Template:Did you know nominations/French battleship Mirabeau
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The result was: rejected by — Crisco 1492 (talk) 05:15, 27 July 2012 (UTC)
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French battleship Mirabeau[edit]
- ... that the French battleship Mirabeau fired four 305 mm (12 in) shells into Athens during the Allied attempt to ensure Greek acquiescence to Allied operations in Macedonia on 1 December 1916?
Created/expanded by Sturmvogel 66 (talk). Self nom at 03:06, 20 July 2012 (UTC)
It wasn't expanded quite 5x, so I assume it's not eligible. —innotata 19:58, 21 July 2012 (UTC)
- Crap, I did misremember the starting length! I'll see if I can expand it more tomorrow.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 21:46, 21 July 2012 (UTC)
- That expansion won't be in the 5-day period: I think this can't go on the main page. —innotata 21:48, 21 July 2012 (UTC)
- Crap, I did misremember the starting length! I'll see if I can expand it more tomorrow.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 21:46, 21 July 2012 (UTC)
- Not true. Submitters are regularly given the opportunity to expand their article if the review reveals that they didn't quite make 5x expansion. In this case, pre-expansion size was 1201 prose characters according to DYKcheck, which also pegs the current size at 5299 prose characters. As 5x expansion would be 6005, another 706 prose characters are needed to bring this article into size compliance, at which point a full review will need to be done. BlueMoonset (talk) 14:05, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
- I have modified the hook formatting: only the link to the article should be in bold; if you want the separate battleship link, that word cannot be bolded. BlueMoonset (talk) 14:10, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
- OK, sorry. I haven't done this in a long time, and the criteria don't mention this. Apart from the length it's good to go. The hook looks good enough to me, perhaps it should read French battleship Mirabeau like other battleships in DYK. —innotata 15:25, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
- I have modified the hook formatting: only the link to the article should be in bold; if you want the separate battleship link, that word cannot be bolded. BlueMoonset (talk) 14:10, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
Not going to work out. Rcsprinter (tell me stuff) @ 15:58, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
- I've only been able to stretch the article to 5780, with no possibility of further extension, so it fails the 5x criteria.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 16:00, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
