Template:Did you know nominations/Ramped Cargo Lighter

Ramped Cargo Lighter

 * ... that although the Ramped Cargo Lighter was used extensively in World War II, afterwards many were destroyed by friendly fire?
 * Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Sooty Oystercatcher

Created/expanded by AmesJussellR (talk). Nominated by Gilderien (talk) at 17:42, 2 September 2012 (UTC)



I believe this nomination is somewhat inappropriate - Friendly fire definition "inadvertent firing towards one's own" doesn't fit here. Following the war, so many landing craft were surplus to needs and were consciously targeted and destroyed - particularly in the SEAC. Thanks for the kind nomination, but I think choosing a different DYK might be better. AmesJussellR (talk) 18:56, 2 September 2012 (UTC)
 * ALT1 "... that although the Ramped Cargo Lighter was used extensively in World War II, afterwards many were surplus to requirements and sunk by their own side?"-- Gilderien Chat&#124;List of good deeds 01:16, 3 September 2012 (UTC)


 * Symbol question.svg A couple of issues need to be taken care of:
 * 1) Some paragraphs need sourcing
 * 2) Clean up the bare URLs
 * Maile66 (talk) 12:37, 16 September 2012 (UTC)
 * I have cleaned up the bare URLs, and will sourcing soon (next day or so).-- Gilderien Chat&#124;List of good deeds 13:16, 21 September 2012 (UTC)


 * All the paragraphs except one are explicitly sourced and that one is credited to "Yugoslav sources"...not being the author I don't know what these were, and will ask them to add it, but otherwise it meets all the criteria.-- Gilderien Chat&#124;List of good deeds 13:32, 1 October 2012 (UTC)
 * There are actually three paragraphs that have not been sourced: the second in Origins, the second in Design, and the third in the Far East section of Service History. (I think the introductory Service History paragraph is covered by the individual sections below.) This is after an edit by the author on October 3. Can these be addressed? It seems a shame to not have the article pass DYK, but this is a standard requirement. BlueMoonset (talk) 15:14, 13 October 2012 (UTC)
 * I found a reference for one, and removed the other two. If I find more information I will add them back in but otherwise the criteria are satisfied.-- Gilderien Chat&#124;List of good deeds 17:40, 13 October 2012 (UTC)
 * There's still an unfixed bare-url reference. —David Eppstein (talk) 23:52, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
 * I'm probably being really stupid but I can't see a bare URL anywhere?-- Gilderien Chat&#124;List of good deeds 17:42, 19 October 2012 (UTC)
 * 15. ^ 140.194.76.129/publications/eng-pamphlets/EP_870-1-8/a-a.pdf. More generally (although this goes beyond the DYK rules) several other references are missing important information. In reference 8, who is the publisher of the image? In references 1, 10, and 19, what is the title of the newspaper story? —David Eppstein (talk) 17:58, 19 October 2012 (UTC)
 * I've corrected the bare url and added the image publisher but not the newspaper article as I did not add those references.-- Gilderien Chat&#124;List of good deeds 18:29, 19 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Pictogram voting keep.svg Good to go with ALT1 hook. I'm assuming good faith on the sources, most of which are offline. —David Eppstein (talk) 21:14, 19 October 2012 (UTC)