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August 27, 2020	Good article nominee	Listed
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Section sizes

Section size for Winston Churchill (81 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	16,211	16,211
Early life	57	16,464
Childhood and schooling: 1874–1895	3,191	3,191
Cuba, India, and Sudan: 1895–1899	6,010	6,010
Politics and South Africa: 1899–1901	4,066	4,066
Conservative MP: 1901–1904	3,140	3,140
Liberal MP: 1904–1908	2,978	2,978
Asquith government: 1908–1915	99	17,843
President of the Board of Trade: 1908–1910	5,091	5,091
Home Secretary: 1910–1911	6,277	6,277
First Lord of the Admiralty	6,376	6,376
Military service, 1915–1916	2,850	2,850
Lloyd George government: 1916–1922	104	7,676
Minister of Munitions: 1917–1919	1,129	1,129
Secretary of State for War and Air: 1919–1921	2,991	2,991
Secretary of State for the Colonies: 1921–1922	3,452	3,452
Out of Parliament: 1922–1924	2,575	2,575
Chancellor of the Exchequer: 1924–1929	1,990	1,990
The "Wilderness Years": 1929–1939	102	10,982
Marlborough and the India Question: 1929–1932	4,329	4,329
Warnings about Germany and the abdication crisis: 1933–1936	3,921	3,921
Anti-appeasement: 1937–1939	2,630	2,630
First Lord of the Admiralty: September 1939 to May 1940	112	3,620
Phoney War and the Norwegian Campaign	1,375	1,375
Norway Debate and Chamberlain's resignation	2,133	2,133
Prime Minister: 1940–45	149	55,874
Dunkirk to Pearl Harbor: May 1940 to December 1941	200	17,658
War ministry created	1,768	1,768
Resolve to fight on	4,117	4,117
Operation Dynamo and the Battle of France	6,024	6,024
Battle of Britain and the Blitz	2,193	2,193
Lend-Lease	1,508	1,508
Operation Barbarossa	953	953
Atlantic Charter	895	895
Pearl Harbor to D-Day: December 1941 to June 1944	56	22,453
Pearl Harbor and United States entry into the war	3,076	3,076
Fall of Singapore and loss of Burma	1,251	1,251
The Bengal Famine	4,744	4,744
International conferences in 1942	2,877	2,877
El Alamein and Stalingrad	1,224	1,224
International conferences in 1943	3,503	3,503
Invasions of Sicily and Italy	3,403	3,403
Preparations for D-Day	986	986
Need for post-war reform	1,333	1,333
Defeat of Germany: June 1944 to May 1945	247	10,874
D-Day: Allied invasion of Normandy	755	755
Quebec Conference, September 1944	469	469
Moscow Conference, October 1944	1,139	1,139
Yalta Conference, February 1945	2,088	2,088
Area bombing controversy	2,947	2,947
VE Day (Victory in Europe Day)	2,057	2,057
Operation Unthinkable	1,172	1,172
Caretaker government: May 1945 to July 1945	811	4,740
Potsdam Conference	990	990
General election, July 1945	2,939	2,939
Leader of the Opposition: 1945–1951	84	5,023
"Iron Curtain" speech	2,726	2,726
European politics	505	505
Ireland	1,054	1,054
1950 and 1951 Elections	654	654
Prime Minister: 1951–1955	119	6,267
Election result and cabinet appointments	883	883
Health issues to eventual resignation	1,769	1,769
Foreign affairs	3,496	3,496
Later life: 1955–1965	70	6,258
Retirement: 1955–1964	1,860	1,860
Death, funeral and memorials	4,328	4,328
Artist, historian, and writer	4,862	4,862
Legacy and assessments	154	8,218
"A man of destiny"	1,473	1,473
Political ideology	2,815	2,815
Imperialism and racial views	3,776	3,776
Cultural depictions	4,217	4,217
Family and ancestry	1,728	1,728
Notes	24	24
See also	48	48
References	15	14,696
Citations	34	34
Print sources	12,987	14,647
Primary sources	1,660	1,660
External links	14,315	14,315
Total	204,719	204,719

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