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The result was: promoted by Victuallers (talk) 16:58, 6 May 2015 (UTC)

Surin Elephant Round-up

 * ... that 100 soldiers compete against a single elephant in a tug of war during the Surin Elephant Round-up, but the elephant wins?


 * ALT1:... that bull elephants walk over their Mahout during the Surin Elephant Round-up?
 * ALT2:... that Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore called the Surin Elephant Round-up (pictured) "The Greatest Hunt in the World " when she wrote about it in National Geographic?
 * Comment: Saved the article from AFd, would be awesome to get it to DYK
 * Comment: Saved the article from AFd, would be awesome to get it to DYK

5x expanded by FreeatlastChitchat (talk). Self-nominated at 10:56, 17 April 2015 (UTC).




 * Symbol voting keep.svg Given the technicality of this subject, it is obvious that we can find the located source right after searching at least 9 exact words from this article on any search engine. Since ALT2 has been source and verifiable, I believe that we should go with that.  Occult Zone  (Talk • Contributions • Log) 16:06, 3 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Symbol confirmed.svg I'm not sure what OccultZone's comment is supposed to mean. The problem wasn't with the ALT2 hook, but rather copyright violations in the article via close paraphrasing.  That said, numerous edits by  have fixed the paraphrasing problems.  Thanks! We are good to go for ALT2 which is directly cited and has been verified by the provided inline citation. --ThaddeusB (talk) 16:24, 4 May 2015 (UTC)
 * I was mostly clarifying how there were evidences of close paraphrasing before and mostly due to the usage of particular technical terms. Fixed now, so yes we are done here.  Occult Zone  (Talk • Contributions • Log) 16:36, 4 May 2015 (UTC)