Template:Did you know nominations/Evelyn Adams (lottery winner)

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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 17:34, 13 March 2018 (UTC)

Evelyn Adams (lottery winner)

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• ... that despite odds estimated at 17 trillion to one, Evelyn Adams won two multi-million dollar lottery jackpots in the span of four months? Source: "Defying odds in the realm of the preposterous - 1 in 17 trillion - a woman who won $3.9 million in the New Jersey state lottery last October has hit the jackpot again and yesterday laid claim with her fiance to an additional $1.4 million prize."
  • ALT1:... that despite winning two multi-million dollar lottery jackpots in the span of four months, Evelyn Adams squandered the money and ended up living in a trailer? Source: "Take the case of Evelyn Adams. She beat the odds by winning the New Jersey lottery twice – in 1985 and 1986, collecting a total of $5.4 million. But she totally blew through the money with her own spending, bad investments, gifts to family and gambling. Today she lives in a trailer."

• Reviewed: Meteor III (yacht)
• Comment: The article was expanded in response to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Evelyn Adams (lottery winner), which needs to be resolved before the article can appear at DYK.

5x expanded by Alansohn (talk). Self-nominated at 04:58, 20 February 2018 (UTC).

• @Alansohn: I'll review this in full tomorrow. However, even if all the criteria are met, this article will still not be promoted unless the deletion discussion closes with a decision to not delete. epicgenius (talk) 03:09, 21 February 2018 (UTC)

• Note that after further consideration, ALT1 has been stricken out. Alansohn (talk) 19:07, 23 February 2018 (UTC)

• Epicgenius, the AfD has been closed as Keep. Again, ALT0 is preferred and ALT1 has been stricken out. Alansohn (talk) 17:03, 7 March 2018 (UTC)

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall:

Article is at AfD, so it is on hold until the deletion discussion is closed.

Looks good. I wouldn't go with ALT1 though, because of what's been happening here and here. If this deletion discussion ends in the article not being deleted, then ALT0 will be good to go. epicgenius (talk) 01:55, 22 February 2018 (UTC)

Fixing the DYK checklist template so status field has a valid value, and filling in the comments field to explain the status. BlueMoonset (talk) 03:43, 2 March 2018 (UTC)

ALT0 good to go now. epicgenius (talk) 18:05, 7 March 2018 (UTC)