Template:Did you know nominations/1st Missouri Infantry (Confederate)

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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 05:15, 19 June 2020 (UTC)

1st Missouri Infantry (Confederate)

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~~... that the 1st Missouri Infantry Regiment (Confederate) was the first unit from Missouri to officially enter the Confederate States Army?~~ Source 1 in the text (McGhee 2008)

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Mexican National Cruiserweight Championship
Comment: If possible, can this run on June 22? Date of the regiment's original muster was June 22, 1861.

Improved to Good Article status by Hog Farm (talk). Self-nominated at 02:11, 24 May 2020 (UTC).

New GA, and everything checks out. QPQ done. I agree that this should be moved to the Special Occasions holding area. Moonraker (talk) 03:16, 24 May 2020 (UTC)

Hi, I formatted this template after the page move. The hook has a lot of repetitive wording ("Missouri"..."Missouri"..."Confederate"..."Confederate"). Yoninah (talk) 23:57, 16 June 2020 (UTC)

Not sure how to fix this. The most unique thing about the unit was that it was the first Confederate unit from Missouri, so they called it the First Missouri Confederate (most duh name ever). Aside from piped linking out (Confederate), I'm not sure how to solve this. Hog Farm (talk) 00:29, 17 June 2020 (UTC)

@Hog Farm: well, I think the first thing to do is pipe the link. But you have a lot of information to add to the hook. You could write for example:
ALT0a: ... that more than 1,000 men fought in the 1st Missouri Infantry Regiment, the first unit from the state to officially enter the Confederate States Army?
Or go with another fact. Yoninah (talk) 10:00, 17 June 2020 (UTC)

@Yoninah: I like alt0a. Since this is running on a special occasion, I'd prefer to have a hook related to the muster, since that's relevant to the date. Hog Farm (talk) 13:27, 17 June 2020 (UTC)

Thanks. Moonraker, could you review ALT0a please? Yoninah (talk) 13:46, 17 June 2020 (UTC)

New GA, ALT0a is factually okay. Wasn’t it commonplace for a Civil War regiment to have more than a thousand men? If it were my call, I should just pipe out the first Confederate in the main hook. But your call, Yoninah. Moonraker (talk) 18:59, 17 June 2020 (UTC)

1,000 men was the standard size for a regiment in the ACW, although that rarely happened, especially late in the war. Hog Farm (talk) 19:17, 17 June 2020 (UTC)

Thanks, Moonraker. Hog Farm likes ALT0a, so we'll go with that. Yoninah (talk) 19:19, 17 June 2020 (UTC)