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Did you know... that contract killer Werner Pinzner fatally shot the investigating public prosecutor, his own wife, and himself at the Hamburg police headquarters?
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The result was: promoted by
Bruxton (
talk) 00:32, 12 February 2023 (UTC)reply
... that Werner Pinzner shot the investigating public prosecutor, his wife, and himself during an interrogation at the Hamburg police headquarters in 1986? Source:
Abendblatt Spiegel
Article is new enough, long enough, sourced properly, and a quite good article on an interesting subject. The hook is sourced inline (I am not super familiar with German sources and which are reliable, but the one used for the info in the hook is good). The hook is interesting, though might I suggest you or the editor moving this to a prep change the wording to "... that contract killer Werner Pinzner"; I think that'll turn a few more heads. In any case: excellent work,
FuzzyMagma! ~
Pbritti (
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This article is written in
British English, which has its own spelling conventions (colour, travelled, centre, defence, artefact, analyse) and some terms that are used in it may be different or absent from other
varieties of English. According to the
relevant style guide, this should not be changed without
broad consensus.
A fact from Werner Pinzner appeared on Wikipedia's
Main Page in the Did you know column on 22 February 2023 (
check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that contract killer Werner Pinzner fatally shot the investigating public prosecutor, his own wife, and himself at the Hamburg police headquarters?
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The result was: promoted by
Bruxton (
talk) 00:32, 12 February 2023 (UTC)reply
... that Werner Pinzner shot the investigating public prosecutor, his wife, and himself during an interrogation at the Hamburg police headquarters in 1986? Source:
Abendblatt Spiegel
Article is new enough, long enough, sourced properly, and a quite good article on an interesting subject. The hook is sourced inline (I am not super familiar with German sources and which are reliable, but the one used for the info in the hook is good). The hook is interesting, though might I suggest you or the editor moving this to a prep change the wording to "... that contract killer Werner Pinzner"; I think that'll turn a few more heads. In any case: excellent work,
FuzzyMagma! ~
Pbritti (
talk) 16:53, 9 February 2023 (UTC)reply