Template:Did you know nominations/Military of Mycenaean Greece
- The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was: promoted by 4meter4 (talk) 02:44, 28 November 2015 (UTC)
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Military of Mycenaean Greece
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Chariot depiction in a fresco from Pylos, Greece, c. 1350 BC
... that chariots (pictured) in the armies of Mycenaean Greece where initially used as a fighting vehicle while latter in 13th century BC their role was limited to a battlefield transport?
- Reviewed: Battle of Britain (video game)
Created/expanded by Alexikoua (talk). Self-nominated at 19:06, 2 November 2015 (UTC).
- This is not a full review, just a hook suggestion. I think it would be better to wikilink the whole phrase rather than have an Easter egg piped under "armies. I have also corrected a couple of spelling errors,
- ALT1 ... that in the armies of Mycenaean Greece, chariots were initially used as fighting vehicles but by the 13th century BC their role was probably limited to battlefield transport?
- However, there is also a problem with "limited to a battlefield transport". The source actually says "The shift from box-chariot to rail-chariot marks the transition from a purely mobile fighting vehicle to a battlefield transport..." It does not say it was only a battlefield transport, and the adjective purely in the first part could be interpreted as meaning it was still used as a fighting vehicle but not purely so. Maybe the source does say this later, but not all of it is visible in gbooks, or maybe it is said in another source. If so, this needs to be in the inline cite. SpinningSpark 19:13, 5 November 2015 (UTC)
Full review needed. BlueMoonset (talk) 03:44, 19 November 2015 (UTC)
This article is new enough and long enough. I have added the word "probably" to ALT1 because that is what the article says and I don't have access to the source. The article is neutral, and the image, dating back to 1350 BC, is in the public domain! I was going to pass this nomination but then I discovered copyright issues with significant copy pasting from this source, see the detector result. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 07:31, 21 November 2015 (UTC)
- The above blog copy-pasted entire sections from Mycenaean Greece (core article of the nominated article here), as seen here [[1]] (July 27, version). I've done some massive edits in Mycenaean Greece prior to July 27 [[2]] and recently used some parts for the "Campaign section" in this article. Thus, it's probably a case of partly taking specific parts from one article (Mycenaean Greece) I was editting in previous months and then adding them to a another one (Military of M.G.) to a specific section of it. Although, it's not a case of copywright vio. from off-wiki material, I can easily fix this issue since it concerns a specific section of this article.Alexikoua (talk) 15:42, 27 November 2015 (UTC)
With that explanation I can see that our blogger friend copied the article Mycenaean Greece and kindly dated his blog July 27, 2015. The text concerned was in the Wikipedia article before that date. Since then you have used some of the sentences from Mycenaean Greece in your new article Military of Mycenaean Greece. This means that there is not a copyright issue with your new article and this nomination can go forward. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 19:52, 27 November 2015 (UTC)
