Template:Did you know nominations/Military geology

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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 10:47, 29 May 2019 (UTC)

Military geology

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America's Military Geology Unit at work

... that military geologists (pictured) were used to find the best landing sites while planning the invasions of Britain, Sicily and France during World War II? Source: ";prepared at a scale of 1:100000 by German military geologists to assist planning for Operation SeaLion,the German invasion of England "[1] "The review of Sicily, in particular, proved to be instrumental in the success of the Allied invasion of Italy in 1943" and "The MGU also provided support to the British military geology units, who by 1944 had a solid command of the geological highlights of Normandy. "[2]
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Reviewed: Calma glaucoides

Moved to mainspace by Dushan Jugum (talk). Self-nominated at 08:38, 4 May 2019 (UTC).

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy compliance:

Adequate sourcing:
Neutral:
Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
Freely licensed: Used in article: Clear at 100px:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: @Dushan Jugum: Nice article, impressively sourced (AGF on those offline), interesting hook (thanks for the references, which of course should disappear when it will be published): what is needed here before giving the ok is only a little copyediting. The article's syntax is good, but sentence construction seems to be a little weird. If you want I can try to do it for you (and you can review my changes), but I am not a native English speaker. Alex2006 (talk) 16:04, 8 May 2019 (UTC)

I know what you mean Alex2006. Please give it a go, sometimes you need someone who has consciously studied English (not a native who just "knows it"). I have reread it and done what I can, but it can be hard to see your own mistakes. (Dushan Jugum (talk) 20:15, 8 May 2019 (UTC)).

@Dushan Jugum:, I did my best!

The above points have been addressed, good to go! Alex2006 (talk) 15:53, 9 May 2019 (UTC)

Thanks Alex2006, “spotting other people errors is easier than spotting your own" should be a Wikipedia catch phrase. (Dushan Jugum (talk) 20:46, 9 May 2019 (UTC)).