Template:Did you know nominations/George XI of Kartli
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The result was: rejected by George Ho (talk) 03:14, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
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George XI of Kartli[edit]
- ... that Georgian King George XI (pictured) who was a commander-in-chief of Afghanistan and governor of Kandahar personally arrested Mir Wais Hotak who is now considered as Afghanistan's "Grandfather of the Nation"?
Created by Jaqeli (talk). Self nominated at 11:52, 4 January 2014 (UTC).
- Leaving aside the question of eligibility for DYK (this article was created in 2005, and has been gradually expanded in the intervening years; even the significant expansion is not recent enough) and attribution (I'll assume that user:Jaqeli misunderstood the question of who is to be listed as creator; this article was written by user:Kober), the statement that George XI arrested Mir Wais Hotak personally is not exactly what the article says. "He subdued many of the local leaders and sent Mirwais Khan Hotak, a powerful chieftain of the Ghilzai Afghans (Pashtuns), in chains to Isfahan" does not necessarily imply that George XI captured Mirwais personally; presumably there were many soldiers involved. Furthermore, even the statement about capturing Mirwais is not sourced. As an additional quibble, the article on George XI does not state that Mirwais is considered the 'grandfather of Afghanistan' (although Mirwais's own article does). On the other hand, there may be objections to the use of the word "arrested" rather than "captured", but because George XI was at that time the viceroy (under Sultan Husayn) of Kandahar Province, I feel that he had jurisdiction, and thus the capture was legally an arrest.
- I'm not comfortable with rejecting this outright (I'll leave that up to someone else), but it's definitely not ready. DS (talk) 15:51, 5 January 2014 (UTC)
How would this not be ineligble? There isn't a single edit to the article in January 2014. --Soman (talk) 01:57, 6 January 2014 (UTC)