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On 17 September 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Irish Donation of 1676, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that an 1847 shipment of Massachusetts foreign aid to Ireland was called repayment for an Irish donation to Massachusetts in 1676? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Irish Donation of 1676. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, Irish Donation of 1676), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Alex Shih ^Talk 12:04, 17 September 2017 (UTC)

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Hello, Chetsford. This is a courtesy notice that the copy edit you requested for Winged Victory (statue) at the Guild of Copy Editors requests page is now complete. All feedback welcome! I did mendings for yuo, yes. 94.196.68.132 ( talk) 23:04, 25 September 2017 (UTC)

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On 5 October 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Winged Victory (statue), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the Olympia, Washington war memorial Winged Victory features a Red Cross nurse? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Winged Victory (statue). You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, Winged Victory (statue)), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Alex Shih ^Talk 03:32, 5 October 2017 (UTC)

In case you haven't noticed it yet, I provided a review for Template:Did you know nominations/William Carpentier about a week ago. It has two minor issues to be addressed. Mind matrix 13:46, 9 October 2017 (UTC)

On 12 October 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article German People's Radio, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that German People's Radio pretended to broadcast from within Germany, but was actually located in Moscow? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/German People's Radio. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, German People's Radio), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Alex Shih ^Talk 01:48, 12 October 2017 (UTC)

bibliographies

Thank you for quality articles about radio stations such as German People's Radio, for Oxford Bibliographies Online, for articles about North Dakota politicians, such as Gretchen Dobervich and Sebastian Ertelt, for reviewing and updating, - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

-- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 10:34, 12 October 2017 (UTC)

Thank you, Gerda Arendt! Chetsford ( talk) 03:15, 15 October 2017 (UTC)

On 15 October 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article State Reception Room, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the State Reception Room (pictured) in Olympia, Washington, has what was once the world's largest single-loom carpet? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/State Reception Room. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, State Reception Room), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Alex Shih ^Talk 01:01, 15 October 2017 (UTC)

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Hello! Your submission of William Carpentier at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! BlueMoonset ( talk) 22:05, 25 October 2017 (UTC)

Other than a little MOS cleanup I didn't find much to change in Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean. My notes:

• the historic informal name " Columbia". If you want, you can put Columbia in italics instead of double-quotes. Your choice. (see MOS:WAW - words as words)
• Is the Arthur Jonston quoted this person: Arthur Johnston (composer)? He would seems to be the right age for The High School Journal, though that's just a guess.
• I feel it would be good to mention who some of these people are on first mention, for example, "author Arthur Johnston" or "music researcher Arthur Johnston", "musicologist W. H. Grattan Flood" and "librarian William Studwell". The profession shows the reader how the person is an authority on the subject without having to follow the link.
• as a 12 year-old boy I feel that could be trimmed.

I can explain the MOS changes if you'd like, but it's just little nit-picky things that most editors shouldn't be bothered with. Interesting read, should be a good DYK. Ping me here if you have any questions or comments. –  Reidgreg ( talk) 17:12, 26 October 2017 (UTC)

Hello Chetsford, and thanks for patrolling new pages! I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Post Affiliate Pro, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: Not promotional enough for G11, consider PROD or AfD. You may wish to review the Criteria for Speedy Deletion before tagging further pages. Thank you. TonyBallioni ( talk) 04:32, 29 October 2017 (UTC)

Nice timing on John Hirasaki for me. I'm currently reading a book on the Hornet's recovery of Apollo 11, and had planned to add a mention of him in the quarantine portion of the Apollo 11 article; your new article prompted me to do that. TJRC ( talk) 03:55, 30 October 2017 (UTC)

TJRC - thanks so much! The article is very embryonic. I hope to fill it out later. Chetsford ( talk) 03:57, 30 October 2017 (UTC)

Well, they often start small. One of my earliest contributions was Jack King (NASA), and it never did get very large; but the important stuff is there.

