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A fact from Andreas Kieber appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 7 April 2024 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Andreas Kieber died in 1939 as the last surviving veteran of the Liechtenstein military, which was disbanded in 1866?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2024/April. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Andreas Kieber.

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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 Bruxton talk 03:53, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Andreas Kieber in uniform, pictured around 1935.

... that Andreas Kieber was the last surviving member of the Liechtenstein military upon his death in 1939, of which was disbanded in 1866? Source: "Kieber war bei seinem Tod 1939 der einzige noch verbliebene Veteran und ging als «letzter Liechtensteiner Soldat» in die Geschichte ein."

https://historisches-lexikon.li/Kieber,_Andreas_(1844–1939)

"Am 12.2.1868 verfügte Johann II. die Aufhebung des Militärs. Seither unterhält Liechtenstein keine Streitkräfte mehr."

https://historisches-lexikon.li/Militär

- Reviewed: QPQ: Template:Did you know nominations/Keira Walsh
- Comment: Image is optional.

Created by TheBritinator (talk). Self-nominated at 01:39, 23 February 2024 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Andreas Kieber; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.[reply]

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: - Not done
Overall: Nice little hook from a new article. Just waiting on QPQ. Echetus Xe 13:56, 29 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

EchetusXe, I am currently exempt to complete QPQ as I have only two previous DYK nominations, whereas that requirement only becomes necessary after five.
- The QPQ tool shows five ? EchetusXe 17:52, 29 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  - Oh, I see. I was under the impression that it was five successful nominations, my mistake. TheBritinator (talk) 14:30, 1 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@EchetusXe: Is this approved, or are there other concerns with this nomination? Z1720 (talk) 19:26, 14 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

No other issue than the QPQ. Echetus Xe 20:33, 14 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@EchetusXe: A QPQ has been listed above. Z1720 (talk) 20:38, 14 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Okay great,

Echetus Xe 01:53, 15 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@EchetusXe, TheBritinator, and Z1720: One issue I see is that this article is short WP:DYKLEN - only 1305 character. Needs to be at least 1,500. Are we WP:IARing? Bruxton (talk) 16:48, 29 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah we can do. It's a textbook interesting little hook and article and it has a great picture, and a little plaque picture as well. I don't think it needs a superfluous sentence just to meet that one rule.Echetus Xe 17:00, 29 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I agree. I thought the hook was too good to go to waste. I have squeezed as much prose as I can from the sources but frankly I have as much as I can. Would be great to just get this through despite being slightly below mark. TheBritinator (talk) 17:31, 29 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I will ask for a 2nd opinion abou the character shortage from @Theleekycauldron: Bruxton (talk) 19:44, 29 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

ALT0a: ... that Andreas Kieber died in 1939 as the last surviving member of the Liechtenstein military which was disbanded in 1866?

No replies so I will go with the tweaked hook. I have my reservations about advancing this article which has 13$ less characters than the minimum but we can take it up at DYKTALK if anyone else has occasion to ?. Bruxton (talk) 03:52, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]