Template:Did you know nominations/Alvin "Shipwreck" Kelly

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The result was: promoted by PFHLai (talk) 14:16, 28 December 2014 (UTC)

Alvin "Shipwreck" Kelly[edit]

  • ... that Alvin "Shipwreck" Kelly spent over 20,000 hours sitting on flagpoles in the 1920s and 1930s, including hundreds of hours in the rain and subfreezing weather?

5x expanded by Coretheapple (talk). Self nominated at 15:54, 15 December 2014 (UTC).

  • DYK checklist template
General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
QPQ: Done.

Overall: Everything checks out, including the graphic from WikiCommons. A very tidy little job. Although I dislike acting in the absence of the nominator, for purposes of continuity I have moved the Personal life paragraph up one slot, to close the article with his death, there being no Legacy section. GTG.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Georgejdorner (talkcontribs) 16:31, 2014 December 17 (UTC)

Thanks! Moving the section is fine. Actually I am here, I put that little note about my absence in case this was reviewed while I was away during last week of the month. Coretheapple (talk) 16:48, 17 December 2014 (UTC)