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Did you know... that during the Fall of Herat a United Nations office in
Herat was attacked, killing a security guard?
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... that prior to the Fall of Herat the
Taliban captured eight
districts and two border crossings in a 24 hour period? Source: "Over the past 24 hours, the Taliban has captured eight districts in Herat province including Islam Qala and Torghundi border towns."
TOLO news
ALT1:... that during the Fall of Herat a United Nations office in
Herat was caught in the crossfire, killing a security guard? Source:
AP news
ALT2:... that in protest of the
TalibanHerat residents chanted "Allahu Akbar" (God is greatest) before the city fell? Source:
Aljazeera
Comment: 4th nom, QPQ not needed
Moved to mainspace by
Danre98 (
talk). Self-nominated at 16:16, 23 August 2021 (UTC).reply
Article is new enough and long enough. All hooks are interesting, well cited and within acceptable limits. Will let nominator decide which to use. There is a minor
close-paraphrasing issue, general phrases aside, that needs attention See :
Duplication detector results. --
Gwillhickers (
talk) 17:51, 26 August 2021 (UTC)reply
@
Gwillhickers: Thanks for reviewing! All the phrases the detector picked up were from the references section of the article, where the phrases are the titles of the articles. For example, see
TOLO news for the first phrase. I don't think there is a close paraphrasing problem. As for hook preference, I slightly prefer the original hook but if set assemblers think one fits better than the others for a particular day and use that one instead that's fine. —
Danre98(
talk^
contribs) 18:03, 26 August 2021 (UTC)reply
Note: The phrases from TOLO news's side of the report that were picked up were titles from the "related news" section on their site. —
Danre98(
talk^
contribs) 18:05, 26 August 2021 (UTC)reply
Yes, that checks out. Article is good to go. --
Gwillhickers (
talk) 18:09, 26 August 2021 (UTC)reply
comment In promoting, I changed the hook from "caught in the crossfire" to "attacked"—I can't quite believe I have to say this, but The Taliban is a terrorist organization, not a
WP:RS for its own activities.
theleekycauldron (
talk •
contribs) (
they/them) 02:13, 27 August 2021 (UTC)
To
T:DYK/P2reply
A fact from Fall of Herat appeared on Wikipedia's
Main Page in the Did you know column on 30 August 2021 (
check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that during the Fall of Herat a United Nations office in
Herat was attacked, killing a security guard?
While the biographies of living persons policy does not apply directly to the subject of this article, it may contain material that relates to living persons, such as friends and family of persons no longer living, or living persons involved in the subject matter. Unsourced or
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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.
... that prior to the Fall of Herat the
Taliban captured eight
districts and two border crossings in a 24 hour period? Source: "Over the past 24 hours, the Taliban has captured eight districts in Herat province including Islam Qala and Torghundi border towns."
TOLO news
ALT1:... that during the Fall of Herat a United Nations office in
Herat was caught in the crossfire, killing a security guard? Source:
AP news
ALT2:... that in protest of the
TalibanHerat residents chanted "Allahu Akbar" (God is greatest) before the city fell? Source:
Aljazeera
Comment: 4th nom, QPQ not needed
Moved to mainspace by
Danre98 (
talk). Self-nominated at 16:16, 23 August 2021 (UTC).reply
Article is new enough and long enough. All hooks are interesting, well cited and within acceptable limits. Will let nominator decide which to use. There is a minor
close-paraphrasing issue, general phrases aside, that needs attention See :
Duplication detector results. --
Gwillhickers (
talk) 17:51, 26 August 2021 (UTC)reply
@
Gwillhickers: Thanks for reviewing! All the phrases the detector picked up were from the references section of the article, where the phrases are the titles of the articles. For example, see
TOLO news for the first phrase. I don't think there is a close paraphrasing problem. As for hook preference, I slightly prefer the original hook but if set assemblers think one fits better than the others for a particular day and use that one instead that's fine. —
Danre98(
talk^
contribs) 18:03, 26 August 2021 (UTC)reply
Note: The phrases from TOLO news's side of the report that were picked up were titles from the "related news" section on their site. —
Danre98(
talk^
contribs) 18:05, 26 August 2021 (UTC)reply
Yes, that checks out. Article is good to go. --
Gwillhickers (
talk) 18:09, 26 August 2021 (UTC)reply
comment In promoting, I changed the hook from "caught in the crossfire" to "attacked"—I can't quite believe I have to say this, but The Taliban is a terrorist organization, not a
WP:RS for its own activities.
theleekycauldron (
talk •
contribs) (
they/them) 02:13, 27 August 2021 (UTC)
To
T:DYK/P2reply