Talk:Called Up Sent Down: The Bevin Boys' War

This article was nominated for deletion on 17 December 2022. The result of the discussion was keep.

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Did you know... that Called Up Sent Down: The Bevin Boys' War describes the experiences of young men conscripted to work as coal miners in Britain during World War II?

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Notability[edit]

From what I see, this book does not appear to meet notability standards as per Wikipedia:Notability_(books). Does anyone see any points or references to demonstrate its notability? KeepItGoingForward (talk) 22:44, 10 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Did you know nomination[edit]

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Aoidh (talk) 01:46, 8 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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... that Called Up Sent Down: The Bevin Boys' War describes the experiences of young men "from labourers to barristers" who were conscripted to work as coal miners in Britain during the Second World War? Source: https://www.warwickshireias.org/books
- Reviewed: French law of 29 December 1915

5x expanded by Philafrenzy (talk) and Whispyhistory (talk). Nominated by Philafrenzy (talk) at 23:57, 24 December 2022 (UTC).[reply]

Reviewing
Article is new enough (expanded 5x from 17 Dec and nominated on 24 Dec)
Well written, neutral and supported by inline citations.
Long enough
No copyvio issue on Earwig
Hook is short enough, correctly formatted and supported by inline citation.
QPQ done

Good to go. Papamac (talk) 16:47, 29 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Quotes in article title have been removed so removed here too. Philafrenzy (talk) 18:10, 29 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]