Template:Did you know nominations/Northern line extension to Battersea

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Theleekycauldron (talk) 02:13, 25 September 2021 (UTC)

• ... that the tunnel boring machines that dug the London's new Northern line extension were named after the first British astronaut Helen Sharman, and British aviation pioneer Amy Johnson? ^[1]

• Comment: The extension of the Northern line opens on September 20th, so that would be a good day for this one!
• QPQ: Template:Did you know nominations/The Epic Split

5x expanded by Turini2 (talk). Self-nominated at 21:39, 11 September 2021 (UTC).

General eligibility:

• New enough:
• Long enough: - This article is not long enough unfortunately. The article did begin expansion on September 9 with 5,537 prose characters and now has 19,880 prose characters. To expand it fivefold, you will have to expand it to approximately 25,500 prose characters. You can use DYKcheck to determine the prose size of an article. For purposes of calculation, bulleted lists cannot be considered as prose.

Hook eligibility:

• Cited:
• Interesting: - The hook should specify "London's Northern line extension".

Overall: @Turini2: I have to preface this by saying great work on the article - for some reason I had this page in my watchlist, and I've noticed this article expand drastically. Sadly, as of right now, the article isn't long enough to have been expanded fivefold. But if you are able to add around 5,500 additional prose characters within the next couple of days, then this would be eligible. Bulleted lists don't count toward prose expansions, so you would have to add some more info that isn't a list. If you cannot expand the page anymore, then another option is to nominate this as a good article and resubmit the page for DYK once the good article nomination is passed. Epicgenius (talk) 14:53, 12 September 2021 (UTC)

Thanks Epicgenius for your kind words, it's appreciated! Argh, I knew I'd expanded the article a lot, but didn't realise how far I was off the 5x! I'll see what I can do today - given that I'm unlikely to get a GA before the 20th September. I wonder if turning bulletpoints into prose will help... Can I ping you when I'm done? With regard to editing the hook following your feedback, do I edit this above, or somewhere else? Turini2 (talk) 12:37, 13 September 2021 (UTC)

Turini2, you can definitely ping me when you are finished with your expansion. It is fine with me if you edit the hook.

Sorry, I should clarify about the good article nomination - you do not have to improve it to good-article status within 7 days of the good article nomination. The 7-day limit only applies to the DYK process after the GAN is passed. You can nominate this for GA anytime you want and, once the GA is passed, you have 7 days to nominate the article for DYK. Epicgenius (talk) 12:48, 13 September 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for this Epicgenius - I've made edits, I think it's over the 25k mark but take a look. It might need a little more. I can flesh out a few sections if required I think. Do let me know. Turini2 (talk) 21:59, 13 September 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads-up. I'll look at this in detail tomorrow morning. Epicgenius (talk) 00:42, 14 September 2021 (UTC)

Looks good to go for me. It has been expanded from about 5.6k prose characters to about 28k prose characters within the relevant time period. Due to rounding these aren't precise, but this is still a very good expansion nevertheless. Epicgenius (talk) 13:10, 14 September 2021 (UTC)

Thanks Epicgenius, much appreciated :D Turini2 (talk) 14:07, 14 September 2021 (UTC)

• Promoter's comment: Damn, Turini, nice job! theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (they/them) 02:13, 25 September 2021 (UTC)

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