Talk:Operation Spring High

Did you know nomination

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The result was: promoted by Zzz plant (talk) 11:46, 6 September 2026 (UTC)

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• ... that during Operation Spring High, American aircraft attacked a fake target made of bamboo that lured them into a trap?

• Source: "...photos disclosed that there was a dummy missile in site 6, placed there as a trap, and that site 7 was empty." from page 165 of Gradual Failure: The Air War over North Vietnam, 1965-1966, the rest of the chapter provides more context that one quote can not sum up

"...constructed fake missiles made of bamboo" from page 167 of Victory in Vietnam: A History of the People's Army of Vietnam, 1954–1975

• • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Mrityunjoy Banerjee (economist)

Created by GGOTCC (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 23 past nominations.

GGOTCC 02:23, 18 August 2026 (UTC).

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Article was created and nominated on August 18 and is comfortably over the minimum prose length (5,588 bytes of readable prose or 902 words). It is adequately cited throughout, neutral, and I found no apparent close paraphrasing or other copyright concerns. (Earwig found a 3.8% similarity with the closest checked source and no significant overlap with the others; spot-checking of the accessible source text likewise found no apparent close paraphrasing.) The hook is concise and interesting and the sources support both the dummy missile being placed as a trap and its construction from bamboo, and the hook fact is cited directly in the article. QPQ has been completed. Good to go. Alekjds (talk) 18:00, 29 August 2026 (UTC)