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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 05:59, 2 January 2017 (UTC)

Lyngiades massacre[edit]

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... that German president Joachim Gauck became his country's first representative to visit the site of the Lyngiades massacre in Greece, and express his apologies, 71 years after the Wehrmacht atrocities?(inline quote appears in reference no. 5)

Reviewed: History of Korean animation

Created by Alexikoua (talk). Self-nominated at 14:57, 8 December 2016 (UTC).

Good hook, new article, meets criteria. Long enough, and looking forward to it lengthening. Morganfitzp (talk) 02:08, 11 December 2016 (UTC)
While the inline reference as quoted strictly speaking says that he was the first representative to apologize, I read this also indicating that he was the first to go there, anyway anything else would have been political suicide. Agathoclea (talk) 11:34, 31 December 2016 (UTC)
I looked at the article and hook, as requested on my talk. The German source by Agathoclea supports it and might be used also. It has a long quote from the Gauck speech. From the article: "Versöhnungsbesuch" might be translated as "visit of reconciliation", "erster Repräsentant Deutschlands" means "first representative of Germany", "Besatzungsverbrechen" are crimes of the occupators. The hook is supported, but I suggest to shorten it:

ALT1: ... that 71 years after the Lyngiades massacre in Greece, President Joachim Gauck became Germany's first representative to visit the site and express his apologies for the Wehrmacht atrocities? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:13, 31 December 2016 (UTC)