Template:Did you know nominations/Ron Capps


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The result was: promoted by 97198 (talk) 05:59, 13 September 2014 (UTC)

Ron Capps

 * ... that Ron Capps served in five war zones in ten years before founding the Veterans Writing Project?
 * Reviewed: Parsurameswar Temple

Created by EvanRo (talk). Self nominated at 19:38, 30 July 2014 (UTC).


 * I think there's a WP:N problem here. Can another editor take a look? EEng (talk) 02:27, 31 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Can someone look at it in light of WP:AUTHOR? TeriEmbrey (talk) 16:56, 6 August 2014 (UTC)
 * I think it's acceptable. His notability is borderline, but I think it passes. I'll take a look at the rest of it to see if it passes DYK standards. Bali88 (talk) 18:03, 14 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Some of the sources are offline, but the ones that are online do not appear to have any close paraphrasing or copy vio in the article. Article is long enough, new enough, Hook is cited and interesting. Inline citations. No BLP violations. Neutral. I do have one question though before I pass the hook...are those really considered separate wars instead of just different countries where he served? I'm not a military person myself, so I'm not sure how the terminology works. Bali88 (talk) 18:27, 14 August 2014 (UTC)
 * That's the subtitle of his book, so if needed it would work to simply quote it. A couple of those are more typically termed "conflicts" rather than wars, but "war" is used by enough sources that it's probably okay. Nikkimaria (talk) 15:57, 9 September 2014 (UTC)
 * If a combat veteran may intercede here....The very definition of "war" as combat between two nations or sides has become pretty ambiguous and obsolete. It seems to me that a very slight alteration in the hook removes dubiety about reliability. Instead of "five wars", try "five war zones".Georgejdorner (talk) 23:25, 9 September 2014 (UTC)
 * I'm fine with that change. I edited it to say war zones.EvanRo (talk) 20:34, 10 September 2014 (UTC)

- Alright. Some of the sources are offline, but the ones that are online do not appear to have any close paraphrasing or copy vio in the article. Article is long enough, new enough, Hook is cited and interesting. Inline citations. No BLP violations. Neutral. Good to go. Bali88 (talk) 21:01, 10 September 2014 (UTC)