Talk:A.P. Mine No. 3

A fact from A.P. Mine No. 3 appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 30 January 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the A.P. No. 3 landmine could be neutralised with a "safety spider"?

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OK I can see this page was reviewed and did not meet notability guidelines. I have added a second source to meet these guidelines which I will also use to expand the article later Anonymous contributor 1707 (talk) 09:45, 11 January 2021 (UTC).[reply]

Did you know nomination[edit]

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 SL93 (talk) 20:59, 27 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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... that the A.P. No. 3 landmine was developed in British India for use the the Burma campaign of the Second World War? "this mine was developed and produced by the Royal Engineers in India." from: British Explosive Ordnance (PDF). Washington DC: US Department of the Navy. 10 June 1946. p. 413.; Burma campaign comes from Roy (quoted below) who describes teh mines in the Burma campaign section of his book.
- ALT1:... that A.P. No. 3 landmine was designed to be simple, so that infantrymen could lay them without sapper support? "the India Command had small stocks of Hong Kong Pineapple Mines. But these were complicated weapons and could be handled only by the sappers and not by the infantry. Hence, the Anti-Personnel Mine No. 3 was put into production. Every infantry battalion was given 72 such mines." from: Roy, Kaushik (2016). Sepoys against the Rising Sun: The Indian Army in Far East and South-East Asia, 1941–45. BRILL. p. 240. ISBN 978-90-04-30678-3.
- ALT2 ... that the A.P. No. 3 landmine could be neutralised with a "safety spider"?"Assembly and arming: ... remove the wing nut and safety spider ... Neutralization: reverse the process outlined for arming the mine" from: British Explosive Ordnance (PDF). Washington DC: US Department of the Navy. 10 June 1946. p. 413..

Reviewed: to follow
Comment: Expanded from a one sentence sub-stub that was tagged for notability. There's a PD cross-section image but probably not much good at this scale.

5x expanded by Dumelow (talk). Self-nominated at 12:04, 19 January 2021 (UTC).[reply]

Size and date check out. Proper grammar and spelling, just enough references, hook facts interesting and referenced. ALT2 is best (is there any way to explain what the 'safety spider' is beyond a safing device?). Earwig and spot checks indicate CPR/copyvio not a concern. Needs QPQ @Dumelow: and then will be good to go. - The Bushranger _{One ping only} 01:17, 20 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the review The Bushranger, I've carried out a QPQ at Template:Did you know nominations/Benedict Joseph Fenwick. I've tried to clarify how the spider works in the article, hopefully it makes sense! - Dumelow (talk) 10:36, 20 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Should be good to go! - The Bushranger _{One ping only} 18:38, 20 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Wow! I can't believe a fact on an article I started got on the did you know page today! Very proud! Although obviously the actual main content of this article was written by a variety of editors including the featured fact and they deserve the most credit in bringing this article onto the did you know section today.I just made the page and created an infobox(which a lot has been added to by others including the origin and image).For the amazing contributors who made this possible hold your heads up high this is a big achievement that today all going to the main page will see! You have blown me away with the amount of knowledge that people that contributed to this page had on this landmine even with all my research into British WWII mines I have never come across such a vast wealth of information that people then generously put into this article! Anonymous contributor 1707 (talk) 12:43, 30 January 2021 (UTC).[reply]

Thanks Anonymous contributor 1707, I was the one who expanded and nominated this. I found it because it was listed as possibly not notable enough. I would urge you to go through the other land mine articles you created to see if you can expand them with WP:reliable sources to try to establish notability. The more sources you can add the better, particularly if they are published books or articles - Dumelow (talk) 13:53, 30 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]