Template:Did you know nominations/Curtis Culwell Center attack

The following 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: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 09:03, 6 July 2015 (UTC)

Curtis Culwell Center attack

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• ... that the two gunmen attacked the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland, Texas, until they were fatally shot during action?

• ALT1:... that two gunmen, who were also roommates in Phoenix, Arizona, attacked the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland, Texas, until they were fatally shot during action?
• ALT2:... that before they were fatally shot during action, two roommates from Phoenix, Arizona, attacked the exhibit of images of Muhammad at the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland, Texas?
• Reviewed: Utica, New York
• Comment: There were so many editors of this article mainly because the topic brought a lot of attention to many editors. I can credit just one editor because he created this article. Please do not hesitate to credit yourself or someone else whom I may have missed. In the meantime, the ITN nomination failed with opposition.

Created by Benbuff91 (talk). Nominated by George Ho (talk) at 00:14, 9 May 2015 (UTC).

• The problem with these hooks is that the answer to "Did you know" these two things is, "Yes, we did know." Can't something interesting be said about this incident, beyond that it happened? EEng (talk) 18:38, 10 May 2015 (UTC)

• ALT3:... that before his death during the attack at the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland, Texas, one of the perpetrators had history of minor charges such as misdemeanor assault?
• ALT4:... that after the attack at the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland, Texas, a mother of one of the perpetrators said her son was brainwashed and did not blame the police for killing him during the attack?

I'll provide more if none of above pleases you. George Ho (talk) 20:21, 10 May 2015 (UTC)

I am not, and do not wish to be, the All-High DYK Arbiter, but I like ALT4 best by far. I've CEd to remove the attacker's name from the hook -- with the mother still alive I think it's a bit too close to putting her name on WP's main page. EEng (talk) 20:23, 10 May 2015 (UTC)

I copy edited ALT3 for its length. --George Ho (talk) 03:47, 11 May 2015 (UTC)

ALT4 is 202 characters, which is too long. Also, I think it would need to be "the mother"; "a mother" makes it sound like he has more than one, which is not the case here. BlueMoonset (talk) 02:47, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

• ALT5:... that after the attack at the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland, Texas, a mother of one of the attackers said her son was brainwashed and did not blame the police for killing him during the attack? EEng (talk) 04:41, 26 May 2015 (UTC) (I think that's exactly 200)

• ALT4b:... that after the attack at the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland, Texas, the mother of one of the gunmen said her son had been brainwashed and did not blame the police for killing him during the event?

• ALT5 is technically ALT4a. I changed words to reduce characters; instead, it is one character more than ALT5. --George Ho (talk) 08:06, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

• Full review needed. BlueMoonset (talk) 21:16, 2 June 2015 (UTC)

• You could take out "gun" and just make it "attack". Yoninah (talk) 15:05, 23 June 2015 (UTC)

• Took out "gun". George Ho (talk) 17:29, 23 June 2015 (UTC)

• New enough, long enough, neutrally written, well referenced, no close paraphrasing seen. ALT4b hook ref verified and cited inline. I tweaked the hook to avoid the repetition of attack-attackers. QPQ done. ALT4b good to go. Yoninah (talk) 22:12, 5 July 2015 (UTC)