The result was: promoted by Cielquiparle (talk) 03:26, 4 February 2023 (UTC)
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Created by MaxnaCarta (talk). Self-nominated at 02:19, 28 December 2022 (UTC).
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Overall: Far prefer the first hook over the other two.
Beautiful article; consider going for WP:GA. On that, some notes that don't affect DYK eligibility but would probably come up in that process; or that you might want to tackle regardless:
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I have this message on the top of my user page that I understand was originally written by User:The Blade of the Northern Lights. It starts with "Our work together here should be our armor, not some sharp, angry, burning sword." - then it gets less poetic. We're here because we want to write good articles, for free, for the world, not for any other benefit but because it's fun, and because we genuinely enjoy the thought that we might be bringing just a little bit more knowledge to other people that we have never met and probably never will. That makes us pretty good people, actually. I mean, sure, in other aspects of our lives we might be surly, or mean, or vengeful, or cheat on our taxes, or our significant others, or I don't know, bake crystal meth or ruin people's lives in some other way. But here, at least, while we're here, we're doing something unselfish for other people. We should appreciate that about each other. Here at least, with the rare exception of vandals, we got this, we're all in this together. ("The axiom of a true tyrant!" That last link goes to a few pages of an amusing and sometimes surprisingly meaningful webcomic about superheroes, actually, but even farther afield than the rest of this speech, but I am herein incorporating it by reference. When possible, I recommend standing on the shoulders of giants; it helps one see farther. So, yes, so far I think Max has fixed Van's objections as far as I can see; but I haven't looked extremely closely, and if Van thinks some of them aren't fixed yet and should be (and can be - if, as Max writes, our software for harv refs is broken, there's only so much we can do), or even if he finds other things that are missing and can be fixed, and should be fixed to meet his reasonable reading of DYK standards, then we should fix them. And yes, I mean we, all of us, I had read Max's earlier comment and gotten up this morning with the intent to come in and fix whichever of Vanamonde's objections I could; even though one of the main refs is behind a paywall, which I can't get to, I think I can get to most of the others, I'm just slow, and am quite glad Max did the work already. (Here, just to prove it, I'll fix one of my own nits - the news article did not say "Newphew arrested", it did say "Nephew", I logged in to the Wikipedia library and checked, and fixed it. There are others that would be nice to fix like that, but not blocking.) We all help in our own way, but we as long as we recognize that we are all working together, not against each other, together we do a pretty good job. All right? Long enough of a thought for ya? |
--GRuban (talk) 15:21, 23 January 2023 (UTC)