Template:Did you know nominations/Solano castle

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The result was: rejected by Moswento ^talky 20:16, 6 January 2013 (UTC)

Solano castle

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... that the Solano castle in Puerto Cabello is the last military construction built during the colonial era in Venezuela?

ALT1:... that Spanish commander Antonio Zuazola was imprisoned and hanged in the Solano castle after a surprise attack by the forces of Rafael Urdaneta?
ALT2:... that Pedro Carujo was imprisoned in the Solano castle after attempting to kill Simón Bolívar?
ALT3:... that in 1962, the Solano castle became the stronghold of a military revolt occured in Puerto Cabello?
Reviewed: Omphalotus
Comment: I don't know if this could be considered. The article had a lot of original research that I couldn't even verify. So, I removed it all and rewrote the article from scratch with the correct information. Note that the previous version was a translated copy-paste from es-wiki.

Created/expanded by Hahc21 (talk). Self nom at 22:56, 5 January 2013 (UTC)

While the old article had notes rather than references, there's no evidence that any of it was a copyvio, which is the only exception I'm aware of: copyvios are deducted from the base use to calculate 5x expansion. Also, the article had been over 10,000 prose characters before deletions, and the new one is under half that length. So, while it's good to have a properly referenced article with inline citations to back of the information there, by DYK rules this does not qualify as new nor as a 5x expansion, and it needs to in order to run. BlueMoonset (talk) 23:47, 5 January 2013 (UTC)
- Aw. Okay. I was expecting this answer :) — ΛΧΣ²¹ 04:37, 6 January 2013 (UTC)

Sorry! It's no fun having to disappoint people, but sometimes that's the only real option. BlueMoonset (talk) 05:22, 6 January 2013 (UTC)

Don't worry :) I still have so much to write about these castles. I wanted to have them all go through DYK, but I was aware from the start that this one may not pass because of its original length. Regards. — ΛΧΣ²¹ 06:24, 6 January 2013 (UTC)