Template:Did you know nominations/Operation Fish

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The result was: promoted by Panyd^{The muffin is not subtle} 20:51, 11 April 2013 (UTC).

Operation Fish

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• ... that Operation Fish during World War II involved the largest physical movement of wealth up to that time?

Created by Esemono (talk). Self nominated at 09:02, 22 March 2013 (UTC).

• Reviewed: St. Joseph Catholic Church (San Antonio, Texas)
• Will review tonight. --Gibmetal 77^{talk 2 me} 12:36, 22 March 2013 (UTC)
  • Date, OK. Article and hook size, OK. AGF on offline sources. Good to go. --Gibmetal 77^{talk 2 me} 23:02, 22 March 2013 (UTC)

• Sorry, but the hook is vague rather than hooky. Can't you come up with something better?
• There is also close paraphrasing from the one source available online:
• Your version: not a single piece of the cargo went missing nor was any information about the operation ever leaked
• Source: not a single piece of the cargo went missing. And although no one was required to give an oath of secrecy, no information was ever leaked.Yoninah (talk) 14:04, 27 March 2013 (UTC)

• Cleaned up the paraphrasing. -- Esemono (talk) 23:21, 27 March 2013 (UTC)

• New ALT hooks have been suggested -- Esemono (talk) 08:49, 28 March 2013 (UTC)

• ALT1 ... that during WWII Operation Fish involved convoys of treasure ships moving the largest physical amount of wealth up to that point?
• ALT2 ... that Operation Fish involved convoys of treasure ships moving all of the United Kingdom's wealth to Canada?

• Thank you for cleaning up the close paraphrasing. What about something more specific to draw people in?
• ALT3: ... that in WWII's top-secret Operation Fish, the United Kingdom shipped billions of dollars in gold and securities to Canada, and not one ship was lost?
• ALT4: ... that in WWII's top-secret Operation Fish, the United Kingdom shipped billions of dollars in gold and securities to Canada right under Hitler's nose? Yoninah (talk) 14:45, 28 March 2013 (UTC)

• Fine by me. New ALT hooks have been suggested -- Esemono (talk) 14:57, 28 March 2013 (UTC)
• Thank you. Could another reviewer please OK either ALT3 or ALT4? Yoninah (talk) 15:12, 28 March 2013 (UTC)

• Checked the online source with Dcoetzee's Duplication Detector and Brewer's book (pp. 60-62 were available on Amazon). After some small edits, I must WP:AGF about the other sources. I approve ALT3 because it's short enough and more accurate. - tucoxn\^talk 14:49, 11 April 2013 (UTC)