Template:Did you know nominations/Rise of Macedon


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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 05:16, 9 May 2017 (UTC)

Rise of Macedon

 * ... that Philip II of Macedon ((r. 359-336 BC – undefined)) reformed the Ancient Macedonian army and established the Macedonian phalanx before defeating the ancient Greek cit-states of Athens and Thebes at the Battle of Chaeronea (338 BC), forcing these defeated foes into an alliance and federation known as the League of Corinth?
 * ALT1: ... that Philip II of Macedon ((r. 359-336 BC – undefined)), after conquering and uniting most of ancient Greece, was elected by the League of Corinth as commander-in-chief of a planned invasion of the Achaemenid Empire of ancient Persia, yet instead was assassinated and succeeded by his son Alexander the Great?
 * Comment: This bust portrait can be used with either the origin hook or the ALT1 hook.
 * Comment: This bust portrait can be used with either the origin hook or the ALT1 hook.

Improved to Good Article status by PericlesofAthens (talk). Self-nominated at 02:10, 28 March 2017 (UTC).


 * On it.

Thank you for your work on this needful article. If it's already GA, I'm sure the article will mostly be fine, but you need to go through these hooks again. They're both much too verbose and have some hiccups. ("Cit-states"?) Pare them down (e.g., "at the Battle of Chaeronea (338 BC)" could be "at Chaeronea") or come up with something terser and hookier that might grab the attention of people who don't know how cool the Macedonians were or connect to something they do know (e.g., something about the one-eyed Philip setting the stage for Alexander). Send me a message or use a notification template when you've got something for me to look at. — Llywelyn II   08:57, 28 March 2017 (UTC)


 * I have struck the original hooks, since they're both well over the maximum 200 characters (including spaces). I'm proposing a possible ALT2 hook below (184 characters), though I imagine PericlesofAthens will want to propose one or more new ALTs of his own. BlueMoonset (talk) 16:24, 24 April 2017 (UTC)
 * ALT2: ... that Philip II of Macedon (pictured), after conquering and uniting most of ancient Greece, was assassinated while in Aegae for his daughter’s wedding and succeeded by his son Alexander the Great?
 * I'm fine with this. Thanks for revising the hook! Pericles of Athens  Talk 16:26, 24 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Ok. Sorry for delay but will look at this later today. — Llywelyn II   11:40, 27 April 2017 (UTC)
 * , a friendly reminder--since I'm that kind of person. :) Drmies (talk) 04:15, 4 May 2017 (UTC)

New review
 * The article is recent GA at time of nomination:
 * The hook is interesting:
 * The hook is referenced:
 * The hook is below 200 characters:
 * Earwig tool does not reveal any copyright violation:
 * The article follows most other important policies:
 * QPQ exempted:

Good to go.--KAVEBEAR (talk) 19:07, 8 May 2017 (UTC)