Template:Did you know nominations/British Army incremental infantry companies
- 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: promoted by The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 19:59, 1 June 2020 (UTC)
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British Army incremental infantry companies
- ... that during the 1990s, some British Army infantry battalions suffered such severe manpower shortages that they had to be reinforced by companies of Gurkhas?
5x expanded by Hammersfan (talk). Self-nominated at 10:00, 4 May 2020 (UTC).
Hi, thanks for nominating at DYK. At present this article is not a 5x expansion. Before your expansion began, the character count on September 3, 2019 was 1854 characters. Today it is 7688 characters, less than a 4x expansion. Please note that we do not include text in lists in the character count; however, I did include the large paragraphs in lists under Discarded Battalions and Airborne Forces because there was a sizable amount of sourced text there. I added two "citation needed" tags to paragraphs that didn't have them, per Rule D2. Images are freely licensed. No QPQ needed for nominator with less than 5 DYK credits. Yoninah (talk) 22:29, 20 May 2020 (UTC)
- Hammersfan, please note that if you think you might be able to expand the article to 9260 prose characters, the article could still be run at DYK, so do let us know if you wish to try (you have added around 1000 characters already). However, all of these characters would need to be in the prose; there will be resistance to allowing anything in lists, so even though Yoninah was generous in using 7688 characters, that was actually only 5068 prose characters per DYK standard measurements, which you have since expanded to 6088 prose characters, so you still need another 3172 prose characters. (You can always rewrite various bulleted lists as prose.) You will also need to adjust the bold links in the hook so it is a single bold link rather than two separate links, and to the main article rather than a section within it (i.e., companies of Gurkhas). BlueMoonset (talk) 20:34, 26 May 2020 (UTC)
- Obviously I am still interested in trying to get this included as a DYK, and will attempt to follow your advice in amending the piece. Hammersfan (talk) 00:11, 27 May 2020 (UTC)
Modifying icon to give an opportunity for further expansion. BlueMoonset (talk) 23:26, 27 May 2020 (UTC)
- Undertaken further expansion - added content, reduced numbers of bulleted lists through splitting some parts into separate sections. Hammersfan (talk) 15:45, 29 May 2020 (UTC)
- Thanks, Hammersfan; I see you took care of the "citation needed" templates and adjusted the bold link in the original hook. Pinging Yoninah to continue the review: prose characters are now up to 12078, nicely over the required 5x expansion. BlueMoonset (talk) 16:24, 29 May 2020 (UTC)
- OK, 5x expansion verified. I have added a "citation needed" tag to one paragraph per Rule D2. I also added the page number for the source verifying the hook fact. In general, you need to add page numbers for all these book references. We recently held back a nomination that also neglected to include page numbers. Yoninah (talk) 18:51, 30 May 2020 (UTC)
- I have added page numbers to all of the PDF links that I can see in the references, as well as adding a reference to the paragraph you indicated required one.Hammersfan (talk) 22:34, 30 May 2020 (UTC)
