Template:Did you know nominations/9 January 1917 German Crown Council meeting

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The result was: promoted by TSventon (talk) 12:21, 1 January 2023 (UTC)

9 January 1917 German Crown Council meeting

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• ... that on 9 January 1917 German Emperor Wilhelm II agreed to implement unrestricted submarine warfare? Source: "The decision to cut the thin thread that held the sword was made on 9 January 1917 at a crown council held at the emperor's residence in Pless , Silesia . The date of 1 February was set as the date for opening the campaign. All shipping, enemy and neutral, including passenger ships, would be liable to attack without warning" from: Breemer, Jan S. (2010). Defeating the U-boat: Inventing Antisubmarine Warfare. Government Printing Office. pp. 41–42. ISBN 978-1-884733-77-2.
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Oliver Hailey
  • Comment: Would be good to run on the anniversary

Moved to mainspace by Dumelow (talk). Self-nominated at 12:54, 12 December 2022 (UTC).

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: @Dumelow: Good article. Onegreatjoke (talk) 15:04, 12 December 2022 (UTC)

no, it's unclassified, not a GA yet :) – dudhhr ^talk _contribs (he/they) 16:18, 12 December 2022 (UTC)

@Dumelow and Onegreatjoke:, I think it is time for the nomination to be promoted to prep, however I don't think the hook fact is expressed clearly in the body of the article. Dumelow, Could you reword it? The key sentence seems to be "Wilhelm declared that he was persuaded by the arguments in favour of unrestricted submarine warfare." The source refers to the Kaiser "declaring that ‘Unrestricted U-Boat warfare was therefore decided’.", which makes it clear that the Kaiser was declaring the council's decision, rather than his own opinion. TSventon (talk) 10:57, 1 January 2023 (UTC)

Good point TSventon, I've added "and that the policy would be adopted" to the article text. The council was only advisory and the decision lay entirely with Wilhelm - Dumelow (talk) 11:20, 1 January 2023 (UTC)

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