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too verbose and have some hiccups. ("Cit-states"?) Pare them down (e.g., "at the Battle of Chaeronea (338 BC)" could be "at Chaeronea") or come up with something terser and hookier that might grab the attention of people who don't know how cool the Macedonians were or connect to something they do
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know (e.g., something about the one-eyed Philip setting the stage for Alexander). Send me a message or use a notification template when you've got something for me to look at. — 
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I have struck the original hooks, since they're both well over the maximum 200 characters (including spaces). I'm proposing a possible ALT2 hook below (184 characters), though I imagine
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for your work on this needful article. If it's already GA, I'm sure the article will mostly be fine, but you need to go through these hooks again. They're both
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The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below.
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Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as
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Ok. Sorry for delay but will look at this later today. — 
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will want to propose one or more new ALTs of his own.
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A bust of Philip II of Macedon (r. 359–336 BC– )
Philip II
Macedon
Philip II
Macedon
Ancient Macedonian army
Macedonian phalanx
ancient Greek
Athens
Thebes
Battle of Chaeronea (338 BC)
forcing these defeated foes into an alliance
federation

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