Template:Did you know nominations/Monbar Hotel attack

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The result was: promoted by Allen3 ^talk 11:10, 7 April 2013 (UTC).

Monbar Hotel attack

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... that the Monbar Hotel attack was the deadliest carried out by the GAL, a death squad established by officials of the Spanish state?

Created by Valenciano (talk). Self nominated at 20:08, 18 March 2013 (UTC).

reviewed Gordon R. Thompson

Comment: The article shows some inconsistencies (I have mentioned them in the talk page). --Ecemaml (talk) 13:53, 19 March 2013 (UTC)

That's now fixed. Valenciano (talk) 17:03, 19 March 2013 (UTC)

Yes, it is. --Ecemaml (talk) 23:43, 22 March 2013 (UTC)

Full review needed. BlueMoonset (talk) 21:37, 29 March 2013 (UTC)

On which specific issues? Verifiability? Grammar? Style? --Ecemaml (talk) 13:48, 2 April 2013 (UTC)

I'd also be interested to know what the hold up is. I've done somewhere around 25 DYKs to date and none of them have ever sat for 15 days without any feedback whatsoever. This is now the oldest DYK which hasn't received any kind of review. I'd like to maybe push the article for GA in the future but wanted some kind of eyes on it here first. Valenciano (talk) 15:56, 2 April 2013 (UTC)

Ecenaml, there hasn't been a formal DYK review of any kind yet here, except for your comment. So all issues that normally come up in a DYK review should be considered. Valenciano, unfortunately, when comments are made on a nomination and a conversation takes place, potential reviewers tend to pass it over for a more obvious target, seeing the text but not really reading it. It's why I'm reiterating the "review needed" icon, so people don't take the discussion since the first one as indication that a review is in progress. BlueMoonset (talk) 18:10, 2 April 2013 (UTC)

Okay, wasn't sure based on your comments earlier, but it's just a standard review that is needed. That's clear. Thanks. Valenciano (talk) 05:56, 3 April 2013 (UTC)

ALT1 ... that the Monbar Hotel attack was carried out by the GAL, a death squad established by officials of the Spanish state?

REVIEW COMPLETED - The following has been checked in this review by Esemono

QPQ done Template:Did you know nominations/Gordon R. Thompson

Article created by Valenciano on March 18, 2013 and has 9783 characters of readable prose

NPOV

ALT1 Hook is interesting, short enough and sourced with Refs 1, 2

The trial established what has long been suspected - that Gal was financed by secret funds from the (Spanish) Interior Ministry.

to the modest Hotel Monbar ... There, in 1985, mercenaries hired by the Spanish government strode into the bar and shot dead four suspected Eta members.

Every paragraph sourced

Earwig @ Toolserver Copyvio Detector found no copyvio

GTG -- Esemono (talk)

Thanks for taking the time to do that. Regarding the alt hook, I thought that the fact that it was the deadliest attack carried out by that group was relevant to its notability. Also, thinking about it, death squad should be linked. Valenciano (talk) 10:32, 7 April 2013 (UTC)