Template:Did you know nominations/Victoria Coates

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: rejected by Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 15:58, 30 June 2016 (UTC)
No point dragging this out any longer

Victoria Coates edit

Created by Iselilja (talk). Self-nominated at 22:55, 3 April 2016 (UTC).

  • Added the missing word "advisor" in hook. Interesting, not to say odd hook fact, which checks out. New & long enuf. Can't access ref 2 without sub, but ref 1 covers most of it, including the hook, without plagiarizing. Johnbod (talk) 17:39, 8 April 2016 (UTC)
  • I'd recommend holding this back until at least June 8 (end of US primaries) or until Ted Cruz quits the race, considering how closely related this is to his campaign. Jolly Ω Janner 19:43, 10 April 2016 (UTC)
Returned from prep area. Article is tagged for not meeting WP:GNG or WP:BIO, as it has only 2 sources. Yoninah (talk) 10:30, 9 May 2016 (UTC)
Silly notability tag removed. Clearly notable. Really, didn't you do a basic search? I'm not aware of any requirement, even at WP:BLP, to use more than two sources. Johnbod (talk) 12:59, 9 May 2016 (UTC)
I added the notability tag in the hopes that someone would add a few more sources to make this eligible for DYK per Rule D12. Only extinct fossils and centuries-old people are granted one or two sources. It's not up to me to go searching for more sources; it's the page creator's responsibility. I've gone ahead and nominated it for AFD; maybe now someone will be motivated to improve the sourcing. Yoninah (talk) 21:11, 9 May 2016 (UTC)
  • I've withdrawn the AFD nomination because the subject does meet WP:GNG, but I do not think it should be promoted for DYK with only 2 sources. Yoninah (talk) 12:41, 10 May 2016 (UTC)
You could more usefully occupy your time by asking the nominator to add eg the Esquire interview. But I have no idea where this "minimum 3 sources" idea comes from. Ping Iselilja. Johnbod (talk) 14:26, 10 May 2016 (UTC)
I did. She has not edited since April 3. Frankly, I have no desire to rescue this article. Yoninah (talk) 20:46, 10 May 2016 (UTC)
  • Time for a re-review? Many edits have been made to the wikiarticle since this nom was approved for DYK in April. --PFHLai (talk) 12:55, 11 June 2016 (UTC)
  • Yes, there have been edits, but the article still has only 2 sources. More sources were offered at the AFD discussion, but none have been added. Yoninah (talk) 12:52, 27 June 2016 (UTC)
  • Yoninah, it sounds like your objections come under WP:DYKSG#D7 in part, and also D12 and D13. You can do a complete review if you'd like; if not, then we need to find a new reviewer. BlueMoonset (talk) 15:49, 27 June 2016 (UTC)
  • My objection to this article appearing on the main page is WP:DYKSG#D12, which we accord for an extinct fossil or a 17th-century personality. There are sources available, they just haven't been added to the article, although I pinged the page creator a month and a half ago. At this point, I would reject it. Yoninah (talk) 19:11, 27 June 2016 (UTC)