Template:Did you know nominations/William Mason (gunsmith)

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The following discussion is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify it. 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 Orlady (talk) 20:37, 5 December 2011 (UTC)

William Mason (gunsmith)

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  • ... that William Mason was an engineer and inventor who worked for Remington Arms, Colt's Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Company, and Winchester Repeating Arms Company in the 19th century?

Created/expanded by Mike Searson (talk). Self nom at 18:06, 19 November 2011 (UTC)

  • The article's length, date and sourcing are fine. All the refs are offline, so AGF for plagiarism/copyvio. The hook is OK, but might be snappier (see suggestion below) and all parts are cited - AGF for the offline hook ref.
  • ALT1 ... that William Mason was an engineer and inventor who worked for Remington, Colt and Winchester in the 19th century?
I'm assuming that many people will know that they are all arms manufacturers. Mikenorton (talk) 20:57, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
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