The following discussion 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
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The result was: promoted by Allen3talk 16:20, 9 March 2014 (UTC)
ALT3:... that the ex-
Confederate general
Loring Pasha blamed his defeat at Gura, Eritrea—which cost
Egypt control over the entire region—on his "inept" commander, despite having been directly responsible for the order to face the
Ethiopians in the open?
Reviewed: [A bunch a while ago, but I can do some more if necessary...]A Lume Spento
Created by
LlywelynII (
talk). Self nominated at 11:37, 24 February 2014 (UTC).
New enough, long enough, cited enough, and just a great article overall. But I'm torn between ALT2 and ALT4... I steer toward 4 but that's just me.
Maury Markowitz (
talk) 17:41, 7 March 2014 (UTC)
One minor point: if we choose one of the ALTs we should also change the image. There's suitable images for pretty much all of them.
Maury Markowitz (
talk) 17:46, 7 March 2014 (UTC)
The following discussion 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 Allen3talk 16:20, 9 March 2014 (UTC)
ALT3:... that the ex-
Confederate general
Loring Pasha blamed his defeat at Gura, Eritrea—which cost
Egypt control over the entire region—on his "inept" commander, despite having been directly responsible for the order to face the
Ethiopians in the open?
Reviewed: [A bunch a while ago, but I can do some more if necessary...]A Lume Spento
Created by
LlywelynII (
talk). Self nominated at 11:37, 24 February 2014 (UTC).
New enough, long enough, cited enough, and just a great article overall. But I'm torn between ALT2 and ALT4... I steer toward 4 but that's just me.
Maury Markowitz (
talk) 17:41, 7 March 2014 (UTC)
One minor point: if we choose one of the ALTs we should also change the image. There's suitable images for pretty much all of them.
Maury Markowitz (
talk) 17:46, 7 March 2014 (UTC)