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.

The result was: rejected by BlueMoonset ( talk) 21:50, 23 January 2016 (UTC)
Article had already been nominated by its creator two days prior to this nomination's creation; closing duplication nomination.

Militia occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge

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... that armed members of several rump militias have occupied the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge (pictured) in protest to convictions of two ranchers on arson charges?

• Reviewed: Christiane Floyd
• Comment: Concurrently nominated in Template:Did you know nominations/Jon Ritzheimer as 2nd article. This stand-alone nomination is a response to the suggestion there. I could not find a better ALT; feel free to add one.

Created by LavaBaron ( talk) and NorthBySouthBaranof ( talk). Nominated by George Ho ( talk) at 23:15, 5 January 2016 (UTC).

• ALT1: ... that members of several armed groups have occupied the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge (pictured) in protest to convictions of two ranchers on arson charges?

• The ALT1 is a response to ongoing discussion on changing "rump militia" to something else. George Ho ( talk) 18:10, 6 January 2016 (UTC)

I'm fine with that. LavaBaron ( talk) 02:28, 12 January 2016 (UTC)

George Ho - are you still reviewing this? LavaBaron ( talk) 09:22, 23 January 2016 (UTC)

What do you mean? I can't review my own nomination. The rule does not allow it. -- George Ho ( talk) 19:02, 23 January 2016 (UTC)

There's a nomination for the same article that's 48 hours older [1] than this one. LavaBaron ( talk) 19:45, 23 January 2016 (UTC)