Template:Did you know nominations/1st Armoured Division (United Kingdom)

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The result was: promoted by BorgQueen (talk) 15:27, 19 March 2023 (UTC)

1st Armoured Division (United Kingdom)

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1st Armoured Division rhinoceros insignia

... that the 1st Armoured Division of the British Army chose a white rhinoceros on a black oval as their insignia (pictured)? Source: The design is a white standing rhinoceros on a black oval
- ALT1: ... that in 1944 the 1st Armoured Division (insignia pictured) of the British Army suffered 1,111 casualties in just one month of fighting in Italy? Source: Jackson, William; et al. (2004) [1988]. Victory in the Mediterranean, Part II – June to October 1944. History of the Second World War United Kingdom Military Series. Vol. VI. London: Naval & Military Press. ISBN 978-1-84574-071-9.
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Teleram
- Comment: AGF on ALT1 source as it is offline in the article.

Improved to Good Article status by EnigmaMcmxc (talk) and Baffle gab1978 (talk). Nominated by Bruxton (talk) at 19:27, 19 February 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/1st Armoured Division (United Kingdom); consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: @Bruxton: Good article. Honestly, the first hook is not interesting to me but alt1 is good enough for me to approve in good faith. Onegreatjoke (talk) 20:17, 20 February 2023 (UTC)

The figure should be 1,111. The source gives a table of casualties, which for the 1st Armoured Division says 90 officers and 1,021 other ranks were killed. I assume the article author misread the former number as 900. I have corrected this in the article. Sojourner in the earth (talk) 06:04, 21 February 2023 (UTC)

@Sojourner in the earth: I changed the hook, pinging @Onegreatjoke: to take a look about approving. I have no access to the source so I AGF. Bruxton (talk) 22:29, 21 February 2023 (UTC)

Seems to be fine now. Onegreatjoke (talk) 15:09, 22 February 2023 (UTC)