Talk:Mobile Defence Corps

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... that the role of the British Army's Mobile Defence Corps was to carry out rescue work in the aftermath of a nuclear attack?

Source: "In 1955 the MDC was intended to provide the able-bodied manpower to drive any post-attack rescue effort" from: Grant, M. (12 November 2009). After The Bomb: Civil Defence and Nuclear War in Britain, 1945-68. Springer. p. 129. ISBN 978-0-230-27404-4.

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Moved to mainspace by Dumelow (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 918 past nominations.

Dumelow (talk) 13:19, 2 May 2025 (UTC).[reply]

Approved. Article was recently moved to mainspace, and is generally in good nick. It is fully cited to reasonable sources: some are primary rather than academic, which is not ideal, but they are all government or similarly official documents which meet the relatively low WP:RS bar required here. There are no evident plagiarism, BLP or copyvio concerns: at one point, our summary of Hansard tacks very closely to Hansard itself, but I think we're on the right side of the line. QPQ is done. The hook is cited and checks out; it is reasonably interesting, but perhaps some ALTs would be helpful. UndercoverClassicist ^T·C 17:07, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]