Template:Did you know nominations/Fred Verity

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The result was: promoted by Cielquiparle talk 04:25, 8 April 2025 (UTC)

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• ... that the ironmonger and inventor Fred Verity and his brother won first prize for machinery at Long Sutton Agricultural Show?

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• Source: Verity, Fred (1897). Fred Verity & Son, builders' catalogue (5 ed.). Leeds: Whitehead & Miller Ltd. See [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Fred_Verity_hardcover_catalogue Wikimedia Commons: Category:Fred Verity] for pictures of the medals.}}
• ALT1: ... that the ironmonger and inventor Fred Verity and his brother won the "highest prize for building appliances" at the International Inventions Exhibition? Source: Verity, Fred (1897). Fred Verity & Son, builders' catalogue (5 ed.). Leeds: Whitehead & Miller Ltd. See [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Fred_Verity_hardcover_catalogue Wikimedia Commons: Category:Fred Verity] for pictures of the medals.
• ALT2: ... that Fred Verity and colleagues invented an automatic pivot or bearing for looking glasses? Source: {{cite news |title=English patents |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000282/18841213/015/0006 |access-date=26 February 2025 |work=Burnley Express |agency=|via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription |date=13 December 1884 |page=6 col.4}}: "English Patents ... Edwin Verity and Joshua Marland Verity and Benjamin Banks, all of Leeds, for an automatic pivot or bearing, for looking glasses and other similarly pivoted articles; dated 17th July 1884".
• Reviewed: Found manuscript
• Comment: Moved to mainspace on 22 March 2025

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Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 112 past nominations.}}

Storye book (talk) 11:02, 26 March 2025 (UTC).

• 16px Date, size, QPQ, hook, spotchecks, all GTG. The three hooks above are small variations on the same theme and are acceptable. There might be a better hook, however - I'll post a message to the author's talk page, and we may come back here with more suggestions (or not). --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 03:58, 3 April 2025 (UTC)

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