Template:Did you know nominations/Robert Yelverton Tyrrell

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The result was: promoted by SL93 talk 20:50, 13 January 2025 (UTC)

Robert Yelverton Tyrrell

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... that Robert Yelverton Tyrrell became a professor of classics, despite spending only six weeks at school?

Source: Stanford, William Bedell (Winter 1978). "Robert Yelverton Tyrrell" (PDF). Hermathena. 125: 7–8. JSTOR 23040586. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-10-20.

ALT1: ... that Robert Yelverton Tyrrell successfully recommended that A. E. Housman be made a professor, and unsuccessfully recommended that Oscar Wilde be released from jail? Source: * Beard, Mary (2002). "Ciceronian Correspondences: Making a Book out of Letters". In Wiseman, Timothy Peter (ed.). Classics in Progress: Essays on Ancient Greece and Rome. Oxford University Press. p. 107. ISBN 0-19-726323-2. (Housman); Stanford, William Bedell (Winter 1978). "Robert Yelverton Tyrrell" (PDF). Hermathena. 125: 17. JSTOR 23040586. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-10-20.} (Wilde)
ALT2: ... that Robert Yelverton Tyrrell started a "minor civil war" over an edition of the Greek historian Herodotus? Source: Stanford, William Bedell (Winter 1978). "Robert Yelverton Tyrrell" (PDF). Hermathena. 125: 5–6. JSTOR 23040586. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-10-20.}
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Improved to Good Article status by UndercoverClassicist (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 28 past nominations.

UndercoverClassicist ^T·C 17:58, 30 December 2024 (UTC).

Article has achieved Good Article status. No issues of copyvio or plagiarism. All sources appear reliable. Hooks are interesting and sourced. QPQ is done. Looks ready to go. Thriley (talk) 19:07, 30 December 2024 (UTC)