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
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The result was: promoted by
BlueMoonset (
talk) 04:58, 11 January 2013 (UTC)
Maybe the hook should be more specific, I.e. "encouraged Ukranians not to leave the Soviet Union in a 1991 speech in Kiev, later dubbed the
Chicken Kiev speech?" or something like that.
Beeblebrox (
talk) 18:44, 4 December 2012 (UTC)
See:
[1] for what Mandarax did, thank you Mandarax.
Spoildead (
talk) 21:34, 4 December 2012 (UTC)
I don't know if this effects the DYK nomination at all, but the page's creator has been blocked as a sock used to avoid scrutiny. A bunch of users worked on this page though, and it still seems like a good candidate for DYK regardless. Just not sure how DYK prefers to "give credit" in a case like this.
Beeblebrox (
talk) 19:39, 9 December 2012 (UTC)
I think this can still pass, notable subject and the like. As the sock master was blocked for copyright issues, this needs to be looked at thoroughly. BTW, Beeblebrox seems to deserve a credit. —
Crisco 1492 (
talk) 01:03, 25 December 2012 (UTC)
Can I suggest a different hook? The current one isn't particularly interesting. How about:
What do you think? Otherwise, OK. ˜
danjel [
talk |
contribs ] 17:12, 27 December 2012 (UTC)
I strongly prefer the other hook, it is more direct in defining the article subject. If they want all the details they can click the link and read the article. However, enough time has passed that we should not assume readers know what the Soviet Union was, many of them were not even born when it broke up, we should probably link that as well. (member of the last generation taught cold-war paranoia in school, I feel so old...)
Beeblebrox (
talk) 18:32, 27 December 2012 (UTC)
I agree: ALT3 is too talky and explanatory: I'm bored long before it's done saying what the speech wasn't. Still need a reviewer to examine the entire article and its original hook; I've struck ALT3.
BlueMoonset (
talk) 02:46, 6 January 2013 (UTC)
Just a thought, maybe a more concise hook (that also puts the target article up front) might be something like:
Any good?
EdChem (
talk) 22:10, 7 January 2013 (UTC)
Article review: big enoug, new enough, cited enough, free of copyright infringement, and does not appear biased. Hook ALT4 is under consideration here: short and informative enough, alt6 counts only as a fringe opinion and alt5 is hardly telling us anything. Hook alt4 is covered in article, referenced and confirmed. good to go.
Graeme Bartlett (
talk) 10:19, 10 January 2013 (UTC)