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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) 11:59, 4 April 2023 (UTC)

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Daddy, what did you do in the Great War?

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Improved to Good Article status by Unexpectedlydian (talk). Nominated by Onegreatjoke (talk) at 23:34, 1 April 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Daddy, what did you do in the Great War?; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.

  • Hi Onegreatjoke (talk), interesting article, I've written a bit on the First World War here. Review: article promoted to GA on 28 March; article is well written and well sourced; I checked some of the sources I have access to and found no issue with overly close paraphrasing, Earwig is clear; hook is perhaps moderately interesting to an outsider, though I would welcome other suggestions. I am not well versed in graphic design but it doesn't strike me as that unusual; I have added the quotation marks to the hook to make it clear this is a poster being discussed (there is somewhere guidance on when to use quotations and when to use italics, the article uses quotations); hook is mentioned in article and cited inline to an offline source from which I will AGF that it supports the statement; image looks to be properly licensed, as published in 1915, and is recognisable a this scale; a QPQ has been done. Approving but will keep an eye open for any proposed alternative hooks - Dumelow (talk) 18:33, 2 April 2023 (UTC)
@Onegreatjoke and Unexpectedlydian: Agree with @Dumelow: that the hook is not all it should be. The article is great and the image as well, and I would like to promote a different hook. Here are a few ideas:
Bruxton (talk) 22:44, 2 April 2023 (UTC)
Thanks Bruxton, those are great suggestions. I can't verify any of the hooks as I don't have access to the sources but all are mentioned in the article and cited inline so can be approved on an AGF basis. One minor comment I have is that the term "First World War" is more generally preferred in the UK over "World War I"; eg. "First World War" is more than 2.5x more common in the most recent works in Google Books. I generally use "First World War" for British-centric articles for this reason. However the hooks reflect the usage of the article and I am not about to suggest it should be changed as a prerequisite for DYK appearance - Dumelow (talk) 07:12, 3 April 2023 (UTC)
@Cielquiparle: I hope that you will consider promoting one with the image. You also can consider the reviewer's comments about the use of WWI. Bruxton (talk) 15:59, 3 April 2023 (UTC)
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