Template:Did you know nominations/1973 Brooklyn hostage crisis

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The result was: promoted by Cielquiparle (talk) 15:51, 2 September 2023 (UTC)

1973 Brooklyn hostage crisis

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• ... that the 1973 Brooklyn hostage crisis has been described as the "birthplace of hostage negotiation"? Source: "One NYPD captain calls that event “the birthplace of hostage negotiation”, because all parties ultimately chose a peaceful resolution."
  • ALT1: ... that prior to the 1973 Brooklyn hostage crisis, most American police officers preferred to resolve hostage-takings with deadly force instead of crisis negotiation? Source: "Harvey Schlossberg said that in a hostage situation, police officers “all believed, ‘If you gave me the right gun with the right bullet, I can put everybody out.’” ... “But I don’t think it works that easy,” he said. “That’s a Hollywood thing.”"
  • ALT2: ... that during the 1973 Brooklyn hostage crisis, the New York City Police Department and Harvey Schlossberg considered allowing the hostage-takers to leave the country in exchange for the hostages? Source: "The top officers apparently did give somewhat more consideration to providing free passage out of the country—if the gunmen had bargained for release of the hostages."
  • ALT3: ... that according to some bystanders, the 1973 Brooklyn hostage crisis was "better than the Super Bowl"? Source: "“This is better than pro football,” somebody says. “This is better than the Super Bowl.” The crowd laughs. Half the people want the gunmen to come out fighting. The other half want the cops to go in shooting. Everybody wants blood."
  • ALT4: ... that the 1973 Brooklyn hostage crisis was a direct result of a massacre of Muslims the day prior? Source: "The defense, on the other hand, argued that the Sunni Muslims, who are supposed to be pacifists, planned the robbery in order to get guns for self‐protection. The day before the sporting‐goods holdup, seven members of their sect had been killed in a massacre in a house in Washington."
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Tommy Villiers

Improved to Good Article status by AdoTang (talk). Self-nominated at 19:11, 18 August 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/1973 Brooklyn hostage crisis; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy compliance:

• Adequate sourcing:
• Neutral:
• Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing: - The Earwig result shows 43.8% similarity. Most of it is quotes but there are some instances of close paraphrasing. A few instances are:
  • "The killings occurred... had seemingly turned away from the Nation of Islam"
  • "The NYPD's 90th Precinct... by a silent alarm and a Bushwick High School student who managed to escape"
  • "... a typist had incorrectly described one of the weapons"

I would check Earwig and the sources and try to make sure that everything has been put into your own words.

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: If you can just resolve the close paraphrasing issues above, I'm happy to pass this review. Sammielh (talk) 17:33, 19 August 2023 (UTC)

• @Sammielh: Reworded these lines and a few others. Earwig now says 39.4% for the Bushwick Daily source as of typing this, and almost all of the flags are for quotes. AdoTang (talk) 00:24, 23 August 2023 (UTC)
  • @AdoTang: Thank you for rewording. I've taken another look and it is now almost entirely quotes and names being picked up by earwig. The source for ALT2 doesn't specifically say that Schlossberg was one of the people considering that approach but I'm happy to approve any of the other hooks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sammielh (talk • contribs)