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A fact from David Nott appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 15 June 2016 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that David Nott (pictured) is often styled the "Indiana Jones of surgery"?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2016/June. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/David Nott.

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Page views[edit]

What happened to the PageViews graph? It was quite informative. Martinevans123 (talk) 12:44, 11 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

It was removed in this edit with a claim of "no consensus". As Martinevans123 and myself both favour having this here, showing the remarkably high readership for the page lately, I shall restore it. For more general discussion of the feature, please see Template talk:PageViews graph. Andrew D. (talk) 13:02, 11 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

It looks like the sort of tool that might be a useful addition (maybe in a drop-down) for all articles. Martinevans123 (talk) 13:17, 11 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

For any article on the English wiki, you can get to something similar by clicking on the "View history" tab, and then finding the line about 20% down the page (depending one your screen shape, I guess) called "external tools" There is then a line of things you can click. The last one is called "Page view statistics". Click it and it does what it says. It can be interesting (well, slightly...) Success Charles01 (talk) 13:35, 11 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Self-evidently, if someone finds it useful to have an equivalent graph replicated here, I'm all in favour. It's naturally reassuring to find that there are others who can listen to the sweet tones of Kirsty Young and her admirable guests (well, this one anyhow) without falling instantly asleep. Time for more coffee, tho'. Charles01 (talk) 13:35, 11 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Personally, I'm totally sold. Martinevans123 (talk) 13:43, 11 June 2016 (UTC) [reply]

This is now more widely available and used as {{annual readership}}. I have added it to the headers above for comparison. Andrew🐉(talk) 22:17, 7 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Pilot[edit]

I'm a bit confused as to when Nott was a pilot "for about ten years", as he says. Listening to him on Desert Island Discs, which I've used as the source for this, he seems to have started being a surgeon at about the age of 24 (presumably immediately after leaving medical school). So his job as a pilot must have been later? Martinevans123 (talk) 10:11, 11 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I was wondering what had caused the sudden influx of editors yesterday and figured it must have been the repeat of Desert Island Discs yesterday. I'd worked from print sources to start the article but listened to the broadcast myself this morning to check what you were adding. I was also wondering myself how he managed to fit in 10 years of being a commercial pilot. There was no mention of this in the newspaper sources but his statement seemed quite clear. Andrew D. (talk) 10:48, 11 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for checking. It's rather puzzling. Martinevans123 (talk) 10:52, 11 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

There's more clues at his BUPA profile, including a picture of him with an aircraft, when he looks quite young. This says, "David Nott gained his medical degree at Manchester University. He later attended the Royal College of Surgeons in London to become a Consultant Surgeon in 1992." As he graduated in 1981, I think the 10 years as a pilot must have been around 1981-1991. Note that his voluntary work as a surgeon started in the 1990s too. Andrew D. (talk) 11:05, 11 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Strewth! How very dashing. Martinevans123 (talk) 11:14, 11 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Order of St John[edit]

No citation has been giving for Nott's OStJ - can somebody provide one please, or else this suffix shouldn't be there. OGBC1992 (talk) 11:21, 26 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Merger proposal[edit]

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. A summary of the conclusions reached follows.

The result of this discussion was Merge per WP:SILENCE as part of WP:MERGECLOSE. No opposition raised in over a month. Dank Jae 22:31, 12 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I propose merging David Nott Foundation into David Nott here, specifically the David Nott#David Nott Foundation section.

The foundation article is like 90% copied, bar the last and lead sentence, from this article's section on the topic, the original source of text, in this edit by Titus Gold on 25 April 2022.

Most secondary sources in the foundation article, such as, [1][2][3][4] have Nott himself as the main topic rather than his foundation, as well as these other sources which appear when searching for the foundation. [5][6] The only directly relevant sources are either WP:PRIMARY from the foundation itself, or with these [7][8] from the Hippocratic Post, which states it is a blogging site and these specific blog writers are Elly Nott and the David Nott Foundation, so not independent. So most of its sources do not meet WP:SIRS or WP:GNG.

The only exception is this source found supporting the foundation's efforts in Ukraine, but it is the only news one not directly about Nott. Dank Jae 17:28, 9 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.