Template:Did you know nominations/Battle of Chippenham

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The result was: promoted by Amkgp (talk) 18:21, 5 September 2020 (UTC)

Battle of Chippenham

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... that the Battle of Chippenham was part of a coordinated strike by Guthrum and Ubba to take Wessex? Source: "the Danes co-ordinated a strike against Wessex" - Source then describes attack on Chippenham and attack by Ubba - A History of War in 100 Battles p. 92
- ALT1:... that following defeat at the Battle of Chippenham Alfred the Great reorganized the army of Wessex? Source: "Alfred's near disaster in 878 impressed upon him the need to reorganize the military resourced of his Kingdom" The Medieval Way of War p. 56

Comment: For ALT1, would we need to say how the army was reorganized?

Created by CSJJ104 (talk). Self-nominated at 19:37, 15 August 2020 (UTC).

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:

QPQ: Done.

Overall:

Offline sources for the article and for ALT1 are taken AGF. No QPQ required since you have no DYKs as I write this (though you have another nomination which may finalise soon). I have made minor edits to English language in the article, to clarify meaning, but I have not changed content so that this will not compromise the review. Battle titles have a capital letter, so I have corrected both ALTs. I think that ALT0 is more exciting because the content is scary. ALT1 is acceptable for DYK, but I agree with your comment that it might be more interesting with more detail (if the detail is kept very short - short hooks are more punchy). E.g. you might add "for faster response?" Storye book (talk) 16:01, 21 August 2020 (UTC)