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A fact from James Alexander Ulio appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 7 January 2025 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that during World War II, US Army casualty telegrams were sent out in the name of Major General James Alexander Ulio?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2025/January. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/James Alexander Ulio.

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B class review

C class. This will be B class after two minor fixes are made, as follows. Djmaschek (talk) 21:03, 22 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Early life and career, paragraph 1, last sentence: not cited.
Casualty notification, paragraph 2: "It was not unusual for missing soldiers to turn Updates...": End of sentence appears to be missing after the word "turn".

Done Hawkeye7 (discuss) 02:26, 23 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
B class. Djmaschek (talk) 03:08, 27 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review

This review is transcluded from Talk:James Alexander Ulio/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Nominator: Hawkeye7 (talk · contribs) 18:39, 26 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Reviewer: Zawed (talk · contribs) 08:54, 12 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I will review, comments to follow in due course. Zawed (talk) 08:54, 12 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Comments as follows:

Lead

Suggest treating the Pancho Villa Expedition as separate to World War I
Y Moved the sentence about the Pancho Villa Expedition to the previous section. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 18:49, 4 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Early

The infobox says he served in the Philippine–American War, but in this section his service in the Philippines was a few years afterwards
Y The text says he "served in the Philippines from 1906 to 1908"; the Philippine–American War went from 1899 to 1911. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 18:49, 4 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

World War I

Suggest putting the link for (see American entry into World War I) onto the text "...United States entered World War I..."
Y Changed as suggested. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 18:49, 4 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
"In March 1918, he..." no need to recite year, already established it is 1918. Same applies to the usage of 1918 in following sentences. Similarly the second usage of 1917 in the previous sentence
Y deleted. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 18:49, 4 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
After the Armistice was signed in November 1918,...: seems repetitive since the Armistice has already been mentioned
Y Deleted. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 18:49, 4 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Between the wars

After graduation, Ulio was again assigned to the Office of the Adjutant General of the Army from 1931 to 1935.: seems to me the date range should be to 1932, given the way the next paragraph starts
Y The year 1931 is correct, as he graduated in June 1931. Re-worded. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 18:49, 4 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Following his promotion to colonel on 1 August 1935, he became chief of staff of the Hawaiian Department.: this seems inconsistent with what is stated in the previous sentence unless he was concurrently on the service command section
Y Re-worded. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 18:49, 4 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Some of the years recited in the last paragraph of this section are redundant
Y Deleted one. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 18:49, 4 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

World War II

No issues noted here

Later life

Does the bronze oak leaf cluster constitute a second award of the DSM? The infobox says two were awarded?
Yes, it does. The New Zealand equivalent would be a medal bar. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 18:49, 4 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sources

The sources themselves seem reliable for what they are used for
Spot checks done for cites 11 (both instances) and 35 and both are OK
I get 404 errors when attempting to access the pdf sources.
Y The Center of Military History has been moving stuff around, and you now need "www.history.army.mil" instead of "www.history.army.mil". Updated the links. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 18:49, 4 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for that. More source checks: cites 17, 18, 24, 25, 30 all OK. Zawed (talk) 09:01, 9 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Other stuff

Image tags used appropriate
Dupe links: first lieutenant, captain, major, 'Fort Leavenworth, Kansas'
Y Removed the dups. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 18:49, 4 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

That's it for me. Apologies for the delay in coming back to this, other projects and time got away on me. Zawed (talk) 09:15, 4 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

No worries. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 18:49, 4 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Happy with this one, and am passing as GA as I believe it meets the necessary criteria. Cheers, Zawed (talk) 09:05, 9 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Did you know nomination

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 AirshipJungleman29 talk 13:41, 3 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Western Union missing in action (MIA) telegram from James A. Ulio

... that during World War II, US Army casualty telegrams (example pictured) were sent out in the name of Major General James Alexander Ulio? Source: Mesches, Alan E. (2020). Major General James A. Ulio: Winning World War II from a Desk. Philadelphia: Casemate Publishers. ISBN 978-1-61200-826-4. OCLC 1227652141, pp.23-24
- Reviewed: [[Template:Did you know nominations/Amy Sawyer, Template:Did you know nominations/Ketchup chip]]

Improved to Good Article status by Hawkeye7 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 434 past nominations.

Hawkeye7 (discuss) 19:31, 9 December 2024 (UTC).[reply]

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:

Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
Freely licensed: Used in article: Clear at 100px:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: New enough, long enough, hook fact is cited and interesting. Earwig isn't happy, but it's a giant blockquote that it's flagging (from a PD source at that). Image is free, different than what we normally get. Good to go! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 22:00, 9 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]