- 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: rejected by BuySomeApples (talk) 04:57, 21 February 2022 (UTC)
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Mary Renault
- ... that Mary Renault was encouraged to write a novel by J.R.R. Tolkein set in medieval times, but she burned the manuscript because she felt it lacked authenticity? Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Renault
5x expanded by Srsval (talk). Self-nominated at 10:47, 15 February 2022 (UTC).
Hi Srsval, unfortunately I don't think this article is eligible for DYK. Per the rules the article must be new, expanded by more than five times or a recently promoted good article. The expansion here is adding only around 50% more text to the main body (to qualify it would need to add 500%) - Dumelow (talk) 11:42, 15 February 2022 (UTC)
- @Srsval: Looking at the page, it's already quite long and I'm not sure if enough prose could be added to meet the 5x expansion requirement. It might be better to try to bring it up to WP:Good article status and renominate it then. BuySomeApples (talk) 01:20, 19 February 2022 (UTC)
- Hi BuySomeApples, thanks for this. I had thought that adding more prose to extend an already lengthy article wouldn't make it better. If I worked on the article to Good Article status, would I be able to renominate using the same fact? Thanks, Srsval (talk) 21:32, 19 February 2022 (UTC)
- Absolutely @Srsval:! This hook fact could be submitted again in the re-nomination, it's a very interesting one. If you'd like, I can try to pitch in with getting the article to GA status. BuySomeApples (talk) 22:27, 19 February 2022 (UTC)
- BuySomeApples yes please, it would be great if you could help getting the article to GA status! That sounds like a good plan, thanks. Srsval (talk) 19:31, 20 February 2022 (UTC)
- Absolutely @Srsval:! This hook fact could be submitted again in the re-nomination, it's a very interesting one. If you'd like, I can try to pitch in with getting the article to GA status. BuySomeApples (talk) 22:27, 19 February 2022 (UTC)
- Hi BuySomeApples, thanks for this. I had thought that adding more prose to extend an already lengthy article wouldn't make it better. If I worked on the article to Good Article status, would I be able to renominate using the same fact? Thanks, Srsval (talk) 21:32, 19 February 2022 (UTC)
- @Srsval: Looking at the page, it's already quite long and I'm not sure if enough prose could be added to meet the 5x expansion requirement. It might be better to try to bring it up to WP:Good article status and renominate it then. BuySomeApples (talk) 01:20, 19 February 2022 (UTC)
