Talk:2-inch RP

Did you know nomination

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The result was: withdrawn by nominator, closed by BlueMoonset (talk) 04:48, 13 January 2022 (UTC)

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• ... that the only widely known use of the 2-inch RP rocket by the Fleet Air Arm was to attack the stricken oil tanker SS Torrey Canyon? Source: BBC
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Saumlaki

Created by Maury Markowitz (talk). Self-nominated at 13:41, 21 December 2021 (UTC).

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

Policy compliance:

• Adequate sourcing: - n
• Neutral:
• Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook eligibility:

• Cited: - n
• Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Three citations needed. Source cited for hook does not support hook; it refers to 11 rockets, type unspecified, and makes no mention of this being well known incident. Georgejdorner (talk) 02:00, 26 December 2021 (UTC)

@Georgejdorner: If being covered by the BBC, with many contemporary news articles/television segments and being the subject of a number of retrospectives decades later is not "well-known", well, what is then? Maury Markowitz (talk) 15:30, 27 December 2021 (UTC)

@Maury Markowitz: Let's set aside the quibbles about "widely known" and "well known" for a moment. How about the fact that the anonymous rockets were not necessarily 2 inch RP missiles? And the citations needed?Georgejdorner (talk) 20:22, 27 December 2021 (UTC)

Withdraw nom. Maury Markowitz (talk) 22:21, 10 January 2022 (UTC)