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... that Arthur Fulton, his father and his son all won the Sovereign's Prize for rifle shooting? There should be a comma before 'and'. '''[[User:CanonNi]]''' (talk • contribs) 07:45, 13 June 2024 (UTC)

do we enforce the oxford comma at DYK? not sure that's ever been a house style... theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 10:53, 13 June 2024 (UTC)

There's no house style respecting the Oxford comma on Wikipedia, although it is commonly used. In this context, "his son" refers to Arthur Fulton's son. Perhaps the absence of the comma makes it easier to parse. — RAVENPVFF · talk · 12:13, 13 June 2024 (UTC)

Never mind the punctuation, the hook fact doesn't appear clearly in the article and requires considerable effort to piece together. It was approved as AGF and seems inferior to the primary hook:

• ... that Arthur Fulton became the first person to win the Sovereign's Prize for rifle shooting three times?

I reckon we can do even better:

• ALT2 ... that Arthur Fulton was a deadly sniper in the First World War and described as "the most famous rifle shot the world has ever known".

Andrew🐉(talk) 12:21, 13 June 2024 (UTC)

Not sure why it was an AGF verification since Oxford Biographies is available for free to all of us via WP:TWL, but FWIW I checked and the hook fact is verified by the Oxford Biographies article (TWL link). Levivich (talk) 16:14, 13 June 2024 (UTC)

I like ALT2! ꧁Zanahary꧂ 18:06, 13 June 2024 (UTC)

I’m not sure that I like the word "deadly" in that hook. It seems sensationalist and superfluous; after all, it is a sniper's job to kill. Other than that, ALT2 is good. Schwede66 18:43, 13 June 2024 (UTC)

True ꧁Zanahary꧂ 20:20, 13 June 2024 (UTC)

 Erledigt ALT2 minus "deadly" it is. Heads up to UndercoverClassicist, Johnbod, and SL93 as those users who are listed on the nomination page. Schwede66 23:07, 13 June 2024 (UTC)

Next-but-one DYK

• "... that although it was never built, Lynn Conway notes that IBM's ASC-1 would have been the premier supercomputer of the era?" _ I think it should read "ACS-1", the article itself appears confused about ACS vs ASC. I have asked on the article talk page. DuncanHill (talk) 19:03, 13 June 2024 (UTC)

It is ACS-1. I fixed the article. The hook will need to have it changed to ACS-1. SL93 (talk) 20:42, 13 June 2024 (UTC)

 Fixed On a related note, I have just posted Lynn Conway's article to recent deaths on the main page. Schwede66 22:59, 13 June 2024 (UTC)

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