Template:Did you know nominations/East German balloon escape


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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 23:39, 21 April 2018 (UTC)

East German balloon escape

 * ... that in 1979, eight people escaped from East Germany to the west in a homemade hot air balloon? Source: most of the sources in the article verify this, including
 * Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Archery, Georgia

Created by MB (talk). Self-nominated at 18:19, 1 April 2018 (UTC).


 * Symbol question.svg Interesting, on excellent sources, offline sources accepted AGF, no copyvio obvious. Please change to European date format. How do you feel abour an infobox? East Germany is nothing I would link to, the country's name is German Democratic Republic. The German "Paar" translates to "couple" (not "pair"), afaik. Hook: I am not happy with just "escaped for a pipe link, and think it's "the West", no? How is this:
 * ALT1: ... that in 1979, eight people escaped from East Germany to the West in a homemade hot air balloon? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:47, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
 * , Yes, ALT1 is an improvement. I don't want to change the date format - I used the format I am used to but since European is more appropriate for this article I suspect someone with a date-changing script with change them before it makes it to the mainpage. I usually use infoboxes, but don't know of one appropriate for this subject. Any suggestions? I don't understand the "Paar" comment - I don't find that in this article. At this point, I have not changed anything. Thanks for the review. MB 22:19, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
 * infobox event? - I read "pair" a few times, and thought it's normally "couple", - "pair of socks" but "married couple", - but may be wrong. Waiting for qpq review. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:24, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
 * , I had done a QPQ but forgot to put it here. "two individuals who are similar or in some way associated" is one definition for "pair"; I think it is fine. Will look into infobox. MB 22:44, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Symbol voting keep.svg --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:47, 2 April 2018 (UTC)