Template:Did you know nominations/Walter Campbell Smith

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The result was: promoted by Kimikel talk 13:43, 1 November 2024 (UTC)

Walter Campbell Smith

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... that in retirement and after a long career of military and civil service Walter Campbell Smith changed his legal name to Walter Campbell-Smith?

Source: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/41787/page/5027 - London Gazette, 1959 'Notice is hereby given that by a Deed Poll dated 21st July 1959, and enrolled in the Supreme Court of Judicature on 5th August 1959, I, WALTER CAMPBELL-SMITH ... Retired Civil Servant .. abandoned the surname of Smith. —Dated the 6th day of August 1959. W. Campbell-Smith, formerly Walter Campbell Smith.

ALT1: ... that Walter Campbell Smith's ability in Latin helped win him his first job as a mineralogist in the British Museum, where he then worked for his whole career? Source: Cherry Lewis, The Dating Game, 2012, p 51 - google books extract https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_Dating_Game/d2AZZ3NXuogC? - [Appointment as assistant to the department of mineralogy in 1910] "While Holmes came first in mineralogy .. he came second overall, Latin apparently letting him down. Walter Campbell Smith was awarded the post and stayed there all his working life"
Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Wilf Perreault
Comment: Expanded the article from a 2 line stub, prompted by User: P.d.gunstone who added the category of Artists Rifles

5x expanded by Chaiten1 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 10 past nominations.

Chaiten1 (talk) 10:06, 29 September 2024 (UTC).

This is not a full review right now(I'll try and get that done in a little bit), but I personally believe the hooks aren't really interesting enough for DYK, ALT0, and definitely more so. I didn't spot any eye-catching facts in my very brief pre-skim, but if @Chaiten1: has any other hooks from the article, feel free to add. If anyone disagrees that these are interesting, please ping me so we can discuss. --PixDeVl ~~yell~~ talk to me! 23:38, 2 October 2024 (UTC)

Thank you @PixDeVl: I have one more offline source to check out, but I will come up with a couple more hooks to try out. The guy served in two World Wars, was in the chemical weapons unit at the Somme, and published his last article at the age of 94, so I am sure there's something to be found. Here are two more:
ALT2 ...that Walter Campbell Smith's training in mineralogy led him to volunteer with the chemical warfare unit of British army during World War 1?

Source: Foulkes, Charles (1934). Gas! The story of the Special Brigade. William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh. p. 62. "The twelve volunteers joined at Helfaut ... and were of the greatest assistance in our first three gas attacks. ... Campbell Smith stayed on in the special brigade" [offline source]

ALT3 ...that geologist Walter Campbell Smith was still writing papers at the age of 94?

Source: Journal of Gemmology, 1989 https://gem-a.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/JoG1989_21_8.pdf "culminated in a long paper based largely on his personal knowledge of 'Seventy Years of Research in mineralogy and crystallography in the Department of Mineralogy 1857-1927' which was published in 1982 when he was 94. Chaiten1 (talk) 16:59, 3 October 2024 (UTC)

Awesome, thanks @Chaiten1:, I'll do the review soon. If you get any others from your offline source feel free to add and ping me. I'm leaning toward using ALT3 personally, but if you have something more interesting we can definitely go for it. --PixDeVl ~~yell~~ talk to me! 17:21, 3 October 2024 (UTC)

General eligibility:
New enough:
Long enough:
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Policy compliance:

Adequate sourcing:
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Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:
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Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall:

Looks good to me @Chaiten1: I'm going to WP:BOLDLY go ahead and give this full approval since I'm fairly confident in this being a compliment with the criteria(if someone disagrees please correct me). I will suggest before promoting that perhaps expanding ALT1 to mention who he beat(the guy who pioneered radiometric dating) would probably be interesting enough since beating someone who made such a significant contribution by being better at a now dead language is a fun tidbit. I'd leave it to you to pick which should be promoted(or the promoter, I admit I'm not familiar with the process of closing DYK noms, feel free to point me to the right page or explain it :p). PixDeVl ~~yell~~ talk to me! 17:53, 3 October 2024 (UTC)