Template:Did you know nominations/1st Czechoslovak Partisan Brigade of Jan Žižka

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The result was: promoted by Hawkeye7 (talk) 19:57, 26 June 2013 (UTC)

1st Czechoslovak Partisan Brigade of Jan Žižka

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• ... that the 1st Czechoslovak Partisan Brigade of Jan Žižka was the largest military unit conducting guerrilla warfare against the German occupation forces in the territory of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia during the Second World War?

Created by Cimmerian praetor (talk). Self nominated at 20:12, 25 May 2013 (UTC).

• Hook is too long - should be 200 characters or fewer. I would also recommend copy-editing the article or finding someone else to do so. Nikkimaria (talk) 23:19, 27 May 2013 (UTC)

• ALT1 ... that the 1st Czechoslovak Partisan Brigade of Jan Žižka limited admission into its ranks due to lack of firearms for new partisans?
• ALT2 ... that the 1st Czechoslovak Partisan Brigade of Jan Žižka's Group Olga captured Generalleutnant Dietrich von Müller?
• ALT3 ... that the first commander of the 1st Czechoslovak Partisan Brigade of Jan Žižka Ján Ušiak (pictured) was killed in action and its second commander B.D. Mursin was seriously wounded twice?
• Charles01 has agreed to copy-edit the article. It will take him some time, but I guess it will be done by the time this hook gets to the front page.
• Cimmerian praetor (talk) 21:14, 28 May 2013 (UTC)

• Article is plenty long enough and new enough. It is thoroughly supported by reference citations -- although it's disconcerting that almost all of them are to the same book. The copy-editing that Nikkimaria asked for has been done. I have to AGF regarding sources and copyvios due to the offline foreign-language source. The original hook and ALTs 1 and 2 are in the article and supported by citations. ALT3 doesn't work for me -- the article indicates that Ján Ušiak killed himself to avoid capture. I have concerns about the wording and interest level of all three hooks that are factually OK. The original hook could be shortened to meet length criteria. ALT1 would be more interesting with a bit of added context. ALT2 seems like an important fact, but without the context of what the unit was or who Dietrich von Müller was, I'm not awfully interested. I suggest the following rewording for the original hook and ALT1:

• ORIGINAL-REV: ... that the 1st Czechoslovak Partisan Brigade of Jan Žižka was the largest unit conducting guerrilla warfare against the German occupation in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia during World War II?
• ALT1-REV: ... that a shortage of firearms caused the World War II 1st Czechoslovak Partisan Brigade of Jan Žižka to have to turn away new recruits? --Orlady (talk) 15:32, 26 June 2013 (UTC)

Thank you Orlady. I think that the ALT1-REV is very well chosen. Cimmerian praetor (talk) 18:10, 26 June 2013 (UTC)