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A fact from John Ernest Adamson appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 28 December 2023 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the son of an engine fitter from England became Director of Education in part of modern-day South Africa for almost twenty years?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2023/December. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/John Ernest Adamson.

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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 PrimalMustelid talk 16:53, 19 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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... that the son of an engine fitter from England became Director of Education in part of modern day South Africa for almost twenty years? Source: Kallaway, Peter (6 January 2011). "Adamson, Sir John Ernest". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Michael Shanks (politician)

Created by Llewee (talk). Self-nominated at 11:05, 16 October 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/John Ernest Adamson; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.[reply]

@Llewee: Long enough, new enough. No maintenance templates found, no neutrality problems found. All refs offline or paywalled, happy to AGF. However, the hook needs a citation at the end of the sentence (and really, those paragraphs are far too long anyway). In addition, "(See:1923 Birthday Honours and 1924 Birthday Honours)" looks a bit like you're citing Wikipedia, which isn't allowed.--Laun chba ller 12:39, 7 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for reviewing my nomination. The content of that sentence is mentioned in the next source. I just included the see also as additional information. I will give the article a tidy up in a moment. Llewee (talk) 12:58, 7 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Launchballer Hopefully should be OK now.Llewee (talk) 13:14, 7 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Good to go.--Laun chba ller 13:57, 7 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]