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The result was: promoted by Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 06:04, 1 May 2014 (UTC)

Sasha (dog)

 * ... that the bomb detection dog Sasha is to be posthumously awarded the Dickin Medal, known as the animal's Victoria Cross?
 * Reviewed: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Created by Miyagawa (talk), Gareth E Kegg (talk). Nominated by Miyagawa (talk) at 16:48, 29 April 2014 (UTC).
 * Article - created new on 29 April, so new enough; 3368 characters of readable prose, so long enough; neutral; at least one inline citation to every paragraph; no copy vios detected using duplication detector; assessed as start class.


 * Hook - within length criteria at 119 characters; correctly formatted; correctly cited/supported by ref #5 in final paragraph; and interesting and topical.


 * QPQ done; no image used.

Nice to see these dogs being recognised. SagaciousPhil  -  Chat  05:58, 30 April 2014 (UTC)