Talk:Jean-Claude Corbeil

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A fact from Jean-Claude Corbeil appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 13 February 2022 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Jean-Claude Corbeil was credited with having "de-anglicized Quebec" during his time as linguistic director of the province's language police?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2022/February. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Jean-Claude Corbeil.

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The result was: promoted by SL93 (talk) 23:48, 8 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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... that Jean-Claude Corbeil was credited with having "de-anglicized Quebec" during his time as linguistic director of the province's language police? Source: Le Devoir (de-anglicized quote); BBC News, CTV News (ref for "language police" nickname; not included in article)
- Reviewed: HMS Cicala
- Comment: Eligible per Rule 1d, because it only appeared in the "Recent Deaths" section of ITN and not as a bold link.

5x expanded by Bloom6132 (talk). Self-nominated at 02:20, 1 February 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: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall:

I accepted the language police terminology, as major English news sources have refered to the agency as such, as supplied in this DYK nom. Z1720 (talk) 00:57, 8 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]