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The result was: promoted by
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ALT1:... that historically, retiring newspapermen would be banged out, walking through the
print room to a slow beat made by printers hitting hammers against their desks? "There used to be a tradition in Fleet Street newspapers called "banging out". It involved an employee, on the day he retired after a life-time's stalwart service to his chosen rag, being walked by his colleagues through the presses in the print room. As he wandered towards his rendezvous with a carriage clock, the printers serenaded him by whacking the metal benches with their hammers, beating out a ceremonial slow-march to mark his departure." from:
"It's Friday, so where's the leaving do?". The Independent. 23 October 2011. Retrieved 29 December 2020.
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Dumelow (
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Article is newly created, over the required prose size and is well written. The hooks are interesting and have inline citations to reliable sources. QPQ has been provided, good to go.
Kosack (
talk) 16:30, 30 December 2020 (UTC)reply
A fact from Banging out appeared on Wikipedia's
Main Page in the Did you know column on 18 January 2021 (
check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Media, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of
Media on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join
the discussion and see a list of open tasks.MediaWikipedia:WikiProject MediaTemplate:WikiProject MediaMedia articles
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Business, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of
business articles on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join
the discussion and see a list of open tasks.BusinessWikipedia:WikiProject BusinessTemplate:WikiProject BusinessWikiProject Business articles
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
Yoninah (
talk) 19:53, 13 January 2021 (UTC)reply
ALT1:... that historically, retiring newspapermen would be banged out, walking through the
print room to a slow beat made by printers hitting hammers against their desks? "There used to be a tradition in Fleet Street newspapers called "banging out". It involved an employee, on the day he retired after a life-time's stalwart service to his chosen rag, being walked by his colleagues through the presses in the print room. As he wandered towards his rendezvous with a carriage clock, the printers serenaded him by whacking the metal benches with their hammers, beating out a ceremonial slow-march to mark his departure." from:
"It's Friday, so where's the leaving do?". The Independent. 23 October 2011. Retrieved 29 December 2020.
Moved to mainspace by
Dumelow (
talk). Self-nominated at 09:57, 30 December 2020 (UTC).reply
Article is newly created, over the required prose size and is well written. The hooks are interesting and have inline citations to reliable sources. QPQ has been provided, good to go.
Kosack (
talk) 16:30, 30 December 2020 (UTC)reply