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The result was: rejected by Vanamonde93 (talk) 15:30, 3 August 2020 (UTC)
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Second Battle of Oituz

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  • ... that during the Second Battle of Oituz, Romanian troops attacked Bavarian troops impetuously, to the sound of music? Source: Glaise von Horstenau & Brauner 1932, p. 517
    • ALT1:... that the Second Battle of Oituz ended with a temporary truce to bury the dead? Source: Glaise von Horstenau & Brauner 1932, p. 518.
  • Reviewed: Did you know nominations/The Who by Numbers Tour
  • Comment: Thanks to the help of various other editors who provided assistance in translation, bug fixes and copy editing, but first to User:Certes for bringing the issue up at WP:MILHIST. If you insist I can provide quotes and translations from the German text (which is available online anyway), or you can just AGF that there's been enough eyes on this that it should be fine.

Converted from a redirect by RandomCanadian (talk). Self-nominated at 01:28, 28 June 2020 (UTC).

General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems

Hook eligibility:

  • Cited: Yes
  • Interesting: Yes
  • Other problems: No - The first hook uses POV language "impetuously"; in the past, it was not unusual to attack with music. The second hook is also not terribly unusual phenomenon in warfare.
QPQ: Done.

Overall: buidhe 21:55, 28 June 2020 (UTC)

@Buidhe: It's not my language it's that of the source (the foreign - "enemy" - official history: they take note of it in this particular instance, which probably makes it a remarkable event). And it is not that far in the past: WWI, with artillery and machine guns... Anyway, I have no source or knowledge that says that this was common practice (save, maybe, for the Scottish) in Romania or generally in European armies at the time (in fact, as far as I know, it was not common at all, and 1916 is a long way removed from the "guns of August" of 1914... And WWI is usually seen as a ceaseless conflict and this certainly wouldn't be the only "temporary truce" in this conflict which is worthy of mention RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 22:26, 28 June 2020 (UTC)
  • @Buidhe: Hi, it's been a month since the nominator responded. Where is this nomination holding? Yoninah (talk) 19:09, 27 July 2020 (UTC)
  • I just don't see either proposed hook as sufficiently interesting for DYK, unless you can be more specific about what type of music was used. Even if you added more context, it's not particularly interesting or unusual. the US Army used drummers until 1917 apparently which is after this event. (t · c) buidhe 19:16, 27 July 2020 (UTC)
  • Nominator has been blocked as an LTA. Review still counts as a QPQ for Buidhe, as far as I'm concerned, but no purpose in keeping the nomination open further. Vanamonde (Talk) 15:30, 3 August 2020 (UTC)|}}
Procedurally reopening as the block was incorrect and overturned on appeal - Whether anybody considers this still timely for purposes of DYK I will leave to somebody else to judge. RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 02:17, 20 January 2021 (UTC)</includeonly>
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