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A fact from William Nicholas (officer) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 30 January 2023 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that during the bloody siege of Badajoz, William Nicholas (pictured) was wounded by musket-ball and bayonet, but continued to give orders and was carried up the breach, only to be shot again?

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The result was: promoted by SL93 (talk) 01:27, 22 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Major William Nicholas

... that during the bloody Siege of Badajoz William Nicholas (pictured) was wounded by musket-ball and bayonet, but continued to give orders, and was carried up the breach, only to be shot again? Source: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Nicholas,_William
- Reviewed: N/A
- Comment: I've only nominated 2 articles for DYK without doing a QPQ, so technically I have 1 more freebie left after this one

Created by Ficaia (talk). Self-nominated at 23:17, 5 December 2022 (UTC).[reply]

Hook fact needs to be directly cited in the article. Currently only a range of pages is given at the end of the paragraph (this can also apply to the rest of the article, which is sparsely cited). Also, I don't believe that text copied verbatim from a public domain source counts towards the 1,500 character requirement, even if there's no copyvio. (So I would not even consider the article "long enough"). Cheers, KINGofLETTUCE 👑 🥬 11:19, 9 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I'm working on expanding the article to hopefully meet the length requirement. 𝕱𝖎𝖈𝖆𝖎𝖆 (talk) 09:40, 14 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Kingoflettuce: I think this should meet the 1500 character length requirement now. 𝕱𝖎𝖈𝖆𝖎𝖆 (talk) 09:46, 15 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Needs another reviewer. BorgQueen (talk) 13:50, 4 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Article looks good. Hook is interesting enough for me to approve. Onegreatjoke (talk) 18:42, 11 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]