Template:Did you know nominations/Battle of the Straits

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 Montanabw^(talk) 05:20, 21 February 2016 (UTC)

Battle of the Straits

(

• Back to T:TDYK
• Article history

)

• ... that in the Battle of the Straits in 965, the Fatimids employed divers to tie ropes to the Byzantine ships, on which incendiary devices were then hurled against them?

• Reviewed: Tibs the Great

Created by Cplakidas (talk). Self-nominated at 18:53, 31 January 2016 (UTC).

• Earwig's tool shows the only correspondence is the titles of references, long enough, created soon enough. Hook fact cited to offline sources. QPQ not done yet, has it just not been listed? Also, in footnote 12 - what is PmbZ? Needs the QPQ to be good to go. Ealdgyth - Talk 17:23, 9 February 2016 (UTC)

• Hi Ealdgyth, I clean forgot about the QPQ for this one. Will begin looking for one now. Constantine ✍ 08:28, 13 February 2016 (UTC)
• QPQ done. Constantine ✍ 08:47, 13 February 2016 (UTC)

• Good to go! Ealdgyth - Talk 15:38, 15 February 2016 (UTC)