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In popular culture
"In an episode of 'Allo 'Allo! which is set in a P.O.W. camp for captured British airmen, one of the characters begins to sing the lyric "Hitler has only got one..." before the German officer interrogating the troops orders him to be silent." is factually inaccurate. The show 'Allo 'Allo! is not set in a P.O.W. camp, but rather a WWII era French restaurant run by a secret member of the resistance. The description of the show and contextual reference to a "German officer interrogating the troops" may actually be from the American television show "Hogan's Heroes". — Preceding
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17:38, 24 February 2021 (UTC)reply
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Wham2001 (
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18:02, 24 February 2021 (UTC)reply
EEng (and/or anyone else watching this page), would you have time/interest in copyediting this recently expanded article, and maybe taking a crack at the lead? (You're so much better at it than I am.) Bonus points if you can think of some hooks... Thanks!
Levivich17:26, 19 August 2021 (UTC)reply
I'm under the gun for a few weeks, but there's sure plenty to work from hook-wise. DYK ... that "Hitler Has Only Got One Ball" offered an "itemized taxonomy of malformed German genitalia" and "scattered satiric buckshot across the whole Nazi high command"?EEng19:51, 19 August 2021 (UTC)reply
The David Lean story could be a great hook, but looks like the only path to DYK is GA, though that shouldn't be too hard.
EEng16:13, 25 August 2021 (UTC)reply
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EEng: I wasn't even paying attention to the 7-day-post-expantion rule... I think I might want to nom this to be the TFA for Feb 24, 2022, but I'm not sure if that's a reasonable expectation or not... but either way, GA is either a necessary step or a relatively easy one.
Levivich16:18, 25 August 2021 (UTC)reply
(How does Feb 24 come into it?) Surely by now you know what I think about the FA process. I'd stick with GA.
EEng16:29, 25 August 2021 (UTC)reply
Ah, Wikipedia at its best. The lines "Hitler has only got one ball, The other is in the Albert Hall" are encyclopaedically and accurately described as "focused on local landmarks". —
Amakuru (
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15:08, 26 August 2021 (UTC)reply
Pictures
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EEng: I was thinking I can make shorter crops of the headshots that will work better for this formatting, but I'll do it after the text is further along, so we know how much vertical space we have to work with in each section. I think we should have a picture of Albert Hall, though, so the reader understands what it is (a large stately building) without having to click on the link (and also so we have a picture of something that's not a Nazi).
Levivich17:30, 27 August 2021 (UTC)reply
Right. It always makes sense to defer worries about img placement until the text is well developed, since image-crowding is typically the biggest layout headache.
EEng17:53, 27 August 2021 (UTC)reply