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Bandung Sea of Fire

  • ... that in March 1946, Indonesian nationalist forces burned half the city of Bandung and evacuated at least 200,000 civilians in a scorched earth move? Source: Newsinger, John (23 June 2016). "A forgotten war: British intervention in Indonesia 1945-46". Race & Class. 30 (4): 51–66. doi:10.1177/030639688903000404.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link), p62

5x expanded by Juxlos (talk). Self-nominated at 15:32, 20 July 2019 (UTC).

  • Template:Re Symbol question.svg Expanded newly enough, long enough (1100 bytes -> 12k bytes of text, more than 5x), and largely within policy. Written in neutral manner, well-referenced (I'm glad to see mostly academic sources), no copyvio found and decent enough prose. Content and reference wise I believe this might even go for GA, but you need to clean up and improve the prose structure first. Hook checks out with the ref, and is interesting. QPQ is in order. I suggest mentioning the British somewhere in the hook, as it might draw people's attention more than just an Indonesian forces burning its own town. HaEr48 (talk) 12:18, 23 July 2019 (UTC)
Template:Re Then maybe ALT1: ... that in March 1946, Indonesian nationalist forces burned half the city of Bandung and evacuated at least 200,000 civilians in a scorched earth move, denying the city section to the British? Juxlos (talk) 22:41, 23 July 2019 (UTC)
Template:Re How about this slightly shorter version? HaEr48 (talk) 23:46, 24 July 2019 (UTC)
  • ALT2: ... that in 1946, Indonesian nationalist forces burned half the city of Bandung and evacuated at least 200,000 civilians, preventing the British from capturing the city intact?
Symbol confirmed.svg Good to go then with ALT2. HaEr48 (talk) 18:18, 25 July 2019 (UTC)