Template:Did you know nominations/History and traditions of Harvard Commencements

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The result was: promoted by Allen3 ^talk 13:02, 11 October 2013 (UTC)

History and traditions of Harvard commencements edit

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... that at Harvard commencements, bagpipes herald breakfast, bachelors are welcomed, sheriffs on white steeds preserve order, and Harvard's president occupies a "bizarre" chair (pictured) prone to tipping over?

Created by EEng (talk), Hertz1888 (talk). Nominated by EEng (talk) at 09:43, 9 September 2013 (UTC).

(sigh) Immediately after creating this nomination, I realized that when I created the article I'd somehow messed up the title. I created it with a capital "C" -- History and traditions of Harvard Commencements; but I've now moved the article to History and traditions of Harvard commencements. There's a redirect as usual so everything should be hunky-dorey, but I thought I should mention it here to avoid someone getting all puzzled. EEng (talk) 09:58, 9 September 2013 (UTC)

I realize DYK emphasizes new content, and perhaps I should have thought of this earlier, but is there any way to hold this hook until May 29, 2014, the date of Harvard's next commencement? I think that would be fun. EEng (talk) 18:32, 9 September 2013 (UTC)

Sorry, no way to hold it beyond six weeks. (April Fools is the only exception to this rule.) I've adjusted the template to reflect the capitalization change. BlueMoonset (talk) 15:49, 27 September 2013 (UTC)

Well at the rate things are going we'll be lucky if it's reviewed by next May. EEng (talk) 12:08, 8 October 2013 (UTC)

Mr. or Ms, reviewer: the hook lists four independent bits from the article. You can find their cites by searching (1) bagpipes, (2) bachelor, (3) tip over, and (4) horses and fights (these last two for the sheriffs). If that's two complicated I guess I can try to stuff the hook as literal text in the lead, but that will be stylistically awkward. EEng (talk) 21:05, 30 September 2013 (UTC)

Full review needed. BlueMoonset (talk) 15:49, 27 September 2013 (UTC)

The article has lots of "citation/clarification needed" tags. The fact that these tags were added by EEng, the article's creator, kind of implies that this is still a work in progress, and not ready for the main page. These issues will have to be addressed in a timely manner for the nomination to succeed. DoctorKubla (talk) 21:27, 10 October 2013 (UTC)

All done. Thanks for your work so far.

Listen, there's a bug I noticed a few days ago which appears to show up only on my particular version of Internet Explorer, which is that the "Notes", which are supposed to be designated A, B, C, etc., instead are numbered 1, 2, 3, etc. (not just in this article, but all articles). At the same time I'm getting some weird vertical whitespace formatting errors. If you're seeing stuff like that I can only suggest trying Chrome or Mozilla -- it's not a problem with the article, but with the browser. EEng (talk) 23:11, 10 October 2013 (UTC)

Okay, article and hook check out (note that I've made some minor changes to the hook – I've delinked "bagpipes", "bachelors" and "sheriffs" per WP:OVERLINK, and put quote marks around "bizarre"). Image is PD and used in the article. Nom has under 5 DYKs, so no QPQ is necessary. DoctorKubla (talk) 07:42, 11 October 2013 (UTC)

That's all fine. I'm cutting down on QPQ on my doctor's advice so that works out. Listen, are you using Internet Explorer and if so, are you seeing the problem I described above? I seem to be the only person on earth affected, and it's driving me crazy. EEng (talk) 12:35, 11 October 2013 (UTC)