Template:Did you know nominations/We choose to go to the Moon
- 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 Yoninah (talk) 18:25, 23 April 2018 (UTC)
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We choose to go to the Moon
editPresident Kennedy's speech on the space effort at Rice University on September 12, 1962
- ... that President John F. Kennedy (pictured) said: "We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard"? (Source: transcript Or better still, watch the video.)
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Laura Kamhuber
- Comment: This one has to run with the image!!!
Improved to Good Article status by Hawkeye7 (talk) and JustinTime55 (talk). Nominated by Hawkeye7 (talk) at 13:00, 21 March 2018 (UTC).
@Hawkeye7: @JustinTime55: Strong article, strong hook. Passed GA the same date as the DYK nomination itself. Article is long enough and meets all relevant quality criteria. The hook is an appropriate length, well-worded (simple, concise, letting JFK's words do the work), and interesting to a general readership. Like other famous lines from JFK's speeches, this quotation will likely ring a bell even to readers with minimal knowledge of this era of American history, but even for those totally unfamiliar with JFK it is a compelling hook.- The media accompanying the hook—a public domain video recording of JFK's speech in full—is similarly excellent. However, some food for thought: the video itself is unedited and rather long at 17:28. I think it would be worth uploading a shorter video for the Main Page. It's doubtful that many (or any) Main Page viewers would start playing the video and then decide to actually sit through the full 17 minutes. Most would close the video quickly once they realize it's unedited and long, that at the start JFK is just rattling off a formal introduction, and that there's no indication at what point in time JFK actually speaks the quoted line—even if they knew where to skip ahead, I'm not sure that the media player is equipped to skip ahead (I can't seem to skip ahead on my browser, which is Google Chrome on Mac). Any reader who would choose to watch a substantial part of the video would likely also watch it after clicking through to the article itself, which is the goal anyway.
- It's much more likely that a very short video (30 seconds or so) would entice readers to click through and view the article itself. An ideal short video would be a fragment of the speech that emphasizes the quoted excerpt, perhaps including just a few lines before and after to capture a bit of the logical flow of the speech. That said, I don't think anything about the video in its current state is a problem under any DYK policy or should in any way delay passing this hook through the DYK process; it's very high quality media, and I agree with the nominator that this hook should be scheduled to "run with the image!!!" I recommend considering an edited version for the limited purpose of the DYK, but it's entirely your choice. Great work! —BLZ · talk 16:43, 21 March 2018 (UTC)
