- 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 Yoninah (talk) 21:46, 31 March 2018 (UTC)
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SAM-N-8 Zeus
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that the United States Navy considered using Zeus to arm a battleship?
"The shell-missile was called Zeus...For a time the US Navy considered completing the stillborn battleship Kentucky with quadruple 8in turrets firing Zeus." [1]
- Reviewed: EMD AEM-7
Created by The Bushranger (talk). Self-nominated at 08:37, 21 December 2017 (UTC).
- Suggested alt:
- ALT1: ... that the United States Navy considered calling on Zeus to defend a battleship?
Ceranthor? Gatoclass (talk) 10:28, 13 February 2018 (UTC)
- Gatoclass, I think I like the original better. What distinguishes between the two? ceranthor 00:38, 14 February 2018 (UTC)
- Ceranthor, I'm not sure if you are aware that this nomination has been proposed to run as an April Fools hook. The concept behind the April Fools sets is that hooks are run which appear to be unbelievable but are in fact true. The appearance of unbelievability is usually achieved by carefully crafting the hook so that it appears to be referring to some astonishing fact when the actual fact being referred to is not at all surprising.
- In this particular example, the "astonishing fact" being suggested in the hook is that the US Navy considered invoking the God Zeus to protect a battleship. The problem with the original hook, then, is that people don't "use" Gods, rather they invoke or call upon them to intervene. By employing the word "use", the original hook fails to create the misleading impression in the reader's mind that it is the God Zeus being referred to since people don't "use" Gods. Use of the word "use" in fact basically gives the game away that the "Zeus" being referred to is something other than the God of the same name.