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A fact from Paul Freeman (communist) appeared on Wikipedia's
Main Page in the Did you know column on 11 February 2023 (
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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
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... that Paul Freeman became one of the few Westerners interred at the
Kremlin Wall Necropolis, following his death in
an experimental propeller-driven Soviet railcar(pictured)? Source:
Australian Dictionary of Biography (cited in article): "[Freeman] died of injuries sustained in the crash of an experimental monorail train on 24 July 1921". Evans 1989 (cited in article): "Paul Freeman was destined to become [...] one of the few Western radicals of his era to be interred with honour at the Kremlin wall"
Overall: Looks good! Happy to pass. No concerns and comparison with sources doesn't reveal any close paraphrasing. I tracked down an image of his burial on the Kremlin wall and added it.
Blythwood (
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00:58, 16 January 2023 (UTC)reply
This article is written in
Australian English, which has its own spelling conventions (colour, realise, program, labour (but Labor Party)) and some terms that are used in it may be different or absent from other
varieties of English. According to the
relevant style guide, this should not be changed without
broad consensus.
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Paul Freeman (communist) is within the scope of WikiProject Australia, which aims to improve Wikipedia's coverage of
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A fact from Paul Freeman (communist) appeared on Wikipedia's
Main Page in the Did you know column on 11 February 2023 (
check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
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.
... that Paul Freeman became one of the few Westerners interred at the
Kremlin Wall Necropolis, following his death in
an experimental propeller-driven Soviet railcar(pictured)? Source:
Australian Dictionary of Biography (cited in article): "[Freeman] died of injuries sustained in the crash of an experimental monorail train on 24 July 1921". Evans 1989 (cited in article): "Paul Freeman was destined to become [...] one of the few Western radicals of his era to be interred with honour at the Kremlin wall"
Overall: Looks good! Happy to pass. No concerns and comparison with sources doesn't reveal any close paraphrasing. I tracked down an image of his burial on the Kremlin wall and added it.
Blythwood (
talk)
00:58, 16 January 2023 (UTC)reply