Template:Did you know nominations/Stembridge Gun Rentals

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The result was: promoted by Theleekycauldron (talk) 19:17, 13 November 2021 (UTC)

Stembridge Gun Rentals

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James Arness as Matt Dillon

... that almost every firearm fired in a US movie or television show was once supplied by Stembridge Gun Rentals, including Matt Dillon's Colt single-action (pictured) and the guns used to kill Sonny Corleone? Source: https://www.coolfx.us/rpf/stembridge_7000_guns_for_hire.pdf "A special display shows the firearms of television's cowpokes -- Matt Dillon's Colt single-action ..." and "almost any time a gun goes off in a movie or on television (no matter how old the film) it's highly likely...provided by Sembridge" https://books.google.com/books?id=2uHYDOa8OXcC&newbks=0&printsec=frontcover&dq=gun+guys&hl=en#v=onepage&q=gun%20guys&f=false "for the rest of the century furnished the guns for just about every movie made in Hollywood" and "these were the guns they used to kill Sonny at the tollbooth"

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Lesley Akyaa Opoku Ware

Created by Valereee (talk). Self-nominated at 16:16, 23 October 2021 (UTC).

New article is 4,199 characters long and nominated on the same day as creation. No copyvios detected (AGF all refs re. any close paraphrasing issues, since none can go through Dup detector). Article is well-sourced. Hook is 194 characters long (under 200 character max.) and is interesting. Refs 2 and 3 (verifying the hook) are reliable sources. QPQ done. Image is free and in the public domain. Looks good to go! —Bloom6132 (talk) 01:38, 25 October 2021 (UTC)

Bloom6132, thanks for the review! —valereee (talk) 10:30, 25 October 2021 (UTC)

Poster showing rifle

ALT1: ... that Stembridge Gun Rentals supplied so many firearms to the film industry, when Chaplin producers asked for a rifle similar to that in Shoulder Arms (pictured), Stembridge had on hand the actual gun used?

Bloom6132, I've found a second alt, would you be willing to check it? —valereee (talk) 19:18, 25 October 2021 (UTC)

ALT1 is 205 characters long (but under 200 character max. at 194 when (pictured) is ignored). ALT1 fact verified by ref 3. Second image is free and in the public domain. —Bloom6132 (talk) 22:40, 25 October 2021 (UTC)

Promoter's comment to @Bloom6132: hi there! In this case, I didn't take the image, so I cut the (pictured) out of the hook, but in general, the pictured does count towards the final character. Any characters inside the parentheses that aren't pictured, however, don't count. theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (they/them) 19:17, 13 November 2021 (UTC)

ALT1 to T:DYK/P2