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Operation Slapstick has been listed as one of the Warfare good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.

Operation Slapstick is part of the 1st Airborne Division (United Kingdom) series, a good topic. This is identified as among the best series of articles produced by the Wikipedia community. If you can update or improve it, please do so.

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Date	Process	Result
August 15, 2011	Good article nominee	Listed
October 29, 2011	Good topic candidate	Promoted

A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on July 19, 2011.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that Operation Slapstick, part of the Allied invasion of Italy, was only planned after the Italians had offered to let them land unopposed?

Current status: Good article

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Casualties

This article says 120 men of the 6th (Royal Welch) Btn died on HMS Adbdiel; their article (here) says it was 58. Which is correct? Xyl 54 (talk) 13:15, 24 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Redone article with refs to reliable sources. Jim Sweeney (talk) 14:15, 8 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]