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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 Carabinieri (talk) 09:19, 2 October 2014 (UTC)

Gabriel Wells

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  • ... that Gabriel Wells bought a book that took two years to inlay with 1,050 jewels, gave it to a passenger on the Titanic to bring to the US, and lost it when the ship sank?

Created by Philafrenzy (talk), Edwardx (talk), Yoninah (talk). Nominated by Edwardx (talk) at 22:37, 1 September 2014 (UTC).

  • New enough, long enough, adequately referenced, no close paraphrasing seen. However, I found the article to be rather sketchy on why he was "one of the most important antiquarian booksellers in America and Britain in the first half of the twentieth century" and did a little research, coming up with a huge slice of his life and work. I would appreciate a co-credit for this page. The hooks are both good, verified and cited inline. Good to go. Yoninah (talk) 22:57, 1 October 2014 (UTC)