Talk:Battle of Corycus

Battle of Corycus has been listed as one of the Warfare good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.

Battle of Corycus is part of the Roman–Seleucid war series, a good topic. This is identified as among the best series of articles produced by the Wikipedia community. If you can update or improve it, please do so.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
March 14, 2023	Good article nominee	Listed
January 14, 2024	Good topic candidate	Promoted

Current status: Good article

Greece Low‑importance

	Greece portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Greece, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Greece on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.GreeceWikipedia:WikiProject GreeceTemplate:WikiProject GreeceGreek articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Classical Greece and Rome Low‑importance

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Classical Greece and Rome, a group of contributors interested in Wikipedia's articles on classics. If you would like to join the WikiProject or learn how to contribute, please see our project page. If you need assistance from a classicist, please see our talk page.Classical Greece and RomeWikipedia:WikiProject Classical Greece and RomeTemplate:WikiProject Classical Greece and RomeClassical Greece and Rome articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Military history: Maritime / African / Roman & Byzantine / Classical

This article is within the scope of the Military history WikiProject. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the project and see a list of open tasks. To use this banner, please see the full instructions.Military historyWikipedia:WikiProject Military historyTemplate:WikiProject Military historymilitary history articles

Associated task forces:
/
	Maritime warfare task force
	African military history task force
	Roman and Byzantine military history task force
	Classical warfare task force (c. 700 BC – c. 500 AD)

A fact from Battle of Corycus appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 8 April 2023 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the Romans used grappling hooks during the Battle of Corycus to board Seleucid ships?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2023/April. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Battle of Corycus.

Wikipedia

Did you know nomination[edit]

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 Cielquiparle (talk) 16:49, 23 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

(

Comment or view
Article history

)

... that the Romans used grappling hooks during the Battle of Corycus to board Seleucid ships? Source: Taylor, Michael (2013). Antiochus The Great. Barnsley: Pen and Sword Military. ISBN 9781848844636. Page 139.
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Fort Pearson

Improved to Good Article status by Catlemur (talk). Nominated by Onegreatjoke (talk) at 13:47, 20 March 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Battle of Corycus; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.[reply]

Article was promoted to GA status on 14 March, and was nominated within the required time period. Article is plenty long enough, at over 10,000 characters. Article is well-sourced and neutral. Spotchecks on "Graigner, John (2002)" references reveal no issues of copyvio or close para-phrasing, and the article is consistently supported by the citations. Hook fact is accurate and cited, and a Google books snippet lets me confirm it. Good to go. Harrias ^{(he/him) • talk} 21:16, 20 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]