Template:Did you know nominations/Chang and Eng Bunker

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 RileyBugz^{私に叫ぼう}_私の編集 21:43, 30 July 2018 (UTC)

Chang and Eng Bunker

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• ... that the "original Siamese twins" Chang and Eng Bunker became slaveholders after retiring from exhibitions? Source: Orser 2014, p. 125
  • ALT1:... that Chang and Eng Bunker, the Siamese twins, died just hours apart? Source: Orser 2014, p. 174
  • ALT2:... that the conjoined liver of Chang and Eng Bunker, the Siamese twins, is on display at the Mütter Museum in Philadelphia? Source: Quigley 2012, p. 39

• Reviewed: Rantzen v Mirror Group Newspapers (1986) Ltd and others
• Comment: Using DYK check on this revision shows 5147 characters. Five-times expansion from this needs over 20,000 characters; the article currently hovers around 30,000. But if you include the lists in the Legacy and Descendants sections, it works out to around 8000 characters, which would need 40,000 after expansion. If the current length doesn't work for DYK then I'll just withdraw the nomination.

5x expanded by Hameltion (talk). Self-nominated at 18:51, 19 July 2018 (UTC).

• Cursory check indicates no copyvio or plagiarism concerns, citations seem to be fine. There's the question the nominator raised about article length and age, which I feel is fine. But other editors might have a different opinion. For now, the technicals check out and I'll just say I feel this is ready for DYK. (I tapped DYKCheck and Earwig's CopyVio Detector before reading through the article to check if it's okay to my eyes.) Hook #3 feels like the most interesting hook to me, while Hook #1 is... okay. Hook #2 feels a bit commonsensical, but that may be because I read the story of the Bunkers back when I was a kid; newer eyes might find that fact more intriguing. - Alternativity (talk) 05:51, 26 July 2018 (UTC)