Template:Did you know nominations/Advanced High Performance Reconnaissance Light Aircraft

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The result was: promoted by Allen3 ^talk 10:24, 10 November 2011 (UTC)

Advanced High Performance Reconnaissance Light Aircraft

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• ... that the AHRLAC is claimed by its designers to be the first fully-indigenous military aircraft developed on the African continent?

• Reviewed: Japanese aircraft carrier Amagi

Created/expanded by The Bushranger (talk), Dodger67 (talk). Nominated by The Bushranger (talk) at 23:17, 28 October 2011 (UTC)

• Article fails update length requirement – there has been no suitable expansion between October 23–28, or on any other applicable date interval. --hydrox (talk) 04:25, 3 November 2011 (UTC)

• Errrr, I beg your pardon? The article has in fact been expanded between October 28 and 30, going from 377 characters to 2349 characters, well over a 5x expansion. DYKs are added to the list on the date the expansion started, which was October 28, and the "Specifications" table is not counted torwards article prose length. - The Bushranger _{One ping only} 04:45, 3 November 2011 (UTC)

• O'RLY? Are we talking about the same article? I see total expansion Sept 27–Oct 30 about x2. --hydrox (talk) 04:50, 3 November 2011 (UTC) Sorry, I am really new to this. I was just looking at article byte size. I will re-review the article in a minute. --hydrox (talk) 04:52, 3 November 2011 (UTC)

• No worries, I made that same mistake myself a couple of times. :) You might want to see about using DYKcheck, it's a handy little gadget. - The Bushranger _{One ping only} 05:04, 3 November 2011 (UTC)

• Second take. Prose update on Oct 27–Oct 30 as confirmed by prosesize.js: 399 to 2417 bytes (6.06x fold increase). Length OK. Multiple, reliable, secondary, independent sources. But.. please excuse my ignorance, but does the hook hold actually? How is fully-indigenous defined here? Quote: "Apart from some light sports aircraft, this is also the first all-South African manned aircraft design since the Denel Rooivalk attack helicopter, which was conceived 26 years ago."AFAIK a helicopter is an aircraft. Hook length OK. Looks OK to me if hook factuality is cleared. --hydrox (talk) 05:22, 3 November 2011 (UTC)

• After I posted the original DYK the claim got muddled when the Rooivalk got brought up. It appears to be the first fully indigenous military fixed-wing aircraft but that's getting a little overly specific for a DYK hook! So how's this? - The Bushranger _{One ping only} 05:00, 4 November 2011 (UTC)

ALT1: ... that the AHRLAC is intended to be a less expensive manned alternative to reconnaissance drones?

Okay, changing review to all clear. Another possibility would have been changing aircraft -> airplane I guess. --hydrox (talk) 14:39, 4 November 2011 (UTC)

Possibly, but we generally try to avoid using "airplane" if possible. ;) - The Bushranger _{One ping only} 18:46, 4 November 2011 (UTC)