Talk:Twynham hut

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Did you know... that the Royal Pioneer Corps could build a Twynham hut in four minutes?

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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 Yoninah (talk) 16:55, 13 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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... that the Royal Pioneer Corps could build a Twynham hut in four minutes? "518 Company chose the erection of a Twynham hut and managed to erect one 18 footx9 footx6 foot in four minutes" from: "The Pioneer". Newsletter of the Royal Pioneer Corps Association: 29. April 2016.
- ALT1:... that the Twynham hut, used as temporary British military accommodation, was likened to a Meccano set? "During the year prior to my arrival, the men of 518 Company, most of whom had moved to Aden from Cyprus, had been engaged in the work of erecting the Meccano-like Twynham huts" from: "A Military Gypsy 1945-1978" (PDF). The Pioneer: 41. October 2010.

Reviewed: to follow

Moved to mainspace by Dumelow (talk). Self-nominated at 17:28, 11 December 2020 (UTC).[reply]

: Hi Dumelow, review follows: Article is new enough, long enough, well written, neutral, sourced, free of copyvio. ALT0 is interesting (enough), ALT1 not so much, both are verified. Waiting on QPQ. Cheers, Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 17:43, 11 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Eddie891, QPQ now completed at Template:Did you know nominations/Kirka Sharif - Dumelow (talk) 07:21, 12 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

approving, both hooks are fine but in my opinion alt zero is better.— Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 12:13, 12 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Photo[edit]

It's nice to have a photo of the predecessor Nissen hut, but a photo of a Twynham hut would be even more helpful. Perhaps someone with knowledge of British military operations can assist. Jnmwiki (talk) 14:00, 22 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Indeed, I looked around for any free images but couldn't find any. There's a few copyrighted images if you google the term but I don't think we can claim fair use on these when there's a reasonably good chance there's still some standing somewhere - Dumelow (talk) 15:37, 22 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

This one carries a "released under Creative Commons" tag in the captions; I'm unsure of the rules around this but that seems like a good start? https://ray-hindle.tripod.com/raf_el_adem/index.album/twynham?i=3 67.8.203.16 (talk) 16:29, 22 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I saw this article on DYK, did a Google images search, found that image, which didn't have that license release at the time, wrote the owner of that site, asking him to add that license. He wrote back, and I uploaded it here. I do that occasionally, but usually most people don't write back, and the ones that do can take months. (Here is a more typical exchange: User talk:GRuban#To whom it may concern.) This time the whole thing took a couple of hours. Fastest license release I ever got! Thank you Colonel Hindle! --GRuban (talk) 17:44, 22 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Excellent work GRuban, many thanks - Dumelow (talk) 17:53, 22 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]