- The following discussion 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 Crisco 1492 (talk) 15:16, 25 April 2012 (UTC)
Jacobus Deketh edit
- ... that Jacobus Deketh (pictured) was a captain in the Frisian Admiralty?
Created/expanded by Tomtomn00 (talk). Self nom at 09:37, 4 April 2012 (UTC)
Fails 2 key criteria. The article is to short, and the only reference is a 404 dead link. Also, in the article it says 'Frisian Admirality'. Would need more, functioning references, and an expansion to 1500+ characters to pass DYK. Also, it is uncategorized. User:Tomtomn00 has no previous DYKs, and doesn't need to review another article. --Soman (talk) 09:59, 4 April 2012 (UTC)
- This article was on my to-do list, and what you saw was a translation of the Dutch Wikipedia. I am trying to fix grammar, and the cats are there now. Unfortunately the Friesian Admiralty archives were burned in a fire and are no longer available. So there may not be a lot of reference material around. I won't bother proposing an alt hook, as I suspect it does not qualify for DYK as being a translation of other Wiki material. I have found references from newspapers now, so definately WP:GNG material. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 13:39, 5 April 2012 (UTC)
- Translations are fine, so long as they are fully referenced and otherwise meet the criteria. Crisco 1492 (talk) 15:10, 10 April 2012 (UTC)
I have now referenced everything, rewritten or deleted parts, added more text and repaired all the grammar. So if you now like the article I propose a new hook:
- alt1 ... that Jacobus Deketh (pictured) was a captain of a 36 gun frigate in the Frisian Admiralty?
- Graeme Bartlett (talk) 05:25, 14 April 2012 (UTC)
Article I believe is ready. Please review. --Tomtomn00 (talk • contributions) 17:57, 21 April 2012 (UTC)
Article is now long enough, new enough and the image is in the public domain. I have done a bit more copyediting and would go for ALT1 as being more interesting. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 05:36, 24 April 2012 (UTC)
