Template:Did you know nominations/Joint United States Public Affairs Office

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: rejected by North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 09:30, 30 January 2017 (UTC)
Of note is that contrary to the review provided herein, the nominator is QPQ review exempt per QPQ Check results. However, despite the nominator being notified about concerns herein, they have not been addressed and the nominator has not edited using their account since 22 December 2016. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 09:30, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

Joint United States Public Affairs Office

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• ... that the daily briefings on operations of the Vietnam War held by the Joint United States Public Affairs Office were referred to as the "Five O'Clock Follies" due to their inaccurate and incomplete reports on battles and exaggerated body counts? Source: Kutler, Stanley I. (1996). Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. p. 195. ISBN 0-13-276932-8. OCLC 32970270.

Created/expanded by Acfrue (talk). Self-nominated at 19:52, 8 December 2016 (UTC).

• There are some sourcing issues with this article that need to be fixed. There's a citation needed tag at the bottom of the second paragraph of the "Operations" section, and the Barger source is missing page numbers. The intro also needs to be a bit more comprehensive as it isn't really a summary of the article as it currently stands. In addition, the nominator needs to do a quid pro quo review of another DYK nomination as required by the DYK rules. Other than that, the article was new enough at the time of the nomination, it's long enough, reliably sourced, and the hook is both interesting and reliably sourced. Prioryman (talk) 12:29, 12 January 2017 (UTC)

• Striking the hook as far too long per DYK rules: it is 245 characters, far above the absolute maximum of 200. Please submit an ALT hook that is significantly shorter. Thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 14:42, 19 January 2017 (UTC)

• Nominator has been inactive since December 22, and has not responded to two separate talk-page pings over the past two weeks. Marking for closure. BlueMoonset (talk) 05:44, 27 January 2017 (UTC)