- 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 Fuebaey (talk) 14:48, 2 January 2015 (UTC)
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Blonde Electra edit
- ... that the two sisters Jazzy and Ruby King (pictured) of the pop group Blonde Electra, finalist in The X Factor (UK) 2014 competition, are related to British chancellor George Osborne?
- ALT1:... that British chancellor George Osborne is related to the two sisters Jazzy and Ruby King (pictured) of The X Factor (UK) 2014 finalist pop group Blonde Electra?
Created by Optimale (talk). Self nominated at 15:22, 25 November 2014 (UTC).
- The article is new and long enough, and there is a 29% chance of a copyvio according to Earwig's tool [1]; the source it most closely resembles is the Daily Mail, but there's no large chunk of closely paraphrased text in the article that matches the Mail, so that's not an issue. The hook is cited, but i'm uncomfortable with the fact that it is sourced to the Daily Mail, which I don't think is a very reliable source. Also, the hook is more than the upper limit of 200 characters. Once these issues are both addressed I would support this as good to go, though. Everymorning talk to me 22:35, 25 November 2014 (UTC)
- I added a Daily Express reference (although the fact is also supported by the genealogical data of Sir George Francis Osborne and Lt. Col. Stewart William King). It's my first DYK submission so I might miss something, but my editor counts 185 characters for the first hook and 163 characters for the second hook for the displayed text, so less than the 200 allowed? Or do you have to count the source text with all the meta characters for interwiki links and the whole link text? Optimale Gu 00:14, 26 November 2014 (UTC)
- Yeah, that looks sufficient to address the Mail-related issues. As for the character count, I did indeed get my number of 233 by counting the source code rather than what is displayed on the page normally. I redid it with this tool using the displayed text and got 181, so this looks to be good to go.
Everymorning talk to me 00:36, 26 November 2014 (UTC)
- Yeah, that looks sufficient to address the Mail-related issues. As for the character count, I did indeed get my number of 233 by counting the source code rather than what is displayed on the page normally. I redid it with this tool using the displayed text and got 181, so this looks to be good to go.
Remark: the current Chancellor of the Exchequer is George Osborne; George Osborn died in 1891! Furthermore, albeit less critically, I would recommend linking to The X Factor (UK series 11), rather than The X Factor (UK TV series), since the former discusses Blonde Electra. It Is Me Here t / c 18:44, 15 December 2014 (UTC)
