Template:Did you know nominations/1999 Matamoros standoff

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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:31, 17 January 2019 (UTC)

1999 Matamoros standoff

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• ... that two U.S. agents were nearly killed by a drug cartel in Mexico in 1999?

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Eight Precepts
• Comment: I will be out of town from 15 December to 2 January with no access to Wikipedia. I can take care of any issues that may arise from this nomination when I'm back. Thank you.

Moved to mainspace by MX (talk). Self-nominated at 15:38, 13 December 2018 (UTC).

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: Looks good to go. I still don't get how you're able to find such topics to write over 30K of prose about! :-) SkyGazer 512 ^{Oh no, what did I do this time?} 02:39, 1 January 2019 (UTC)

• @SkyGazer 512: Thank you for the thorough review! Mexico is underrepresented on Wikipedia. I knew about this particular incident for years since it happened in my hometown, but I was suprised it didn't have an article. In my opinion, this is one of the major organized crime events in Mexico prior to the drug war. Had the agents been killed, I'm sure we'd have an article a long time ago (like Kiki's). Cheers, MX (✉ • ✎) 14:02, 1 January 2019 (UTC)

• Yeah, with such detail covering this event in the news it is quite surprising we didn't have this a long time ago. It's a very interesting read.--SkyGazer 512 ^{Oh no, what did I do this time?} 14:33, 1 January 2019 (UTC)