Template:Did you know nominations/Luxembourg and the United Nations
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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 23:19, 25 October 2014 (UTC)
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Luxembourg and the United Nations[edit]
- ... that Luxembourg's role at the United Nations began when it was the smallest founding member state in 1945?
Created by Siegfried Nugent (talk). Nominated by Innotata (talk) at 06:16, 20 October 2014 (UTC).
New enough, long enough, and (mostly) well cited. However, a few statements do not appear to be supported by the citations given, including the claim that the 1945 San Francisco delegation was headed by Joseph Bech and the claim that Sylvie Lucas served as President of the United Nations Security Council in 2014. More importantly, there are some instances of close paraphrasing between the article and the "Luxembourg at the UN" source (footnote number one) that need to be cleaned up. Overall, though, this is a very interesting article and I think it will make a great DYK once these issues are resolved. Also, I'd be willing to help with the cleanup, so please let me know if you'd like me to chip in and help. Michael Barera (talk) 16:17, 25 October 2014 (UTC)
- I've added citations for Joseph Bech and Sylvie Lucas. I'm not that experienced dealing with close paraphrasing and I'm busy, so would you mind helping me out or giving me pointers? (I couldn't identify anything that would be excessive, and the Tools Lab link is down.) —innotata 19:08, 25 October 2014 (UTC)
The extra citations are much appreciated. I've worked on removing the instances of close paraphrasing, and I think it is passable now (the most notable "offender" is a title-and-webpage string that appears in the references, which is clearly not an actual issue). The hook is a good one, within the character limit and certainly interesting. I think this is good to go now! Thanks for your patience. Michael Barera (talk) 22:01, 25 October 2014 (UTC)
