Template:Did you know nominations/Philippine Resistance against Japan

Philippine resistance against Japan
Created/expanded by Arius1998 (talk). Self nom at 14:34, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
 * ... that Philippine resistance against Japan was the name used to denote the collection of resistance movements that fought against the Empire of Japan during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines in World War II?


 * Symbol confirmed.svg Electric Catfish 16:31, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
 * The above comment was removed by but has been restored by myself because the below opinion by  will appear out of place without it. Cunard (talk) 05:39, 1 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Symbol question.svg Actually, I have a second opinion here (or perhaps the first, seeing as the previous reviewer did not even comment with a single word). And while date and size are fine, the hook is a problem. Setting aside the fact that it is very boring (and the article has a number of more interesting possibilities), the hook is also unreferenced. I am not seeing any ref that confirms this term is used in such a way. Sure, it is common sense, but still, I'd strongly suggest a different, more interesting and properly referenced hook. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 18:07, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Okay, but I was clearly wrong and missed that the hook was unreferenced. Electric Catfish 18:59, 3 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Symbol possible vote.svg In addition to the hook being boring and unreferenced, it is also longer than permissible at 214 characters. Furthermore, the nominator has far more than five DYKs, and owes a QPQ review. Finally, there has been no response to the talk page note Piotrus added on the 30th, despite significant activity by the nominator. BlueMoonset (talk) 03:55, 5 September 2012 (UTC)
 * ALT1 * ... that such was the effectiveness of Philippine resistance against Japan that by the end of World War II, the Japanese controlled only 12 of the 48 provinces? Arius1998 (talk) 07:21, 5 September 2012 (UTC)

While I much prefer the new hook to the original, it unfortunately cannot be used because of the unacceptably close paraphrasing to the book from which is is sourced, which also extends to the equivalent sentence from the article itself. Further, the sentence before it is an exact copy. Compare these sentences from article and the source: I have not checked for further close paraphrasing, but a further review doing so should be undertaken before this is approved. The article was tagged a few days ago with a template questioning its neutrality (talk page says one guerilla group is overbalanced in the article). This is an issue for DYK, as one of the criteria is that the article be neutral. BlueMoonset (talk) 13:34, 5 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Article: Postwar investigations showed that about 260,000 people were in guerrilla organizations and that members of the anti-Japanese underground organizations were even more numerous. Such was their effectiveness that by the end of the war in 1945, Japan controlled only twelve of the forty-eight provinces.
 * Source: Postwar investigations showed that about 260,000 people were in guerrilla organizations and that members of the anti-Japanese underground organizations were even more numerous. Their effectiveness was such that by the end of the war, Japan controlled only 12 of the 48 provinces in the Philippines.


 * Symbol delete vote.svg It has been a full week, and the close paraphrasing issues have not been addressed, the article is still tagged with NPOV, and a QPQ has not been done. I wish the nominator had been more responsive, but under the circumstances, this article is ineligible for inclusion in DYK. BlueMoonset (talk) 16:46, 12 September 2012 (UTC)