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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 97198 (talk) 13:11, 17 June 2014 (UTC)

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R.S. Unni

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Created by Soman (talk). Self nominated at 05:23, 2 June 2014 (UTC).

  • Recent enough, exceeds minimal prose requirements, more or less neutral, hook decently interesting, the DYk is under 200 characters. Just a few concerns though. First, there were a few copy vios with the first source [1]. The second is the specific claim. I found the “21 trade union” statement in the book you described on page 61, but all it states is that an unnamed deputy claims that he founded 21 unions. I would really make sure to clear this up. If you get rid of the copy vios and fix the 21 union statement, I’ll approve this. Spirit of Eagle (talk) 04:43, 6 June 2014 (UTC)
  • In regards to point 1, you are running the duplication detector against the entire document, which contains many different bios, if you check the result you'll see that it is mainly political titles that give the hits (like "kerala legislative assembly" or "general secretary of the" that appears across plenty of bios in the doc, and in no way constitutes close paraphase). Regarding point 2, the footnote in the book clarifies that the comment is about R.S. Unni. (ping @User:Spirit of Eagle) --Soman (talk) 06:05, 6 June 2014 (UTC)
Ok, whoops and whoops on my part. No other problems, everything is good to go. Spirit of Eagle (talk) 12:40, 6 June 2014 (UTC)
  • The quote in the hook, "about 21 trade unions", looks silly. Why don't you write:
  • ALT1: ... that the Deputy Speaker of the Kerala Legislative Assembly, R.S. Unni, held positions in over 20 trade unions? Yoninah (talk) 17:55, 11 June 2014 (UTC)
  • I'm ok with ALT1. --Soman (talk) 19:28, 11 June 2014 (UTC)
  • Spirit of Eagle, could you okay this? Yoninah (talk) 19:44, 11 June 2014 (UTC)
  • By the way, I don't even see that quote or any reference to 21 trade unions in either of the sources (footnotes 1 and 2). Yoninah (talk) 19:48, 11 June 2014 (UTC)
  • It's in Nossiter, page 61. The footnote on page 64 clarifies that it is R.S. Unni that is being refered to. --Soman (talk) 19:56, 11 June 2014 (UTC)
  • Thanks for fixing the citation. Yoninah (talk) 20:22, 11 June 2014 (UTC)
Lets see, still under 200 characters, neutral and so on and so forth. Good to go, and I must agree that this new DYK hook looks better. Spirit of Eagle (talk) 03:05, 12 June 2014 (UTC)
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