Template:Did you know nominations/I.B. Donalson
- 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 SL93 talk 23:25, 10 May 2025 (UTC)
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I.B. Donalson
I.B. Donalson
- ... that fighter pilot I.B. Donalson (pictured) was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for his actions while commanding a boat as an infantryman during the Battle of Bataan?
Created by Toadboy123 (talk).
Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 50 past nominations.
Toadboy123 (talk) 06:33, 7 April 2025 (UTC).
- The interesting part is that a fighter pilot won a medal for his work on a boat. How would you feel about truncating "as an infantryman during the Battle of Bataan"? DS (talk) 15:21, 7 April 2025 (UTC)
- @DS How is it now? : "...that fighter pilot I.B. Donalson (pictured) was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross as an infantryman during the Battle of Bataan?" - Toadboy123 (talk) 0:16, 8 April 2025 (UTC).
- That's the exact opposite of what I suggested; are you sure you read it correctly? DS (talk) 03:37, 8 April 2025 (UTC)
- @DS Apologies. How about now? "...that fighter pilot I.B. Donalson (pictured) was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for his actions while commanding a boat?" - Toadboy123 (talk) 04:38, 8 April 2025 (UTC).
- Better, yes. Elsewhere - article is both new enough and long enough. QPQ is done. Earwig says 72%, but that's because you quoted Donalson's presidential citation. I'm not thrilled with you having cited Free Republic; the original is still accessible via archive.org. Text in every paragraph is supported; hook is hook-y. Content is neutral. References seem generally okay, although in future I'd recommend using {{rp}} to indicate pages within a source. In sum,
. DS (talk) 20:04, 8 April 2025 (UTC)
- @DS Thank You. Regarding Free Republic, I wasn't aware of its prior history. I have removed it and placed the archived link of the obituary from Wayback. - Toadboy123 (talk) 06:42, 9 April 2025 (UTC).
- Better, yes. Elsewhere - article is both new enough and long enough. QPQ is done. Earwig says 72%, but that's because you quoted Donalson's presidential citation. I'm not thrilled with you having cited Free Republic; the original is still accessible via archive.org. Text in every paragraph is supported; hook is hook-y. Content is neutral. References seem generally okay, although in future I'd recommend using {{rp}} to indicate pages within a source. In sum,
- @DS Apologies. How about now? "...that fighter pilot I.B. Donalson (pictured) was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for his actions while commanding a boat?" - Toadboy123 (talk) 04:38, 8 April 2025 (UTC).
- That's the exact opposite of what I suggested; are you sure you read it correctly? DS (talk) 03:37, 8 April 2025 (UTC)
