Template:Did you know nominations/Copenhagen (horse)

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The result was: promoted by -- ɑηsuмaη ^{ʈ ᶏ ɭ Ϟ} 18:10, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

Copenhagen (horse)

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• ... that the Duke of Wellington was almost kicked in the head by his war horse Copenhagen (pictured) after riding the horse for seventeen straight-hours during the Battle of Waterloo?

• Comment: 5x expansion, Reviewed: Downing Hall

Created/expanded by Froggerlaura (talk). Self nom at 04:11, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

• Article meets all requirements, interesting article. Miyagawa (talk) 23:44, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

Article has not been expanded 5x within the past 10 days (33 days). Expansion began 52 edits ago on January 9, 2012. -- ɑηsuмaη ^{ʈ ᶏ ɭ Ϟ} 05:32, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

On Feb 6 the article was 4,000 bytes (when I first edited) and is now over 20,000 bytes. I nominated within the 10 day range. What exactly is the problem? The previous (Jan 9) expansion was not done by me and the page had not be touched for over a month before I saw it. I am going to get this article up to GA standards soon and can add more. Froggerlaura (talk) 06:23, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

We don't go by bytes, Laura. Counting bytes is not considered "fair", as it would be too easy to "expand" by adding categories, templates such as infoboxes, pictures with long filenames and detailed descriptions in the legend, references with long titles, ... etc. Instead, we count the prose length by characters. Before Feb6, the article has 2100 characters in its prose. The current version has a character count of 9901. That's a 4.7-fold expansion. You are getting very close to 5 folds! (Actually, if it's >4.8, I'm going to round it up to 5.) Happy typing. Cheers! --PFHLai (talk) 07:09, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

Sorry, not bytes. Shubinator's script for prose length no longer works on my computer (manual one doesn't work either). Will add more, but what about expansion starting on 6 Jan? Froggerlaura (talk) 16:31, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

• Oh wow, I completely read the month wrong on the checker. Unfortunately the article is a month late for DYK. Unless it can be expanded 5x again, it doesn't qualify. Miyagawa (talk) 18:21, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

• The version I started with on 6 Feb was this one (361 words, 1,849 characters), as of the current version [1] the article is 2,083 words, 10,670 characters of prose (no info box or charts). It has been expanded 5.7x (crude estimation using Word, shubinator not working for me). Does "5x expanded again" mean I have to completely start over? (if that's the case it will probably be FA material:) Froggerlaura (talk) 19:13, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

The current character count by Shubinator's DYKcheck on the current version is 11915 characters, that's 5.7X more text than the version immediately before Froggerlaura's editing on Feb.5/6th. Good enough for me. --PFHLai (talk) 19:24, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

It must have been a bug in the DYK checker because its back to saying the expansion happened in February. Went and checked manually and confirmed this. Dunno why the checker went nuts there for a little bit, but this is good to go once more. Miyagawa (talk) 09:33, 13 February 2012 (UTC)