Template:Did you know nominations/Seventh German Inner Africa Research Expedition

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The result was: promoted by 97198 (talk) 09:18, 23 September 2019 (UTC)

Seventh German Inner Africa Research Expedition

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... that the Seventh German Inner Africa Research Expedition served as cover for a secret First World War espionage mission? Da Riva, Rocío; Biocca, Dario (5 August 2016). "Leo Frobenius' Secret Mission in Arabia and Eritrea (1914–1915)". Arabian Humanities. Revue internationale d'archéologie et de sciences sociales sur la péninsule Arabique/International Journal of Archaeology and Social Sciences in the Arabian Peninsula (in French) (6). doi:10.4000/cy.3099. ISSN 1248-0568. Retrieved 25 February 2019.
- ALT1:... that the members of the Seventh German Inner Africa Research Expedition hid from a French military boarding party by hiding in a boat's sanitary tank? Fisk, Robert (7 November 2009). "The German Lawrence of Arabia had much to live up". The Independent. Retrieved 6 July 2019.

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Moved to mainspace by Dumelow (talk). Self-nominated at 17:21, 6 September 2019 (UTC).

I haven't taken a thorough look at the article yet, but the main source (Da Riva) calls the Frobenius expedition of 1914–15 the "Fourth German Inner African Research Expedition", while our article calls it the seventh. Could you please explain the discrepancy? -Zanhe (talk) 20:12, 7 September 2019 (UTC)

Hi Zanhe, this is addressed in the article (towards the end of the "Strategic aims" section). Da Riva calls it the fourth but the Frobenius Institute, who hold all of the records relating to the expeditions, list it as the seventh, I've listed all the expeditions in the German Inner Africa Research Expeditions article - Dumelow (talk) 13:06, 8 September 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for the explanation. Article is new enough, long enough, neutral, and well referenced. Both hooks are interesting and verified with supplied sources. There is some close paraphrasing with the Da Riva source, but it's not an issue as that source has a creative commons license. QPQ is done. Good to go. -Zanhe (talk) 06:08, 16 September 2019 (UTC)