Talk:Blockade of Biafra

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The result was: promoted by Bruxton talk 22:36, 7 December 2023 (UTC)

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Starving child during the blockade

• ... that at least a million civilians died as a result of the blockade of Biafra (pictured)? Source: https://doi.org/10.1080%2F01436597.2023.2182283
  • ALT1: ... that photographs of children starving because of the blockade of Biafra (pictured) attracted global attention? Source: https://doi.org/10.1017%2FS1816383113000428
  • ALT2: ... that the blockade of Biafra (pictured) was not internationally recognized as a genocide despite Nigerian officials admitting to starving civilians? Source: https://doi.org/10.1080%2F01436597.2023.2182283 Moses 2021
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Statue of Alexander Wood ‎

Created by Buidhe (talk). Self-nominated at 23:51, 3 November 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Blockade of Biafra; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.

• Comment only (not a review): Important topic for stand-alone article, but it needs to be harmonized/coordinated with the info at Nigerian Civil War#Biafra surrounded, which is a better article. The blockade article feels redundant the way it is now! The more detailed info at the civil war should be moved the blockade article, and the civil war article should be a summary with a {{Main}} link to the blockade article. -- P 1 9 9  ✉ 15:41, 6 November 2023 (UTC)
  • As far as I can tell the main article does not have a ton of information on the blockade. This article certainly contains a lot of info that is not duplicated elsewhere on Wikipedia. (t · c) buidhe 17:57, 6 November 2023 (UTC)

• Article is new enough, long enough, written neutrally, and appears to be free of copyvios. The audio file is in the public domain. QPQ has been done. I have questions regarding the hooks, though, and one content comment:

• The date of the blockade should be provided in the first sentence of the lead. Currently, the lead does not state when this was.
• I like the first hook the most, but it is not directly stated in the article. The article has this: By the end of the war, the majority of the 3 million Biafran casualties were Igbo children who died of starvation – But this seems to refer to the entire civil war, not only to the blockade, and this does not become clear and needs to be clarified. While it seems reasonable to infer that "more than a million" died because of the blockade, are there really no actual published estimates of the blockade-specific casualties?
• (note that this is my first DYK review, so apologies if I forgot something). Jens Lallensack (talk) 03:09, 18 November 2023 (UTC)

• Jens Lallensack Thanks for your review. I edited the article and added additional sources. (t · c) buidhe 04:14, 18 November 2023 (UTC)

DYK approved. Changes look good, thanks! Jens Lallensack (talk) 04:36, 18 November 2023 (UTC)

@Buidhe: I think the image is licensed-it is rather depressing though. My comment before promotion is that the hook should probably say "one million" instead of "a million". Bruxton (talk) 22:34, 7 December 2023 (UTC)

• ALT0a: ... that at least one million civilians died as a result of the blockade of Biafra (pictured)? Bruxton (talk) 22:34, 7 December 2023 (UTC)

• No objection, thanks for promoting it! (t · c) buidhe 23:09, 7 December 2023 (UTC)