Talk:Laurence J. Lesh

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Lesh in flight at Morris Park Aerodrome

• ... that Lawrence Lesh (pictured in flight) worked on the aerodynamics of objects ranging from horse-drawn gliders to throwing knives?

• Source: "he continued to experiment with horse-drawn biplane gliders at Dominion Park" / "applying his aerodynamic knowledge to the design of throwing knives"

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Marie Goldsmith
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Jake Bergey

(unclear if the quick-fail counts as a QPQ these days, so here's another)

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Bernard de Bluet d'Arbères

Created by RoySmith (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 47 past nominations.

RoySmith (talk) 00:19, 8 November 2025 (UTC).[reply]

[[File:|140px|Lesh with rotorsail model ]]

Lesh with rotorsail model

Adding an alt which I think is better than the original. Either image could be used with either hook. RoySmith (talk) 18:50, 8 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• ALT1: ... that Lawrence Lesh (pictured) worked on the aerodynamics of horse-drawn gliders, sailboats, and throwing knives?

• Source: "he continued to experiment with horse-drawn biplane gliders at Dominion Park" / "applying his aerodynamic knowledge to the design of throwing knives" / "Lesh experimented with rigid rotating sails for boats in a wind tunnel and in the model boat basin at Jackson Park in Chicago"

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
Freely licensed: Used in article: Clear at 100px:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Approve either ALT0 or ALT1- I find ALT0 slightly punchier, but I like the rhythm of 3 in the list for ALT1 - dealer's choice really. Article is new enough (created 11/7), long enough (2k B), no copyvio - EW 3.8% - but even that little fragment is completely unrelated / basically a false positive. I think the picture of him in flight is stronger - even at small size it has a striking silhouette, whereas the other is a pretty standard old photo portrait (edit: also non-free?). One small note- is it spelled Laurence or Lawrence? I would recommend consistency between article name + text of hook. Zzz plant (talk) 19:48, 8 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Ooops. I checked the sources, it should be Laurence, thanks for catching that. There's a few "Larry"s in the sources, but no Lawrence. And, you're right about the non-free image. So let's go with a hybrid and go with the glider photo: RoySmith (talk) 20:06, 8 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• ALT2: ... that Laurence Lesh (pictured in flight) worked on the aerodynamics of horse-drawn gliders, sailboats, and throwing knives?

• Nice, imo that's the best of both worlds! Approved ALT2 w/ in-flight photo (although ALT0/1 also both check out source-wise, and are still perfectly valid options). Great job on this article, super interesting bio! Zzz plant (talk) 20:25, 8 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]