- 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 Allen3 talk 09:35, 25 April 2014 (UTC)
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Frane Selak
edit... that Frane Selak claims to have been almost drowned twice, blown up, set on fire, fallen into a gorge, as well as been sucked through an open airplane door, hit by a bus, and has won the lottery?
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Created by Ktr101 (talk). Self nominated at 22:02, 9 March 2014 (UTC).
As far as I can see from the article history, this is not new. Thanks, Matty.007 17:15, 13 March 2014 (UTC)
- If you bothered to look at the article history, you would be able to see that there was a PROD tag added in 2009 and a magical page creation in 2014 that involves new text and nothing of the old one. Long story short, someone restored the page's history. Kevin Rutherford (talk) 21:51, 13 March 2014 (UTC)
Please don't be rude, I looked at the history, as my statement above shows. What I saw was a PROD added, then staying there until your expansion of the page. In addition, you would do well to discuss the editor who added it what he wants doing for the tag to be removed. Actually, looking at the logs, when the article was re-created, it was restored. I think this qualifies as creation, given that you changed the content though. Thanks, Matty.007 18:01, 14 March 2014 (UTC)
- I wasn't meaning to, but I figured it might have shown up as suspicious enough to check out. Regardless, let me know what you think about the whole possible falsification of these events part, as we could refactor it into the fact that he has become an urban legend based on what are likely tall tales. Kevin Rutherford (talk) 05:08, 15 March 2014 (UTC)
Please rephrase the following:
jumped the tracks and plunged
because of a faulty fuel pump,and he escaped just before the fuel tank exploded
(car accident 1): nothing is mentioned about a fuel pump malfunction in this accident. Thanks, Matty.007 18:21, 26 March 2014 (UTC)- The fuel pump was mentioned in the Cracked article. Kevin Rutherford (talk) 21:16, 30 March 2014 (UTC)
- It doesn't say it was faulty, merely that it was about to explode. Matty.007 09:55, 31 March 2014 (UTC)
- Fixed. Kevin Rutherford (talk) 11:10, 31 March 2014 (UTC)
- No, I don't think it says about the fuel pump malfunctioning in any ref. Matty.007 11:15, 31 March 2014 (UTC)
- Oh yeah, I fixed this yesterday, so it should be good now. Kevin Rutherford (talk) 23:10, 1 April 2014 (UTC)
If you are open to alts, Alt 1: ... that the "world's luckiest man" survived seven brushes with death, then won the lottery? Matty.007 10:14, 2 April 2014 (UTC)
- Yeah, that works, as it is less convoluted than my one. Kevin Rutherford (talk) 20:31, 2 April 2014 (UTC)
- Oh yeah, I fixed this yesterday, so it should be good now. Kevin Rutherford (talk) 23:10, 1 April 2014 (UTC)
- No, I don't think it says about the fuel pump malfunctioning in any ref. Matty.007 11:15, 31 March 2014 (UTC)
- Fixed. Kevin Rutherford (talk) 11:10, 31 March 2014 (UTC)
- It doesn't say it was faulty, merely that it was about to explode. Matty.007 09:55, 31 March 2014 (UTC)
- The fuel pump was mentioned in the Cracked article. Kevin Rutherford (talk) 21:16, 30 March 2014 (UTC)
Doing a bit of a review: the article is large enough, and has not detectable copyright problems. Given that it is new enough and referenced and no obvious non-neutrality problems, the article itself is OK. QPQ is good. However the alt1 hook is not in the article, as the article does not call him the world's luckiest man, even if references do. Otherwise I agree that Alt1 sounds much better. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 21:22, 19 April 2014 (UTC)
I added the ALT1 hook fact to the article, removed the Cracked ref which basically parrots The Scotsman article, and added a Der Spiegel ref with a few more details. I also copyedited the article to remove close paraphrasing. New enough, long enough, adequately referenced, no close paraphrasing seen. QPQ done. ALT1 hook ref verified and cited inline. Good to go. Yoninah (talk) 21:10, 24 April 2014 (UTC)
