Template:Did you know nominations/Theatre Europe

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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 20:18, 8 February 2016 (UTC)

Theatre Europe

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• that the 1986 video game Theatre Europe required the player to call a dedicated telephone number to request a nuclear strike?

• ALT1:that the 1986 video game Theatre Europe was heavily criticised in the United Kingdom for its ability to end the world in a nuclear holocaust?
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Katcheri

Improved to Good Article status by Jaguar (talk). Self-nominated at 12:13, 18 January 2016 (UTC).

Article promoted to GA on 17 Jan; 10,492 characters long; copyvio free. Hook format and content good. QPQ done. FunkyCanute (talk) 16:06, 24 January 2016 (UTC)

• There is close paraphrasing from the Crash Online source which needs to be reworded or placed in quotes:
• Source: Special units are made available to the Warsaw Pact: the 1st Airborne Army which can be flown directly behind enemy lines, and the 1st Amphibious Army which can move over the sea to a tactical attack point.
• Article: Special units are exclusively available to the Warsaw Pact; the 1st Airborne Army, which can be flown directly behind enemy lines, and the 1st Amphibious Army, which is able to move across the sea.
• Source: showing mountain ranges, capital cities, country borders and all the armed forces of both sides.
• Article: such as mountain ranges, capital cities, country borders and all the armed forces of both sides.
• Source: Any amount of your units can attack a single enemy army, but once a unit is sent into battle it cannot be halted until the phase is over.
• Article: Any amount of friendly units can attack a single enemy army; however, once a unit is sent into battle it cannot be halted until the attacking phase is over.
• Source: the battle is decided on merits of air superiority, supplies and armament.
• Article: the battle will instead be decided on merits of air superiority, supplies and armament.
• Source: Essential options are air power (the most important), counter air strikes and reconnaissance. Other options include interdiction, assault breakers, deep strike and iron snake.
• Article: Several options for allocating air forces include; counter air strikes, reconnaissance on enemy movement, interdiction, assault breakers, deep strike and "iron snake".
• Yoninah (talk) 23:50, 7 February 2016 (UTC)

@Yoninah: thanks for checking that over. I've paraphrased and reworded all of the above. JAGUAR  15:58, 8 February 2016 (UTC)

• Thanks for the quick work! I put the last chunk of closely paraphrased text, which was impossible to paraphrase, into quotes. Restoring tick per FunkyCanute's review. Yoninah (talk) 20:17, 8 February 2016 (UTC)