Template:Did you know nominations/Micronations and the Search for Sovereignty

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The result was: withdrawn by nominator, closed by Theleekycauldron (talk) 15:33, 5 July 2023 (UTC)

Micronations and the Search for Sovereignty

Improved to Good Article status by LunaEatsTuna (talk). Nominated by Onegreatjoke (talk) at 03:08, 13 May 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Micronations and the Search for Sovereignty; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.

  • Starting this review. Ktin (talk) 04:28, 11 June 2023 (UTC)
General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems

Hook eligibility:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Article meets all eligibility criteria. Surprised that no one has picked this up for review close to a month after the nomination. Re: the sourcing for the hook, the journal link draws on a feature review by a reviewer (academic) in the journal. Specifically, it draws on these two lines I presume -- Despite the increasing number of articles regarding micronations being published, thereis a dearth of books regarding this topic. Therefore, Hobbs & Williams’ Micronations-and-the-Search-for-Sovereignty (202)shouldbewelcomed as a building block for research into micronations as it provides an in depth examination of this phenomenon.. Two questions to the nominator: Does this review of the book by an academic reviewer suffice to say that this is one of the earliest books on the topic? Also, I am good with this hook, but, can we do something here to increase its appeal to a relatively lay audience? I will defer to the nominator on the second question on interestingness. Nice work. Ktin (talk) 04:47, 11 June 2023 (UTC)

Withdraw. Onegreatjoke (talk) 01:02, 5 July 2023 (UTC)