Talk:Vovan and Lexus
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25 April 2021[edit]
"He is not married. He devotes his free time to "professional training", since pranking, being the art of reincarnation, requires very complex skills and abilities."
This doesn't seem very Wikipedia-ey, in the use of tongue-in-cheek apostrophes and in the whole latter half. Also lacks citation and the fact I can't seem to find a source shows this may be written by him himself or someone close to him (which Wikipedia has strong rules about). 2001:1C00:711:3500:F52E:3CA6:A786:F0F4 (talk) 05:55, 25 April 2021 (UTC)
Did you know nomination[edit]
- 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 Szmenderowiecki (talk) 09:15, 28 March 2022 (UTC)
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Elton John (pictured) was pranked by Russian comedians in 2016
- ... that Russian prank duo Vovan and Lexus, who were behind prank calls to English singer Elton John and Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau, are accused of ties to Russian security services? Source: Elton John and security service claim, Trudeau prank
- Comment: Not sure about the image caption, so this can be changed if needed. The Trudeau mention can be replaced by another "victim" of the duo if people here think they're more interesting.
5x expanded by QueenofBithynia (talk), NikosLikomitros (talk), and Rwendland (talk). Nominated by QueenofBithynia (talk) at 16:50, 25 March 2022 (UTC).
- Comment: I am puzzled that my addition is listed in the 5x expanded claim above, as my paragraph addition was made on 15 July 2021, well outside the past seven days criteria. Also likewise NikosLikomitros addition was in November 2020. Only the proposer's additions are within the past seven days, and of thos additions only 379 characters clearly refer directly to an event in 2022, the rest seems general article expansion. (But I am a DYK novice, so maybe I misunderstand WP:DYKRULES.) Rwendland (talk) 11:05, 26 March 2022 (UTC)
: Fails Eligibility criteria #1 - within the past seven days not Created, GA, or 5x expanded. Doing a 5x hand check (unix wc of text without TOC, photos, cites, notes, excess white space): 5 days ago: 4462 characters (history: 9,033 bytes), current article: 5485 characters (history: 16,378 bytes). Not even doubled in seven days, even by total bytes given in History. Rwendland (talk) 12:00, 26 March 2022 (UTC)
Margaritis Schinas and Thomas Bach of the International Olympic Committee[edit]
Recently (around the 10th of April) V&L pranked the president of the IOC: Prank excerpt on V&L-channel Manorainjan 16:00, 13 April 2024 (UTC)
- @Manorainjan: Very interesting: Looks like this has been covered by Reuters, NZ Herald and others. Would definitely be up for this being included in the article. GnocchiFan (talk) 09:47, 14 April 2024 (UTC)
- That Reuters article was "Updated 12 days ago" (I hate it, when they do not provide absolute data). So one can conclude, that the prank did take place before the 2th of April. Reuters carefully avoids to name the pranksters. In the video we see, how this is backfiring: World leading functionaries do not know their name. --Manorainjan 14:23, 14 April 2024 (UTC)
- The NZH AP-sourced article is dated 21 Mar, 2024 and mention's V&L explicitly.
- Also "12 days ago" another telephone prank was uploaded on the channel of V&L which is not the same as the one I mentioned initially. So, we are indeed dealing here with several prank calls to Thomas Bach which did not make it into the article yet. But the topic seems to be the same: discouraging African athletes to take part in the Russian friendship games. Anyway, the matter remains kind of vague. No one tells the number of calls and the dates. --Manorainjan 14:47, 14 April 2024 (UTC)
- That's fair enough: I've added what I can glean from reliable sources; if there is anything else you would like to add please feel free to do so, and thanks for bringing this to the attention of this talk page.
GnocchiFan (talk) 15:06, 14 April 2024 (UTC)
- That's fair enough: I've added what I can glean from reliable sources; if there is anything else you would like to add please feel free to do so, and thanks for bringing this to the attention of this talk page.
