Template:Did you know nominations/Abdullah Atfeh

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The result was: promoted by PumpkinSky talk 02:47, 9 January 2012 (UTC)

Abdullah Atfeh

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... that Abdullah Atfeh was the first chief of staff of the Syrian Army following the country's independence?

Created/expanded by Zozo2kx (talk). Self nom at 12:16, 6 January 2012 (UTC)

Article is new enough and long enough, and adequately referenced per DYK standards. I found no copyvios in the limited source material that I was able to access on line via Google Books. There are a couple of concerns that I believe can be easily addressed before AGF approval. (1) The article implies but does not state that Atfeh was the first chief of staff. I think the article should state that explicitly, assuming that statement is supported by the source. (2) There is a reference at the end of the paragraph, which presumably applies to the sentence about the hook fact, but there should be an in-line citation for the sentence containing the hook fact explicitly. Rlendog (talk) 16:34, 6 January 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for the review. The hook fact is explicitly mentioned in the lead, and an in-line citation is presented there. Shouldn't that suffice? If not, I could easily mention it in the article body. Yazan (talk) 20:45, 6 January 2012 (UTC)

That suffices. I was looking for the fact in the body of the article and missed that it was cited in the lead. Good to go. Rlendog (talk) 21:22, 6 January 2012 (UTC)