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The result was: rejected by reviewer, closed by Narutolovehinata5 talk 02:07, 19 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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... that during World War II, fighter pilot Richard A. Peterson shot down and killed a parachuting German pilot after the same pilot shot at parachuting American bomber crews? Source: The P-51 Mustang Pilot that Killed a German in his Parachute - Brutal True Story of Richard Peterson (TJ3 History - YouTube)
Interview with Richard Peterson (excerpt of the documentary where he describes that incident - YouTube)
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5x expanded by Toadboy123 (talk). Self-nominated at 09:21, 13 December 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Richard A. Peterson (aviator); consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.[reply]

Toadboy123, dykcheck shows this as not being eligible based on 5x expansion. Will you expand on the eligibility of this article for DYK? « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 18:52, 15 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
- @Gonzo fan2007: According to the article's previous history, it did not have sufficient word limit to be featured in DYK. From December 12, I placed the article under construction tag and expanded it. Following completion, the article was allowed to be in DYK (5x expansion) due to attaining the precise word limit. Regarding the eligibility of the article, what am I supposed to elaborate on regarding the DYK? - Toadboy123 (talk) 22:54, 15 December 2023 (UTC)
  - Toadboy123 The article needs to be expanded by a factor of 5 to be eligible for DYK. The version you pointed to (when you started editing it 3 days ago) had a prose size of 1,204 characters with 201 words of readable prose. The version today has 3,595 characters with 626 words of readable prose. By either value, you are looking about 3x expansion, which is well short of the 5x expansion required by DYK criteria. So could you explain why you think this meets the criteria? « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 23:02, 15 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    - @Gonzo fan2007: I wasn't aware of that. I thought 5x expansion was expanding the article as long it attained the word limit to be featured in DYK. So, in that case, is the article not considered for DYK? - Toadboy123 (talk) 23:19, 15 December 2023 (UTC)
      - No, in that case it is not eligible, unless you can expand it more or bring it to WP:GA. « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 23:43, 15 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]