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The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 21:05, 22 July 2015 (UTC)

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USS Colorado (BB-45)[edit]

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The USS Colorado (BB-45) near Honolulu, Hawaii.

  • ... that the USS Colorado (BB-45) received 22 artillery shell hits off the coast of Tinian, but continued bombarding the island for ten more days?

Improved to Good Article status by Tomandjerry211 (talk). Self-nominated at 12:00, 1 July 2015 (UTC).

  • This is an excellent article and meets all the criteria for DYK: became GA in last seven days, long enough, no policy problems, cites source with inline citation (albeit at the end of the paragraph and not at the end of the sentence in which the fact appears), hook is in intro, content is interesting, QPQ, no copyright issues. I recommend saving this for July 24, the 71st anniversary of the date on which the ship was shelled 22 times off Tinian. -- Notecardforfree (talk) 07:16, 3 July 2015 (UTC)
It's worth pointing out that the GA reviewer was not particularly thorough and the article is undergoing a second review. Parsecboy (talk) 11:17, 4 July 2015 (UTC)
  • It looks like the the GA reviewer has decided to keep the GA status on the article for now, but does the second review affect DYK eligibility at all? Also, after checking other DYK reviews, it looks like the inline citation requirement does, in fact, require a citation at the end of the sentence in which the fact is asserted (rather than at the end of the paragraph). If that is the case, then the author should put the citation at the end of the sentence where the hook appears. -- Notecardforfree (talk) 15:40, 4 July 2015 (UTC)
    • The rules do require a citation at the end of the sentence in which the fact is asserted rather than at the end of the paragraph, which I personally think is stupid and unwarranted. I've copied the refs to the end of the sentences. They can be removed if the article is nominated for A class or FAC. Article is new enough, long enough, fully referenced. AGF on offline hooks, both main and ALT1. (Facts which I know to be correct.) Image on commons, appropriately licensed. QPQ done. Good to go. Hawkeye7 (talk) 10:42, 19 July 2015 (UTC)
  • I have pulled this from prep 1 because I couldn't confirm the hook. The source given is Turner page 16 but no such attack is mentioned on page 16 nor any of the subsequent pages so far as I can tell. Gatoclass (talk) 07:29, 22 July 2015 (UTC)
That's fine now, thanks. Gatoclass (talk) 18:10, 22 July 2015 (UTC)
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