Template:Did you know nominations/Thomas Highgate

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The result was: promoted by Bruxton (talk) 00:43, 18 March 2023 (UTC)

Thomas Highgate

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... that Thomas Highgate was the first British soldier to be convicted of desertion and executed by firing squad? Source: Johnson, David (2015). Executed at Dawn: British Firing Squads on the Western Front 1914-1918. United Kingdom: The History Press. ISBN 978-0-7509-5917-9. Page 19
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Improved to Good Article status by Unexpectedlydian (talk). Nominated by Onegreatjoke (talk) at 17:58, 6 February 2023 (UTC). Note: As of October 2022, all changes made to promoted hooks will be logged by a bot. The log for this nomination can be found at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Thomas Highgate, so please watch a successfully closed nomination until the hook appears on the Main Page.

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: A good article, passes earwig and is adequately sourced. No close paraphrasing was found, and the hook is interesting, cited inline, and verified. QPQ done. Nom good to go. Pseud 14 (talk) 21:52, 8 February 2023 (UTC)

@Unexpectedlydian, Onegreatjoke, and Pseud 14: The hook fact appears in the lede without a citation...then later in the body text, it's worded differently "Highgate was the first British soldier to be shot for cowardice on the Western Front" which doesn't exactly match. (That particular wording suggests another British soldier might have been shot for something else before him.) Could you please address this somehow? Maybe the hook could match that particular wording more closely (or vice versa)? Cielquiparle (talk) 15:49, 23 February 2023 (UTC)

@Cielquiparle and Pseud 14: I guess we can try "... that Thomas Highgate was the first British soldier to be executed for cowardice on the Western Front of World War I?" Onegreatjoke (talk) 20:22, 23 February 2023 (UTC)

@Onegreatjoke, Unexpectedlydian, and Pseud 14: I've now checked the source, and it doesn't say "cowardice" there, so I'm inclined to fix the wording of ALT1 as follows (and also revert to British terminology for the First World War):

ALT1a: ... that Thomas Highgate was the first British soldier on the Western Front to be executed for desertion during the First World War?

Cielquiparle (talk) 11:38, 17 March 2023 (UTC)

@Cielquiparle: Thanks so much for picking this up. Sorry that this dropped off my radar. ALT1a looks good to me :) Unexpectedlydian^♯4 talk^‽ 22:26, 17 March 2023 (UTC)