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Maurice Wilder-Neligan

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This is the archived discussion of the TFAR nomination for the article below. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests). Please do not modify this page.

The result was: scheduled for Wikipedia:Today's featured article/July 29, 2018 by Jimfbleak - talk to me? 09:07, 18 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Wilder-Neligan as a lieutenant colonel

Lieutenant Colonel Maurice Wilder-Neligan, CMG, DSO & Bar, DCM (4 October 1882 – 10 January 1923), was a rather eccentric British-born Australian soldier. He emigrated to Australia before the war, and enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force to serve in World War I. He was decorated for bravery and commissioned during the Gallipoli campaign of 1915. On the Western Front in early 1916, he led a "most brilliant" raid, resulting in a second decoration for gallantry. In July 1917, he was promoted to lieutenant colonel and was appointed to command the 10th Battalion. He led it during the Battle of the Menin Road Ridge in September and was made a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in June 1918. Perhaps his greatest achievement was the capture of Merris on 29 July, for which he was again decorated for courage. After the war, he worked as a district officer in the Territory of New Guinea, where he died at the age of 40. (Full article...)

  • Fair enough - and after reading the article, the nature of his eccentricity seems tricky to summarise into a blurb-style sentence. Support The article remains in great shape, and is a good choice given the centenary of both this event and the war. Nick-D (talk) 22:21, 10 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Well ... the blurb length is 1208 characters (we're aiming for 1000 these days), so something needs to be cut. "eccentric" is a likely target, since the blurb doesn't explain what it means. But it's great that you're livening up the blurb ... TFA could use more of that. - Dank (push to talk) 14:52, 15 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Yes, and I apologize for the short notice. The (lack of) discussion was at WT:Today's_featured_article/Archive_10#Blurb note. It used to work to aim for around 1100, but I kept finding more and more blurbs that just weren't going to go over 1000 characters no matter what, and over the years, consistency in column length has become more important at ERRORS. But I wanted to wait a couple of months and make sure that the new 925-to-1075 limits didn't cause friction. They haven't (so far), so I just recently changed over to the new numbers on TFA pages. Your blurb looks good ... can I say that the raid was praised by war historians rather than putting "most brilliant" in quotes? I don't like unattributed quotes, per WP:INTEXT. Also, we haven't been doing postnominals at TFA for many years, but if you want to write one or more of them out in the text, that's fine. - Dank (push to talk) 01:56, 16 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]