A fact from Sunday Lecture Society appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 9 August 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
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I was looking at the founder Sir William Domville who is very likely IMO Captain Sir William Domville of the Royal Navy ref here. Could this be right? This William Domville died a Rear Admiral Victuallers (talk) 12:56, 9 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Victuallers Nice find! That must be him, he’s the only Sir William that lived in this timeframe! I wonder if it might be worthwhile creating an article about him? I think a bit of research would find he was important enough for an article. - Aussie Article Writer (talk) 19:24, 9 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
I should note it was Alansplodge who found the following:
"This Society was formed in 1869 by William Henry Domville, a London solicitor in London. Its objective was to present lectures on the arts, history, literature and science on Sunday, a day when wholesome recreation was scarce... the Society's usual venue." source
@Alansplodge and Victuallers: I screwed up, turns out the one I’m referring to should have been W. H. Domville, who was second son of St. William Domville, 2nd baronet. I believe this was a seperate person. Tremendously sorry! I have amended the article. - Aussie Article Writer (talk) 20:01, 9 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
I think it's unlikely that our Domville is the same as the admiral. I did a quite thorough Google search and found that he practiced at Lincoln's Inn (somewhat confused by a much earlier William Domville), perhaps was a member of the Royal Astronomical Society, was vice-president of the Sunday Society (a pressure group for the opening of museums on Sunday) and wrote or promoted a tract proposing changes to church liturgy to reflect scientific advances. All this from ephemeral snippets which I decided would not make a decent article. I'm afraid I didn't keep any of the links, but none of them were very concrete. Alansplodge (talk) 20:10, 9 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was: promoted by The C of E (talk) 06:44, 5 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
ALT1:... that after the Lord's Day Observance Society forced the National Sunday League to stop their Sunday lectures, they eventually regrouped to form the Sunday Lecture Society? Pope, Norris (1979). Dickens and Charity. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 91. ISBN 1349034363. OCLC 1033650826
Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: - Offline/paywalled citation accepted in good faith
Interesting:
QPQ: Done.
Overall: Article is long enough, was new enough at time of creation, and looks well sourced. I'm unable to get access to the full versions of the sources so I'm assuming good faith. Hooks are reasonably interesting but ALT0 is a bit hard to follow so I'm approving ALT1. qpq has been done and Earwig is not picking up any copyvio. BuySomeApples (talk)
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Article is long enough, was new enough at time of creation, and looks well sourced. I'm unable to get access to the full versions of the sources so I'm assuming good faith. Hooks are reasonably interesting but ALT0 is a bit hard to follow so I'm approving ALT1. qpq has been done and Earwig is not picking up any copyvio. BuySomeApples (talk)