Talk:Walter Cornelius

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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The result was: withdrawn by nominator, closed by BlueMoonset (talk) 01:04, 22 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Article too short to qualify for DYK and has sourcing issues; withdrawn by nominator.

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... that Walter Cornelius attempted to fly across the River Nene by wearing a bird-suit and flapping huge wings attached to his arms?
Source: "Walter Cornelius: Life of daredevil 'birdman' remembered". BBC News. 11 October 2018.

Created by Arrivisto (talk). Nominated by Paul Carpenter (talk) at 10:19, 5 October 2020 (UTC).[reply]

Hi Paul Carpenter, the article is currently too short to qualify (I measure it at 1,398 characters) and the last two sentences of the second paragraph are not cited. The article would also benefit from a proper lead section, in accordance with WP:LEAD - Dumelow (talk) 13:31, 6 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I've tidied up the article's categories (should never have been nominated in that state to be honest) and then read the main source as escaping from Latvia by swimming sounded rather dubious. And what do you know? The source says that he rowed across the Baltic Sea to get away. Before this goes any further, the factual accuracy of the article needs to be looked into. Schwede 66 21:29, 6 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

As it has been 2 weeks with no reply, I left a note on the nominator's talk page. I wonder if he even got the ping. Yoninah (talk) 21:44, 19 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Yoninah, thanks for the nudge. I think the concerns raised above are legit so I'm happy to withdraw the nomination. Thanks - Paul ❬talk❭ 03:48, 20 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

OK. Withdrawn by nominator. Yoninah (talk) 12:45, 20 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]