Talk:Carl H. Jark

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Did you know... that when US Army lieutenant general Carl H. Jark retired in 1964, Congressman Henry B. González of Texas honored him by reading Jark's entire career history into the Congressional Record?

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Did you know nomination[edit]

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 Theleekycauldron (talk) 09:22, 21 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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... that when US Army Lt. General Carl H. Jark retired in 1964, Congressman Henry B. González of Texas honored him by reading Jark's entire career history into the Congressional Record? Source: Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the ... Congress. U.S. Government Printing Office. 1964. p. 17315. Retrieved 14 February 2022.
Reviewed: B. Max Mehl

Created by Maile66 (talk). Self-nominated at 01:28, 16 February 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.

Overall: @Maile66: great work on this article, everything seems to check out! Prose of appropriate length, 0.0% copyright violation. I wish there was more documentation for the claimed world record throw at the Drake Relays fact, because that aspect is really interesting. Regardless, great work! Ornithoptera (talk) 08:52, 19 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, and since you asked, I just added the April 27, 1929 New Yotk Times source that very clearly proclaims it a world's record.— Maile (talk) 12:29, 19 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

That's awesome! I was totally curious and it wasn't a prerequisite for my approval of the DYK but I definitely appreciate the gesture and the additional source on such an interesting man! Ornithoptera (talk) 20:51, 19 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

To T:DYK/P3

Comments[edit]

I fixed numerous errors in this article .... the original was terrible, and flat out screwed up information from the cited sources.

For example - the General was NOT the "commandant" of Fort Sam Houston. There are no "commandants" of US Army Posts. Jark was the "Commanding General of IV Corps and Fort Sam Houston". There are legal and command differences between the "commanding general" and a "commandant". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:8805:1701:6B00:F0C5:D7A5:15B9:EA25 (talk) 03:32, 2 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]