Talk:Harold Clunn

A fact from Harold Clunn appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 23 August 2019 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that British author Harold Clunn saw the destruction done by the Blitz as a blessing in disguise?

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I made a note that the administration of his estate Eleanor Mabel Gribble was his sister. Harold and Eleanor were the children of Philip Edward Clunn and Emily Ebbs who married in 1873. A quick look at https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/indexes_search.asp show the following related births:

Eleanor Mabel Clunn registered in the Ormskirk Registration District in Q2 of 1877 mother's maiden surname "Ebbs"
Harold Philip Clunn registered in the Ormskirk Registration District in Q2 of 1879 mother's maiden surname "Ebbs"
Ethel Mary Clunn registered in the Greenwich Registration District in Q4 of 1883 mother's maiden surname "Ebbs"

A search of https://www.freebmd.org.uk/search shows Eleanor married Bernard Gribble in the Kensington Registration District in 1902. MilborneOne (talk) 17:00, 25 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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 Yoninah (talk) 20:46, 20 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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... that British author Harold Clunn saw the destruction done by the London Blitz during the Second World War as a blessing?
- ALT1:... that British author Harold Clunn saw the London Blitz as a blessing in disguise?

Reviewed: Garçon Wines

Created by Philafrenzy (talk) and MilborneOne (talk) and Whispyhistory (talk). Nominated by Philafrenzy (talk) at 21:14, 25 July 2019 (UTC).[reply]

Good work as usual. New, long enough, cited, neutral, no copyvio. The hook is great, but I'd remove "during the Second World War" because readers know when the Blitz happened. If you wanted to make it even leaner and hookier, remove "the destruction done by" as well. The one other issue is that the editor who completed the QPQ wasn't actually the nominator, but I'll IAR. – Teratix ₵ 07:06, 28 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Teratix: Thanks, shorter ALT added and made it blessing in disguise as that is now cited. Philafrenzy (talk) 07:29, 14 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]