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A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on July 26, 2015. The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that it was Benjamin Loxley's house key that was used by Benjamin Franklin for his kite experiment to attract lightning? | |||||||||||||
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Reviewer: Kevin1776 (talk · contribs) 20:55, 10 March 2021 (UTC)
I am willing to review this article and help get it to Good Article status. A quick perusal suggests there may be some factual issues regarding Loxley's military service. The infobox says: 1750–1755 (British Army), 1775–1780 (Continental Army), but the text of the article provides no evidence that Loxley was a member of either of those organizations. Serving with Braddock in 1755 didn't make one a soldier of the British Army; serving in state or militia units during the American Revolution didn't make you a member of the Continental Army. I'm guessing Loxley belonged to the militia in both cases, rather than the Army. Clarification needed. Kevin1776 (talk) 20:55, 10 March 2021 (UTC)
This article is part of Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/20210315 and the Good article (GA) drive to reassess and potentially delist over 200 GAs that might contain copyright and other problems. An AN discussion closed with consensus to delist this group of articles en masse, unless a reviewer opens an independent review and can vouch for/verify content of all sources. Please review Wikipedia:Good article reassessment/February 2023 for further information about the GA status of this article, the timeline and process for delisting, and suggestions for improvements. Questions or comments can be made at the project talk page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 09:36, 9 February 2023 (UTC)
This article has been revised as part of a large-scale clean-up project of multiple article copyright infringement. (See the investigation subpage) Earlier text must not be restored, unless it can be verified to be free of infringement. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material; such additions must be deleted. Contributors may use sources as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences or phrases. Accordingly, the material may be rewritten, but only if it does not infringe on the copyright of the original or plagiarize from that source. Please see our guideline on non-free text for how to properly implement limited quotations of copyrighted text. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 18:49, 27 February 2023 (UTC) See also WP:DCGAR.
Note also that the DYK Hook was based on the account of his great grandson, which is not a reliable source for such a claim. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 18:49, 27 February 2023 (UTC)