Template:Did you know nominations/SS Oropesa

SS Oropesa

 * ... that SS Oropesa sank after being hit with a torpedo by GS U-96 (1940)?

Created by Motacilla (talk). Nominated by Tentinator (talk) at 16:45, 17 December 2013 (UTC).


 * Symbol question.svg Article is new, long enough, no copyvios detected, has inline citations throughout. However there is no citation immediately following a sentence which contains all the hook facts (in this case name of ship, torpedoing, name of submarine), as required by DYK rules. NinaGreen (talk) 00:54, 18 December 2013 (UTC)
 * The article has multiple citations for the name of the ship. It also has good citations to identify the attacking submarine and establish that it hit Oropesa with three torpedoes. It is unremarkable that a British passenger liner was torpedoed in the Battle of the Atlantic, or that it took three torpedoes to sink a ship of this size. What is less common is that a decade earlier Oropesa had carried two future kings across the Atlantic: Edward, Prince of Wales and Albert, Duke of York, who later became Edward VIII and George VI respectively. Does that help? Best wishes, Motacilla (talk) 01:08, 18 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Symbol confirmed.svg Just for your information for future DYK nominations, the DYK rules require that a citation be at the end of the sentence which contains the hook facts, not just at the end of a paragraph containing them. I've added the type of submarine to the sentence in the lead which covered the rest of the hook facts. The hook facts are all now covered in one sentence, and that sentence has a citation at the end of it, as required by DYK rules. The nomination is good to go! NinaGreen (talk) 03:12, 18 December 2013 (UTC)


 * Thanks. I've applied a "GS" template to the link you added. Best wishes, Motacilla (talk) 13:06, 18 December 2013 (UTC)
 * It wasn't the two kings on the journey, it was Prince George, Duke of Kent, not George VI who accompanied Edward. DrKiernan (talk) 14:52, 18 December 2013 (UTC)