Template:Did you know nominations/Sir Charles Saxton, 1st Baronet

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The following discussion 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 Miyagawa (talk) 10:49, 28 September 2013 (UTC)

Sir Charles Saxton, 1st Baronet[edit]

Captain Charles Saxton

* ... that Sir Charles Saxton's (pictured) career included commanding ships during the Seven Years' War and American War of Independence, and serving as commissioner at Portsmouth during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars?

Created by Benea (talk). Self nominated at 19:43, 9 September 2013 (UTC).

  • Hook is 215 characters, excluding "(pictured)", which is over the allowable limit. Please suggest an ALT1 hook that is significantly shorter; while the absolute maximum is officially 200 characters, a better length is below 190 at the outside. BlueMoonset (talk) 00:18, 20 September 2013 (UTC)
Includes the salient facts, and is 189 characters long. Benea (talk) 01:18, 20 September 2013 (UTC)
  • The hook length is now fine, but some of the key facts are not inline cited by the end of the sentence containing them, a requirement of DYK. (This was true originally; the nomination should not have been approved.) In particular, the sentence in the article that is used to support the hook's second half—from "and was commissioner" to the end—needs an inline source citation. Once it has that, the nomination can be reapproved. This is an interesting article: I hope you'll considering trying to make it a Good Article at some point. BlueMoonset (talk) 04:00, 22 September 2013 (UTC)
Thank you for that, I've added a cite to the end of the sentence. Benea (talk) 05:17, 22 September 2013 (UTC)
Hook fully cited, source accepted in good faith (behind paywall for me); rest of approval per review by Piotrus. BlueMoonset (talk) 12:35, 22 September 2013 (UTC)