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The result was: promoted by — Maile (talk) 23:27, 7 September 2019 (UTC)
... that the POWmassacre in Ciepielów is the most infamous instance of the war crimes of the Wehrmacht committed during the invasion of Poland? Source: http://www.polska1918-89.pl/pdf/zbrodnie-wehrmachtu-na-jencach-polskich-we-wrzesniu-1939-roku,2028.pdf " Najbardziej nagłośniona została anonimowa relacja żołnierza niemieckiego i dołączone do niej zdjęcia dowodzące zbrodni popełnionej 8 września pod Ciepielowem na żołnierzach batalionu zbiorczego 74. Górnośląskiego Pułku Piechoty. W 1950 r. relację tę otrzymała Polska Misja Wojskowa w Monachium; wielokrotnie powielano ją w różnego rodzaju publikacjach i prasie. Właśnie ten mord, stale przypominany w peerelu z okazji kolejnych rocznic wybuchu wojny, jest dziś najpowszechniej kojarzonym obrazem zbrodni wojennej z września 1939 r."
Overall: Google translate is giving me: "The most publicized was the anonymous report of a German soldier and photos attached to it, proving the crime committed on September 8 at Ciepielów on soldiers of the collective battalion of the 74th Upper Silesian Infantry Regiment. In 1950 this relation was received by the Polish Military Mission in Munich; it has been repeatedly reproduced in various publications and press. This murder, constantly remembered in the communist parade on the occasion of the next anniversary of the outbreak of war, is today the most commonly associated picture of the war crime of September 1939" Hawkeye7(discuss) 20:29, 20 June 2019 (UTC)
Hi, I came by to promote this, but unless we IAR, this does not meet the 5x expansion requirement. Before expansion began, the character count was 1500. As of the latest edit, it is 4200. It does not count to remove a chunk of text and then start counting the 5x expansion from there. Yoninah (talk) 11:45, 5 September 2019 (UTC)
I disagree, I think that removal of unreferenced / OR / irrelevant / otherwise problematic content should count. This motivates people to rewrite such articles to make them DYK eligible. Anyway, where do we draw the line? If some vandal inserts a chunk of gibberish to an article, you could argue that it still represents the 'character count' for 5x expansion...? I think we should follow the spirit, not the letter, of the rules. Wasn't this discussed at WT:DYK or something? Ping User:BlueMoonset. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 12:02, 5 September 2019 (UTC)
Piotrus, WP:DYKSG#A4 is quite clear: Fivefold expansion is calculated from the previously existing article, no matter how bad it was (copyvios are an exception), no matter whether you kept any of it and no matter if it were up for deletion. As it goes on to say This may be a bad surprise, it's something that has come up many times in the past, with articles being rejected when the full 5x expansion was not done; it's one of the arguments that was made for adding new GAs to the mix, so that articles get another opportunity if it becomes prohibitive to make a 5x expansion. According to DYKcheck, the article was at 1450 prose characters prior to the June 13 edits, and is 4203 prose characters now, which means it needs another 3047 to reach the 5x level of 7250 prose characters. As Yoninah says, unless there's agreement to IAR—which you'd need to get at WT:DYK (and I am pessimistic about your chances there)—the additional material will need to be added if you wish this to run. BlueMoonset (talk) 15:52, 5 September 2019 (UTC)
Great job on the last-minute expansion, Piotrus! My Javascript counter has the new character count at 7451 char, just 49 characters shy of 5x expansion, which I'm certainly willing to overlook. Restoring tick per Hawkeye7's review. Yoninah (talk) 17:52, 7 September 2019 (UTC)
Google translate is giving me: "The most publicized was the anonymous report of a German soldier and photos attached to it, proving the crime committed on September 8 at Ciepielów on soldiers of the collective battalion of the 74th Upper Silesian Infantry Regiment. In 1950 this relation was received by the Polish Military Mission in Munich; it has been repeatedly reproduced in various publications and press. This murder, constantly remembered in the communist parade on the occasion of the next anniversary of the outbreak of war, is today the most commonly associated picture of the war crime of September 1939" Hawkeye7 (discuss) 20:29, 20 June 2019 (UTC)
Hi, I came by to promote this, but unless we IAR, this does not meet the 5x expansion requirement. Before expansion began, the character count was 1500. As of the latest edit, it is 4200. It does not count to remove a chunk of text and then start counting the 5x expansion from there. Yoninah (talk) 11:45, 5 September 2019 (UTC)
