Talk:Seamen's and Soldiers' False Characters Act 1906

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A fact from Seamen's and Soldiers' False Characters Act 1906 appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 7 January 2023 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that despite being in force for more than 100 years, no known prosecutions were made under the Seamen's and Soldiers' False Characters Act 1906?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2023/January. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Seamen's and Soldiers' False Characters Act 1906.

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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 Bruxton (talk) 03:34, 28 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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... that despite being in force for more than 100 years no known prosecutions were made under the Seamen's and Soldiers' False Characters Act 1906? Source: "As with section 1, the Home Office have confirmed that there is no record of any prosecutions being brought under section 2" from: The Law Commission and The Scottish Law Commission (January 2008). "Statute Law Repeals: Eighteenth Report" (PDF). p. 40. Retrieved 24 December 2022.
- ALT1: ... that the Seamen's and Soldiers' False Characters Act 1906 has often been cited in lists of "strange UK laws"? Source: I've given four examples in the article but if you search the name of the act in Google News you'll get dozens of hits on similar lists
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Zabuton

Created by Dumelow (talk). Self-nominated at 11:28, 26 December 2022 (UTC).[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

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Article is new and long enough, and no copyvio concerns. Hook fact is present and cited, and while both are interesting I much prefer ALT0. QPQ is done and I don't have any concerns, good to go. PCN02WPS (talk | contribs) 05:14, 27 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Dumelow, PCN02WPS, and Bruxton:, I have moved this nomination from Prep 6 to Prep 7 to allow Template:Did you know nominations/9 January 1917 German Crown Council meeting to appear on 9 January. TSventon (talk) 13:16, 1 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]