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Minerva Armored Car

Man looking at an explosion in an armoured car

  • ... that Lieutenant Charles Henkart, creator of the Belgian Minerva Armored Car (pictured), one of the first armoured cars in WWI, was ambushed by the Germans and killed in one of his cars?

Created/expanded by Esemono (talk). Self nominated at 08:30, 5 December 2014 (UTC).

  • Hook is interesting and length is fine. Hook is cited to offline source, so good faith is assumed. However:
    • Article is long enough now and has been expanded five times by the nominator, but a substantial part of the article, the first two sections, is about armoured cars generally with only one sentence on the Minerva. The two general sections are longer than the third section and the article would not meet the 5x expansion limit requirement if they were omitted.
    • It would be useful to know when and where Lieutenant Henkart was killed as this is not given in the article. It would also be useful to know when the armoured car was first manufactured. At the moment, the article states just that Henkart arranged the conversion in 1914 and that they were in use by August 1914. It would also be interesting to know where construction continued after Antwerp was captured by the German Army in October 1914 and how many of the armoured cars were built?
    • The source and copyright status of the image is unclear. The Wikimedia Commons page assumes that it was published more than 70 years ago (which may be true), but gives no proof of publication before 1944, the source being a Flickr page.--DavidCane (talk) 23:48, 6 December 2014 (UTC)
  • Would love to add that information but couldn't find it anywhere. Although I was able to find when he died. Can this pass without that info? -- Esemono (talk) 23:07, 7 December 2014 (UTC)
    • Symbol redirect vote 4.svg It's an improvement that we have a date for his death, but I think we still have a problem with the expansion and the image. Second opinion anyone?--DavidCane (talk) 01:17, 9 December 2014 (UTC)