... that Confederate Major General J.E.B. Stuart's Chambersburg Raid was his second ride around McClellan? 1704 page views October 17.

October 1, 2012 DYK ... that Jeptha Vining Harris, a Mississippi militia general during the American Civil War, was the son of Jeptha Vining Harris, a Georgia militia general during the War of 1812? 989 page views October 1.

September 22, 2012 DYK ... ... that Confederate Colonel William Henry Harman was killed at the Battle of Waynesboro, Virginia, the town where he was born? 973 page views September 22.

September 12, 2012 DYK ... ... that Colonel Joseph H. Tucker, twice commander of the Camp Douglas (Chicago) prison camp during the American Civil War, was never mustered into the Union Army? 1503 page views September 12, 186 page views September 13.

August 18, 2012 DYK ... that the 48th Georgia Infantry Regiment of Confederate Lt. Colonel Reuben Walker Carswell was in a brigade commanded by Carswell's mentor as a lawyer, Brigadier General Ambrose R. Wright? 569 page views.

August 15, 2012 DYK ... that Virginia militia (Confederate) brigadier general Gilbert S. Meem moved to Seattle, Washington, in 1892 and was appointed postmaster by U.S. President Grover Cleveland? 1,033 page views on August 15, 2012. Overlap to August 16: 12.

August 11, 2012 DYK ... that Confederate Colonel Robert Johnson Henderson division commander persuaded Henderson to sign his parole at the end of the American Civil War as a brigadier general? 1,489 page views, August 11, 2012.

August 5, 2012 DYK... that a brigadier general commission for Confederate Colonel Francis Marion Walker arrived at his headquarters the day after he was killed at the Battle of Atlanta in the American Civil War? 1,251 page views, August 5, 2012.

August 4, 2012 DYK... that Union Colonel James Cameron, killed at the American Civil War First Battle of Bull Run, was a brother of U.S. Secretary of War Simon Cameron? 1,088 page views, August 4, 2012.

July 23, 2012 DYK ... that on January 15, 1861, Florida militia colonel William Henry Chase demanded the surrender of Fort Pickens at Pensacola, Florida, which he had designed and constructed as a U.S. Army captain? 2,142 page views, July 23, 2012.

July 20, 2012 DYK ... that Confederate General John Bell Hood appointed Colonel Moses Wright Hannon an acting brigadier general after Hannon's men seized more than 1,000 cattle from the Union Army? 1,477 page views, July 20, 2012.

July 12, 2012 DYK ... that Confederate Army Colonel Levin Major Lewis was hit by a spent musket ball that stuck in his forehead at the Battle of Lone Jack in Missouri during the American Civil War? 6,369 page views, July 12, 2012. 7,191 page views July 12 and 13, 2012.

July 10, 2012 DYK ... that Confederate Army Colonel Wilburn Hill King acted as a general officer for more than a year but was never legally promoted? 3,190 pages views, July 10 and 11, 2012.

December 28, 2011 DYK ... that Alabama's first superintendent of public education, Confederate brigadier general and college professor William F. Perry, had little or no formal education? 2,430 page views, December 28 and 29, 2011. 2,610 page views between December 17 and December 29, 2011.

December 5, 2011 DYK ... that Confederate brigadier general Alfred E. Jackson was pardoned by President Andrew Johnson because of his kindness toward Johnson's family during the Civil War?" 7,600 page views, December 5 and 6, 2011. 8,401 page views between November 18, 2011 and December 29, 2011.

DYK nominations reviewed

 * June 27, 2023 Template:Did you know nominations/French destroyer Fronde
 * June 12, 2023 Template:Did you know nominations/23rd Virginia Infantry Battalion
 * May 5, 2018   Template:Did you know nominations/Ayşe Sinirlioğlu
 * April 25, 2018 Template:Did you know nominations/Ocean City Life-Saving Station (New Jersey)
 * May 10, 2014 Template:Did you know nominations/DNA base flipping
 * May 10, 2014 Template:Did you know nominations/William H. Barnes (jurist) QPQ
 * July 13, 2013 Template:Did you know nominations/Ostindustrie
 * July 13, 2013 Template:Did you know nominations/Technosignature QPQ
 * May 5, 2013  Template:Did you know nominations/Merlot blanc QPQ
 * September 27, 2012 Template:Did you know nominations/Terry Francois
 * September 27, 2012 Template:Did you know nominations/Günther Kaunzinger
 * September 27, 2012 Template:Did you know nominations/Christmas tree production in Denmark QPQ
 * September 27, 2012 Template:Did you know nominations/12th Arizona Territorial Legislature
 * August 22, 2012 Template:Did you know nominations/Mark Colbourne QPQ
 * August 13, 2012 Template:Did you know nominations/Mary Roach QPQ
 * August 3, 2012 Template:Did you know nominations/Joann Formosa QPQ
 * July 29, 2012 Template:Did you know nominations/National Convention of New Sudan QPQ
 * July 29, 2012 Template:Did you know nominations/List of number-one R&B singles of 2011 (U.S.) QPQ
 * July 27, 2012 Joint: Template:Did you know nominations/Collecchio, Battle of Collecchio QPQ
 * July 26, 2012 Template:Did you know nominations/She Has a Name QPQ
 * July 26, 2012 Template:Did you know nominations/Pheasant Coucal QPQ
 * July 23, 2012 Template:Did you know nominations/Guinness Foreign Extra Stout Rejected for DYK by admin in queue
 * July 23, 2012 Template:Did you know nominations/Catequilla QPQ
 * July 16, 2012 Triple DYK: Template:Did you know nominations/Laufen Hut, Fritzerkogel, Alpine route QPQ
 * July 16, 2012 Template:Did you know nominations/Roundy Coughlin QPQ
 * July 6, 2012  Template:Did you know nominations/Upper Wolfsnare QPQ
 * July 5, 2012  Joint: Template:Did you know nominations/St Ceinwen's Church, Cerrigceinwen
 * July 4, 2012  Joint: Template:Did you know nominations/Peter Finn, Hugh Finn QPQ
 * July 4, 2012  Template:Did you know nominations/Samuel Farr (architect) QPQ
 * December 21, 2011 Template:Did you know nominations/Elymus lanceolatus [thickspike wheatgrass] QPQ