Talk:Popham panel

A fact from Popham panel appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 25 November 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that rather than the usual supplies of ammunition, a bored British commander used a Popham panel to request the actress Mae West?

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The result was: promoted by Theleekycauldron (talk) 08:28, 20 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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A Popham panel in use by the U.S. Army

... that a bored British commander on India's North-West Frontier used a Popham panel to requisition the actress Mae West?
- ALT1: ... that ...?

Reviewed: Norman Colville

Created by Whispyhistory (talk) and Philafrenzy (talk). Nominated by Philafrenzy (talk) at 10:44, 12 November 2021 (UTC).[reply]

Nice work. Article is new enough (created 7 Nov) and long enough (> 3,500 characters of narrative text). It also appears to be compliant with core policies including citations and neutrality. An earwig check (here) did not find any issues. Hook is quite interesting and is short enough. I hate to be technical, but the article itself says it was a bored base commander (not plural soldiers) who used the panel in this manner. Also, the article doesn't say the even occurred on India's North-West Frontier (that's referenced in an image caption but not the body). These are issues that can be cleaned up pretty easily. QPQ satisfied. Photo is interesting and has military public domain designation. Cbl62 (talk) 20:43, 12 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your review. The place is stated earlier in the paragraph as the Waziristan campaign. The source for the whole paragraph is the same. As for the commander or more than one soldier, all the images I have seen suggest that the panels were operated by a crew, presumably under the command of an officer. That was my logic for changing to plural. Philafrenzy (talk) 22:53, 12 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

"India's North-West Frontier" is nowhere mentioned in the body of the article, and this creates a problem under our DYK rules. Further, based on my now having to research the location of "Waziristan", it appears that it is located in Pakistan on the frontier with Afghanistan -- quite some distance from any frontier with India. Cbl62 (talk) 23:04, 12 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I do understand that Pakistan was part of India at the time, but the hook really does need to follow, at least to a large extent, the language used in the article. Here, the language of the hook is quite different from that used in the article (both with respect to the locale and with respect to whether multiple soldiers or a single commander were responsible for the Mae West prank). Can you please just clean this up? Cbl62 (talk) 23:10, 12 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Tweaked the article and hook. Philafrenzy (talk) 09:48, 13 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Phila. Good to go. Cbl62 (talk) 11:36, 13 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Modified ALT0 to T:DYK/P1