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Did you know nomination

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The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. 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 Theleekycauldron (talk05:33, 1 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

  • ... that David Whitaker has been called "the father of the ISBN"? "Sometimes referred to as “the father of the ISBN,” he helped drive the development of Standard Book Numbering (SBN) and then the International Standard Book Number in the 1960s." from: Tagholm, Roger (6 August 2021). "Remembering the UK Publishing Industry's David Whitaker, ISBN Pioneer". Publishing Perspectives. Retrieved 14 October 2021.

Moved to mainspace by Dumelow (talk). Self-nominated at 11:16, 18 October 2021 (UTC).[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
QPQ: Done.

Overall: Looks good! GorillaWarfare (she/her • talk) 01:40, 19 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

To T:DYK/P2

Birth date

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Whitaker's birth date is listed as 6 March 1931 in Who's Who. WP:RSP is cautionary on using Who's Who, so I could understand why one might want to leave it out. AleatoryPonderings (???) (!!!) 05:19, 12 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]