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 18:42, 21 June 2024 (UTC)

William Henry Harrison Seeley

• ... that William Henry Harrison Seeley was the first American recipient of the Victoria Cross?

• Reviewed: [[]]
• Comment: For the source, note that there are two newspaper sources that I couldn't get to as it seems that the access through The Wikipedia Library is down currently.

CommissarDoggo^Talk? 10:50, 22 May 2024 (UTC).

• Comments by Tbhotch

General eligibility:

• New enough:
• Long enough:
• Other problems:

Policy compliance:

• Adequate sourcing:
• Neutral:
• Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:
• Other problems:

Hook eligibility:

• Cited:
• Interesting:
• Other problems:

Overall: An article that was recently promoted to GA. No picture to review. No QPQ is needed, this is your fourth nomination. No copyright issues on text and files. The hook is interesting and sourced. The article is sourced and I assume good faith on the inaccessible sources. (CC) Tbhotch^™ 04:54, 25 May 2024 (UTC)

• Comment Hey man im josh was unsure if the source provided above is reliable, and Isochrone found another source that is very likely reliable. CommissarDoggo, if you agree, could you please replace the source in this nomination and in the article itself? (I have no idea if I'm allowed to add comments here, I hope I don't break anything) Toadspike [Talk] 20:11, 20 June 2024 (UTC)
  • Reply - @Hey man im josh: @Toadspike: I've removed quite a large majority of the uses, either removing the content attributed to it because it isn't massively important or removing the uses that are backed up by other citations. The only two I haven't removed are key to the background (leadup to the campaign in regards to the Choshiu) and to his service history.

For the latter I'm going to be very hard pressed to remove it solely because I don't remember there being any other sources for his service prior to Shimonoseki. The prior I can probably find another source for and will attempt to tonight as I think I already have an idea there. Feel free to either reply here or, as josh (I think? I don't remember who tagged me) did earlier, tag me on Discord if you have any qualms. CommissarDoggo^Talk? 22:24, 20 June 2024 (UTC)