Template:Did you know nominations/Sydney Hobart Ball

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The result was: promoted by Allen3 ^talk 11:21, 26 July 2016 (UTC)

Sydney Hobart Ball[edit]

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... that while prospecting for minerals in the Belgian Congo, Sydney Hobart Ball's party came under attack and the resulting clash, which claimed 130 lives, became known as "The Battle of Ball's Run"?

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Don Ingalls
Comment: Some of the Congo section contains information from the Richard Mohun article, but the new content is much more than 1,500 characters.

Moved to mainspace by Dumelow (talk). Self-nominated at 07:39, 17 July 2016 (UTC).

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- ✓ This article is new and was created on 07:31, 17 July 2016 (UTC)
- ✓ This article meets the DYK criteria at 3473 characters
- ✓ All paragraphs in this article have at least one citation
- ✓ This article has no outstanding maintenance tags
- ✓ A copyright violation is unlikely (5.7% confidence; confirm)
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- ✓ The hook ALT0 is an appropriate length at 192 characters
- ✓ Dumelow has more than 5 DYK credits. A QPQ review of Template:Did you know nominations/Don Ingalls was performed for this nomination.

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New enough, long enough. Hook is interesting and cited to an offline source (AGF). QPQ present. No glaring issues in the article itself. Good to go! Raymie (t • c) 21:07, 25 July 2016 (UTC)