Template:Did you know nominations/Nellie's Tree

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The result was: promoted by L293D (☎ • ✎) 14:55, 21 December 2018 (UTC)

Nellie's Tree[edit]

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Nellie's Tree

... that in around 1920 a Yorkshire miner grafted three beech trees together to form a letter "N" (pictured) to impress his girlfriend Nellie? "He grafted one sapling between the other two to form the letter N to woo his sweetheart" (BBC News) "This would be about 1920" Barwick-in-Elmet Historical Society

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Chungará Lake

Moved to mainspace by Dumelow (talk). Self-nominated at 21:12, 15 November 2018 (UTC).

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:

Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
Freely licensed: Used in article: Clear at 100px:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: valereee (talk) 14:25, 17 November 2018 (UTC) Dumelow ping me with questions! 14:58, 17 November 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for the review valereee. I have reworded the problematic sentence and amended the hook to "around a hundred years ago" which may sound better? - Dumelow (talk) 14:59, 17 November 2018 (UTC)

Marking this a yes, but I'm an inexperienced reviewer, someone else might want to take a look valereee (talk) 15:11, 17 November 2018 (UTC)