Template:Did you know nominations/Directorate of National Coordination


 * The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as |this nomination's talk page, 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 Allen3 talk 13:33, 12 March 2015 (UTC)

Directorate of National Coordination

 * ... that the Directorate of National Coordination served as civil police, immigration service, national police, and military intelligence service?
 * ALT1:... that the Laotian Directorate of National Coordination served as civil police, immigration service, national police, and military intelligence service?
 * ALT2:... that policemen from the Directorate of National Coordination were co-opted into an airborne army unit?
 * Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Eliza Ann Grier
 * Editorial Comment: I prefer the original hook over ALT1; the latter is offered in case the original is too ambiguous. The choice then is actually between two hooks&mdash;ALT2 and one of the others. In any case, the article describes a wartime situation where all the police forces are lumped into one, and subsequently come to rival military power. All with the standard conniving that characterized Laos in that era.

Created by Georgejdorner (talk). Self nominated at 19:48, 1 March 2015 (UTC).


 * Symbol voting keep.svg Newness: Good. Length: Long! Policy: Apparently good. I'll have to AGF on the offline sources. Hook: I like Alt 1. The first thing I thought when seeing the hook as proposed was "Directorate of National Coordination of what country?". Alt 2 is a bit more flavorful but lacks enough context to be meaningful to the average person. This should be good to go. Abyssal (talk) 19:43, 11 March 2015 (UTC)