Template:Did you know nominations/Moultrie Flag

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The result was: rejected by Crisco 1492 (talk) 08:49, 8 January 2012 (UTC)
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Moultrie Flag

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• ... that the Moultrie Flag was used as a rallying point in the defense of Sullivan's Island, saving Charleston, South Carolina from conquest by the British in 1776, and went on to become the basis for the flag of South Carolina?

• Comment: Like the Gadsden Flag, this one is periodically dusted off as a rallying point for liberty

Created/expanded by KazVorpal (talk). Self nom at 21:50, 21 December 2011 (UTC)

• Some refs are bare URLs, none have publisher, title, nor retrieve dates.PumpkinSky talk 13:54, 1 January 2012 (UTC)

• Article was created on day of nomination and is just long enough (1774 characters). No obvious copyright violation. However, there are serious problems with the citations. The hook facts don't have inline citations with them, and I question the reliability of the sources that are present. They appear to be webpages with compilations of U.S. history facts, but contain no sources themselves, or refer back to Wikipedia articles.Fryede (talk) 00:55, 4 January 2012 (UTC)