Judging from your edit here, it looks like we may both be reading the same book, Moon Men Return. I have Hornet Plus Three sitting next to it, next on my reading list. TJRC ( talk) 04:51, 30 October 2017 (UTC)

We are indeed, TJRC! Chetsford ( talk) 22:07, 2 November 2017 (UTC)

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On 31 October 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article William Carpentier, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Dr. William Carpentier, the flight surgeon for Apollo 11 and Apollo 13, was registered on the Air Force One manifest as WFP – "World Famous Physician"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/William Carpentier. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, William Carpentier), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cas Liber ( talk · contribs) 00:02, 31 October 2017 (UTC)

Chetsford, I would greatly appreciate if you did not maliciously nominate my articles for deletion. After I called you out in your attempt to get the Scott Guggenheim page I created deleted, you have gone and proposed 3 of my articles for deletion. You already withdrew one of your nominations after realizing you were wrong. This behavior is really unnecessary. I already pointed out the Wiki guidelines that argue against simply nominating pages for deletion in favor of expanding them and finding more sources. And you are not looking at the actual notability guidelines rather you are favoring your own opinion. Kuching7102 ( talk) 21:23, 2 November 2017 (UTC)

While I can't promise you that I won't nominate articles you've created for deletion, you have my personal assurance I will not do so maliciously. Chetsford ( talk) 21:28, 2 November 2017 (UTC)

That's good to hear. Evidently we have different opinions about nominating articles for deletion, I would generally give articles the benefit of the doubt whereas you are less forgiving, and I've given you my point of view, so there you go. Kuching7102 ( talk) 23:04, 2 November 2017 (UTC)

I note your point of view. Chetsford ( talk) 04:25, 3 November 2017 (UTC)

Just a head-up, you seem to be marking all your edits as "minor," even when they're quite substantial. Help:Minor edit explains when to use the "minor edit" tag; basically for only superficial edits like correcting typos and spelling. TJRC ( talk) 05:57, 4 November 2017 (UTC)

Are you sure all of my edits are marked as minor? By my count [1] less than half of my edits are marked as minor. I routinely mark edits as minor on articles less than 72 hours old in which no person, other than myself, has edited the page since, in the absence of any other editor working on the page, they "could never be the subject of a dispute" (as per Minor Edit). Chetsford ( talk) 06:04, 4 November 2017 (UTC)

My bad on the use of "all"; I was misled by the long string of edits on Helicopter 66 marked minor. Some of them are the minor-marked ones are indeed minor, but many (e.g. [2], [3], [4]) are not. Note, they're not objectionable edits; they're just not minor ones. TJRC ( talk) 00:03, 9 November 2017 (UTC)

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Hello! Your submission of Helicopter 66 at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah ( talk) 11:42, 8 November 2017 (UTC)

On 12 November 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article John Hirasaki, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that NASA engineer John Hirasaki says he read The Andromeda Strain prior to being quarantined with the returning Apollo 11 astronauts? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/John Hirasaki. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, John Hirasaki), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cas Liber ( talk · contribs) 00:03, 12 November 2017 (UTC)

On 14 November 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Government Army, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that, in 1944, eleven battalions of the Government Army of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia were sent to northern Italy to support German military operations? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Government Army. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, Government Army), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cas Liber ( talk · contribs) 00:03, 14 November 2017 (UTC)

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The article Antarctic Treaty issue has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Of the thousands of stamps issued by the United States Post Office Department and United States Postal Service, there is nothing special or unique that distinguishes this issue which would warrant a stand-alone stub, not like the 10 US issues that have their own articles (see the United States entries in the List of postage stamps). It merely lists the basic facts and there are no independent third-party reliable source to support anything notable, like a controversy, a printing error, design mistake, or any such thing. It might be suitable for merging into the North Atlantic Treaty article.

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On 23 November 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Helicopter 66, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Helicopter 66, which recovered astronauts from five different Apollo missions, has been called "one of the most famous, or at least most iconic, helicopters in history"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Helicopter 66. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, Helicopter 66), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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On 24 November 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Flemming Helweg-Larsen, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that in 1946, Flemming Helweg-Larsen became the first person executed by Denmark in more than 50 years? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Flemming Helweg-Larsen. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, Flemming Helweg-Larsen), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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