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The result was delete. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 03:09, 9 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Action of 1678 (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log | edits since nomination)

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The article cannot be verified. The supposed Action of 1678 involved Cornelis Evertsen the Younger who had an encounter with François Louis Rousselet de Châteaurenault near Ushant. De Jonge´s History of Dutch Seafaring on p.645 gives an account of the voyage, see https://www.dbnl.org/arch/jong102gesc06_01/pag/jong102gesc06_01.pdf No action in the Strait of Gibraltar is mentioned. I think it is time to delete this article. Ruud Buitelaar (talk) 02:57, 2 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: History and Military. Ruud Buitelaar (talk) 02:57, 2 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Events, France, and Netherlands. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 09:29, 2 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete without prejudice to creation of a proper article (if one can be written), but if the action happened, I would have expected it to have a name, not a year. Peterkingiron (talk) 18:50, 3 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete - I can't find anything either, so appears to fail WP:V per above. 78.26 _{(spin me / revolutions)} 01:30, 4 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete: Unsourced, and tells the reader nothing. 𝕱𝖎𝖈𝖆𝖎𝖆 (talk) 21:11, 8 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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