Talk:Robert Rattenbury

A fact from Robert Rattenbury appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 15 January 2023 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Robert Rattenbury said to his student Geoffrey Kirk: "Good Heavens! Well, I don't suppose I shall be seeing you again"?

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Did you know nomination

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 Bruxton (talk) 01:55, 31 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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... that Robert Rattenbury mistakenly said to his student Geoffrey Kirk "Good Heavens! Well, I don’t suppose I shall be seeing you again!"?

Source: Hugh Lloyd-Jones, "Geoffrey Stephen Kirk 1921–2003" (obituary), thebritishacademy.ac.uk, accessed 11 December 2022

- ALT1: ... that Cambridge Registrary Robert Rattenbury had played at outside right for the Westminster School soccer First XI?
  Source: The Elizabethan, vol. XVI, no. 10 (June 1920), p. 88; (for Cambridge Registrary) "RATTENBURY, Robert Mantle" in Who's Who (London, 1968), p. 2524
- Reviewed: Verge (royal court)

Created by Moonraker (talk). Self-nominated at 12:17, 17 December 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: Article is new enough, long enough and is well sourced. Article is neutral and plagiarism free. Both hooks are cited, although I think a third option on the Hungarian revolution students might be hookier still. QPQ is done. Lajmmoore (talk) 11:19, 28 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the review, Lajmmoore. I agree that ALT1 is not much good. The Hungarian students would have been a good hook for the nomination of Robert Bolgar, but I found a better one. The main hook here is meant to get people wondering “What on earth is this about?”. Me, I rather like it. Moonraker (talk) 02:37, 29 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the explanation Moonraker - I guess if you're thinking of it as a sort of cryptic hook then that could work. Passed on the basis of your explanation. I've struck ALT1 though, for clarity. Thanks for putting the work into the article! Lajmmoore (talk) 10:54, 29 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]