Template:Did you know nominations/Operation Eagle

The following discussion is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as 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 Crisco 1492 (talk) 13:43, 29 August 2011 (UTC)

Operation Eagle

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... that Operation Eagle is an Egyptian military campaign aimed at confronting Islamic insurgents and criminal gangs in the Sinai Peninsula?

ALT1:~~... that Operation Eagle marks the first time Egypt has deployed military forces in the Sinai Peninsula in more than 30 years?~~

Operation Eagle does not mark the first time Egypt deployed forces to the Sinai since 30 years. Egypt had long deployed military forces in the Sinai since the October war, and to the present day, and the peace treaty done nothing but limiting the number of troops Egypt is to deploy in Certain parts of the Sinai. So, since 1973 Egypt had military forces in the Sinai. The assumption that this is the First time since the October war that Egypt deploys forces there is, simply, wrong.

( ΡHARAOH The Muslim 10:25, 29 August 2011 (UTC)

Reviewed: Decision fatigue
Comment: The page was formerly a redirect to another article. It's not essential that the image appear with the hook.

Created/expanded by Biosketch (talk). Self nom at 08:05, 24 August 2011 (UTC)

Hook: Short enough, cited, interesting enough. Image is probably not good for the main page due to interest factor.

Article: Long enough, new enough, neutral. Image is PD (CIA). Spotchecks seem okay, but I wonder if we need all the quotes.

Summary:

I think the quotes in the reference section are unnecessary and somewhat worrying from a copyright perspective. It may be better to remove them. Crisco 1492 (talk) 07:31, 28 August 2011 (UTC)

I don't know (see for example my cites at Mairead Maguire and 2011 Estonian cyclists abduction – you may wanna hold on to your seat), but to be safe I've excised seven quotations from the refs that the article can manage without.

Also, One last pharaoh (talk · contribs) may have a point about ALT1 – Egypt deployed military forces in 2008 when Operation Cast Lead was going on, according to a source quoted by Xinhua here. As far as the article's concerned, the content is still accurate because I was careful there to say "on such a scale," but the ALT may be considered somewhat misleading.—Biosketch (talk) 11:34, 29 August 2011 (UTC)

Seems much better. Original good to go, ALT crossed out. The Maguire article is half references! Crisco 1492 (talk) 13:08, 29 August 2011 (UTC)