Talk:Walter Heck

A fact from Walter Heck appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 21 July 2022 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that German SA officer Walter Heck was paid only 2.50 ℛℳ (about US$2) for designing the Nazi SS double rune symbol?

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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 Theleekycauldron (talk) 12:33, 13 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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SS double rune symbol

... that Walter Heck was paid 2.5 ℛ︁ℳ︁ (about $2) for designing the Nazi SS double rune symbol (pictured)? Source: https://www.welt.de/geschichte/zweiter-weltkrieg/article162563410/Himmlers-SS-Runen-folgten-bizarren-Vorbildern.html
ALT1... that German graphic designer and SA officer Walter Heck was paid only 2.5 ℛ︁ℳ︁ (about $2) for designing the Nazi SS double rune symbol (pictured)?
ALT2... that German graphic designer and SA officer Walter Heck was paid only 2.5 ℛ︁ℳ︁ (about $2) for designing the Nazi SS double rune symbol (pictured), and did not retain the copyright?
ALT3... that graphic designer Walter Heck was paid so little for creating the Nazi SS double rune symbol (pictured), that Heinrich Himmler offered him a house and garden if he survived World War II?

Philafrenzy (talk) 12:56, 8 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Mary Baines

Created by Edwardx (talk), Philafrenzy (talk), and Whispyhistory (talk). Nominated by Edwardx (talk) at 10:38, 8 July 2022 (UTC).[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook eligibility:

Cited:
Interesting:
Other problems: - Too long

Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
Freely licensed: Used in article: Clear at 100px:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: The article, hook, and picture all look great. Kudos to everyone who worked on this! The only problem is that ALT3 is too long (223 characters not counting the (pictured) part). Can you trim this so it can be approved as an option? If not, I can just approve ALT1 and ALT2. BuySomeApples (talk) 22:50, 10 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, BuySomeApples. I have had a go at trimming ALT3 - hope it is enough. Edwardx (talk) 22:58, 10 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
- Thanks @Edwardx: that gets it under the maximum character limit so all hooks are good to go. I also changed "the Second World War" to "World War II" just to trim a few more characters. BuySomeApples (talk) 23:25, 10 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]