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A fact from Cobra King (tank) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 9 August 2020 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Cobra King (pictured) was the first tank to break the Siege of Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2020/August. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Cobra King (tank).

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Did you know nomination

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) 10:55, 4 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Cobra King shortly after battling into the Bastogne perimeter

... that Cobra King (pictured), first tank to break the Siege of Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge, was destroyed in the controversial Task Force Baum raid but found and restored more than 50 years later? (Source: There isn't exactly one source that exactly says all this completely clearly; [1] is closest. [2] Gives a clearer ref for "first tank to break the seige", and there are clearer refs still.)
- ALT1:... that the derelict hulk of Cobra King (pictured), the first tank to break the Siege of Bastogne, was identified in 2008, refurbished, and is now at the National Museum of the United States Army? (Source: same)
- ALT2:... that Cobra King (pictured) was the first tank to break the Siege of Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge? (Source: same)

Reviewed: No. I am working on Template:Did you know nominations/Korean folklore but this a long article covering a very large topic and there is much to be done.

Created by Herostratus (talk). Self-nominated at 20:18, 5 July 2020 (UTC).[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
Freely licensed: Used in article: Clear at 100px:

QPQ: - Not done
Overall: I enjoyed this article! It is interesting, well written, new enough, long enough and well cited. ALT2 is the best hook - it's concise, interesting and notable. The main hook includes a statement that is disputed by historians i.e. that the Cobra King was destroyed in the Baum raid, so I would leave that out as controversial. ALT1 is okay but the fact of its restoration and current location is not particularly unusual. So I'm striking out the first two and am happy to approve this once the QPQ is done. Bermicourt (talk) 10:15, 25 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Bermicourt: Looking at Template:Did you know nominations/Korean folklore, I think the QPQ is done. --evrik ^(talk) 18:38, 2 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- The QPQ is certainly well under way, so happy to tick this one off. Bermicourt (talk) 18:50, 2 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]