Talk:Neil Ritchie

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A fact from Neil Ritchie appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 6 April 2024 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that despite being sacked after losing the Battle of Gazala, Neil Ritchie went on to command a corps in North West Europe?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2024/April. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Neil Ritchie.

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There's a picture of Neil Ritchie which can be uploaded to the commons here. See here for an example of how. Oberiko 15:41, 5 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Unnecessary sentence?

Ritchie had the bad luck to hold his highest command during the earliest phases of the war, when British fortunes were at their lowest ebb. The Eighth Army, in North Africa, were the only British land force engaging the Germans anywhere in the world.

Do we really need the second sentence? How does it add information, or, for that matter, even support the statement in the first statement? Bazuz (talk) 19:00, 3 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

our usage of the Mead source

Rewriting article to differentiate between where our editorial voice is claiming objective fact, and where we let Mead speak. CapnZapp (talk) 14:19, 14 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Photo caption

The second picture has, as its caption, 'a group of officers....', with four names being mentioned, there are five people shown.

RASAM (talk) 14:02, 24 October 2023 (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 Bruxton talk 20:35, 29 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Ritchie in 1944

... that despite being sacked after losing the Battle of Gazala, Neil Ritchie (pictured) went on to command a corps in North-West Europe? Source: https://www.jstor.org/stable/27024882
"The commander of the Eighth Army during this disastrous campaign was Neil Ritchie. As British forces retreated to the east, in what the troops called the ‘Gazala Gallop’, the Commander-in-Chief (C-in-C), Middle East General Sir Claude Auchinleck sacked Ritchie on 25 June 1942, and assumed command of the army himself. But Ritchie’s military career did not end there. Amazingly, within twenty-two months of his dismissal, he returned to command XII Corps during the campaign in North-West Europe."
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Lunar Traverse Gravimeter, Template:Did you know nominations/Wayne Cook (American football)

Improved to Good Article status by Hawkeye7 (talk). Self-nominated at 19:21, 15 March 2024 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Neil Ritchie; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.[reply]

Article has achieved Good Article status. No issues of copyvio or plagiarism. All sources appear reliable. Hook is interesting and sourced. Both required QPQs are done. Looks ready to go. Thriley (talk) 12:53, 17 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]