Template:Did you know nominations/A. Donald Davies

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The result was not promoted after 21 days. After the copyright violation was removed by DGG (talk · contribs), this article no longer fulfills DYK's length requirements. Cunard (talk) 06:29, 9 November 2011 (UTC)

A. Donald Davies

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... that although he was the first Episcopal Bishop of Fort Worth, A. Donald Davies founded the Episcopal Missionary Church after his retirement from The Episcopal Church?

Created/expanded by Ben cackles (talk). Self nom at 09:50, 19 October 2011 (UTC)

Dates and lengths both good but article has numerous other issues:
1. (D3) Bare URLS used in footnotes need to be converted into full proper citations.
2. (D6) Article has multiple dispute tages
3. Article has copyvio/close paraphrase issues as shown by this example:
  Article
  
  His actions prompted the House of Bishops of The Episcopal Church to give its consent “sadly” to his deposition in 1994.[8]
  
  Source
  
  His actions prompted the House of Bishops of The Episcopal Church to give its consent “sadly” to his deposition in 1994.

Possible other problems still exist as these concerns made it clear that there was no need to perform all checks at this time. --Allen3 ^talk 00:35, 8 November 2011 (UTC)