Template:Did you know nominations/Flare gun

The following discussion is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: rejected by BlueMoonset (talk) 06:45, 23 October 2012 (UTC)

Flare gun

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... that a flare was fired from a Very light gun into a D.F.W. two–seater, destorying the aircraft after it had been forced to land, on 19 October 1918 during the Sinai and Palestine Campaign pursuit to Aleppo?

Comment: The flare gun was fired from a No. 1 Squadron RAAF aircraft after the German pilot and observer had moved to safety.

Created/expanded by [[User:|User:]] ([[User talk:|talk]]). Nominated by RoslynSKP (talk) at 03:52, 17 October 2012 (UTC)

Two big problems jump out with just a quick look. First, there is no link to the nominated article in the hook (Wikipedia:Did you know#hookformat). Second, since August 9, 2012 the nominated article has only been expanded from 2290 characters of readable prose to 2784 characters (1.22x). DYK requires a 5x expansion for articles that have not been created in the last 5 days (See Wikipedia:Did you know/Supplementary guidelines#Supplementary article length rules for information on how to calculate article length and size of recent expansion). --Allen3 ^talk 16:15, 17 October 2012 (UTC)

I've added the link, but I quite understand that the expansion of the article was very small and clearly does not fit your criteria. Nevermind, I just thought it was an interesting thing to have happened and possibly a DYK. Thanks anyway, --Rskp (talk) 04:45, 18 October 2012 (UTC)

Neither new nor expanded. Schwede 66 09:53, 21 October 2012 (UTC)