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 Hawkeye7 (talk) 20:21, 26 October 2014 (UTC)

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Mahikeng Airport[edit]

• ... that Mahikeng Airport was an air force base and is now trying to become an international airport?

• ALT1:... that Mahikeng Airport's international airport license was removed after failing to comply with various regulations?
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Brandon Poulson

5x expanded by Nathan121212 (talk). Self nominated at 16:25, 11 September 2014 (UTC).

• Sufficiently expanded, meets core content policies. ALT1 was supported by sources, so let's go with that. --Jakob (talk) 16:47, 11 September 2014 (UTC)

Pulled from Queue, reopened; one hook was approved, but another one (that wasn't explivitly approved) promoted, which is making the review process rather useless. Fram (talk) 15:32, 15 September 2014 (UTC)

• @Fram: - who was the promoter? The reviewer did say ALT1. Nathan121212 (talk) 15:46, 15 September 2014 (UTC)
  • Hawkeye7. Fram (talk) 15:51, 15 September 2014 (UTC)

• Striking the original hook, leaving the approved ALT1 intact. Fram, did you find any issues with ALT1? I'm wondering why you didn't simply substitute the approved hook for the unapproved one. BlueMoonset (talk) 17:01, 15 September 2014 (UTC)

• A hook should be checked by the reviewer and the promotor (and the nominator of course). If either one is missing, it should go back. Fram (talk) 17:18, 15 September 2014 (UTC)

• ALT1 is in the article and supported by the cited inline source; expansion was done on nomination date and is, as noted, sufficient; spotcheck of three sources reveals no close paraphrasing. Restoring approval. BlueMoonset (talk) 17:55, 15 September 2014 (UTC)
  • The main hook was not struck at the time, and when I double-checked, I found it was correct and sourced. However ALT1 is not supported; the licence was not removed, it was merely suspended on 16 April 2001, and was renewed on 27 April 2001.[1] How about:

• ALT2:... that Mahikeng Airport's airport license was suspended after failing to comply with various regulations? Hawkeye7 (talk) 21:46, 16 September 2014 (UTC)

• I quite like ALT3: ... that efforts are underway to help Mahikeng Airport, a former air force base, regain its status as an international airport? by User:EEng - Nathan121212 (talk) 04:21, 17 September 2014 (UTC)

• New review needed for the proposed (and unstruck) ALT hooks above. BlueMoonset (talk) 04:56, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

• Confirm ALT3. ~ R.T.G 12:29, 26 October 2014 (UTC)