Template:Did you know nominations/Ram Nath Chawla

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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:38, 12 March 2019 (UTC)

Ram Nath Chawla

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... that Ram Nath Chawla was the first Indian to pilot an aircraft from India to England?
ALT1... that Ram Nath Chawla and Aspy Engineer were the first Indians to pilot an aircraft from India to England?

Reviewed: Ikeda taenioides
Comment: 5 x expanded from 20 Feb.

5x expanded by Whispyhistory (talk) and Philafrenzy (talk). Nominated by Philafrenzy (talk) at 17:59, 27 February 2019 (UTC).

Article length is fine. Article age is marginal - it wasn't actually 5 x expanded from 20 Feb, but it was created on 19 Feb, which is technically 8 days to 27 Feb; possibly promoting admin will raise this as an issue, but there isn't anything you can do about it now, and so I am inclined to let it slide. No copyvio or plagiarism concerns, reliable sources are used. Honestly, Wikipedia:Notability and WP:GNG is only marginal - there is one, not extremely long, article about the subject, the others are not really about him, we normally want either one very indepth source, or more than one somewhat indepth. But that would be a WP:AFD issue, not WP:DYK as such. But if you could find one more source really about him, the odds of it being just deleted would drop noticeably. The hook isn't quite correct; you say "fly", which could mean "to pilot a plane", but usually doesn't, after all, in the modern usage, several hundred people fly for every pilot. Surely there were other Indian passengers from India to England before? Even in his case, he had a copilot, who also flew, right? So I'd recommend "to pilot a plane" or something. One last matter. Um. This is kind of embarrassing (or funny, or both), but I'm a computer programmer. Sometimes called a software engineer. It is not too rare to find other people in my field with significant significant difficulties in social interaction and nonverbal communication, along with restricted and repetitive patterns of behavior and interests. So, well, when I read the name of the copilot, my first reaction was to search the article history to find out when this clearly obvious vandalism was introduced! Would you, as a personal favor to me, and my peers, would you be so kind as to wiki-link the name a few more times when it is encountered, or spell it out with his middle name, or both?

Thanks. When you deal with as many of these issues as you can, could you please ping me, and I'll come look again? --GRuban (talk) 03:01, 8 March 2019 (UTC)

Thank you for your detailed review. I changed the hook to "pilot an aircraft" and made some changes to Aspy's links. I added an alt. I think Whispyhistory is adding a few more sources. Philafrenzy (talk) 12:38, 8 March 2019 (UTC)

P.S. the expansion by Whispyhistory began on 14.47 on 20 Feb and is marked as such in the edit summary. It was nominated by me at 17.59 on the 27th making it about 3 hours late. Here is the last edit on the 19th for comparison. Philafrenzy (talk) 13:44, 8 March 2019 (UTC)

HI...I can't think of any more to add. Thanks for reviewing and persevering. Whispyhistory (talk) 17:20, 11 March 2019 (UTC)

--GRuban (talk) 20:45, 11 March 2019 (UTC)