Template:Did you know nominations/Zaian War

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The result was: promoted by Miyagawa (talk) 21:10, 24 February 2012 (UTC)

Zaian War

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... that French general Hubert Lyautey (pictured) referred to his defences in the Zaian War as a hollowed-out lobster?

Comment: Moved to mainspace 17-2-12 from userspace - Dumelow (talk) 08:20, 17 February 2012 (UTC)

Created/expanded by Dumelow (talk). Self nom at 08:20, 17 February 2012 (UTC)

Reviewed Template:Did you know nominations/Statue of Nelson Mandela, Parliament Square - Dumelow (talk) 08:44, 17 February 2012 (UTC)

- I'm sorry but this clearly fails the age criterion. I mean, the age of this article is in years. The criteria is generally 5 days, and this article certainly doesn't meet that criterion. Since I'm a first-time reviewer, I request assistance in this, but according to me this one is a quick-fail (

). ~*~Ankit Bhatt~*~ 14:01, 19 February 2012 (UTC)

The current version was moved from userspace on the 17th, but there was already a preexisting version, and so we have to compare it as an expansion of that previous version. Previous version on 16th January was 31840 characters, meaning that a 5x expansion would need to be 159200, which seems an unlikely goal. I would suggest the GA process rather than DYK, as it's a quick fail here based on size alone. Miyagawa (talk) 18:08, 19 February 2012 (UTC)

Sorry, I think you are mistaken - there was no pre-existing version before 17th Feb. The page has been in my userspace since the end of 2009 and I have only just got around to moving it to mainspace. The page did not exist as an article when I moved it (the edit history moves with the page so it shows edits dating abck to 2009). I am at work at the moment (hence am not logged in) so cannot check into this somemore until the weekend (must be some log somewhere that will show date of page creation). Cheers, Dumelow - 62.189.171.213 (talk) 07:51, 21 February 2012 (UTC)

You're quite right, this was moved from userspace on the 17th. Therefore, this needs a full review as normal. Miyagawa (talk) 13:18, 21 February 2012 (UTC)

New Enough, moved from user space 2/17/2012. Long enough. Apears to be neutral, has inline citations, appears to have no plagiarism or copyright violations.
- Hook meets guidelines.
  - Image is free and used in article.
    - I hope you submit this to GA review ASAP. Great job.--Ishtar456 (talk) 01:17, 22 February 2012 (UTC)