Template:Did you know nominations/Älgen Stolta


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The result was: promoted by Hawkeye7 (talk) 04:22, 9 August 2014 (UTC)

Älgen Stolta

 * ....that Älgen Stolta (pictured), a moose, won a harness race in a sports event against horses?
 * ALT1:....that in 1907, the moose Älgen Stolta (pictured) won a harness racing event against horses?
 * Reviewed:Steven the Sword Fighter

Created by BabbaQ (talk). Self nominated at 19:23, 30 July 2014 (UTC).


 * Symbol voting keep.svg Let's go with the ALT1 hook! Hook verified foreign language online, article ready, img good, QPQ good, character count confirmed at 1529 by DYKcheck!  Rcej (Robert) –  talk  07:09, 31 July 2014 (UTC)

Hold on. This article has multiple issues: it looks like it has been initially machine translated from the Swedish article (the swap of the surname Blad for Sheet is a bit of a giveaway), and imported the sources from sv wikipedia without checking their reliability; Refs 1,2,4,6, and 8 are all either personal or company blogs; after copyediting the article is too short to qualify; there are unreferenced claims and claims that have been made absolute when there are differing accounts (drowning versus train accident, winning the harness race versus taking part in a demonstration race); that we don't whether Stolta won the race invalidates ALT1; and the copyright status of the photo is unknown, so it can't be claimed as free. (Apart from these problems the article is fine!) Belle (talk) 09:48, 31 July 2014 (UTC)
 * User Doug Coldwell has made the requested edits.--BabbaQ (talk) 21:51, 1 August 2014 (UTC)
 * That's better, but there is now no source for With the closure of the railroad park in Älvkarleby in 1909...Jansson chose not to visit her. Her name was also changed to "Stolta Lotta." Stolta died in Stockholm in 1925. The new ref 4 also appears to be a personal website (although it does give a brief list of sources and one of the contributors appears to be the source for the Digital Museum information). Belle (talk) 02:07, 3 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Bella - Thanks for the improvements to the article. Did some copyediting to address the issues you brought up. Found another source for her name change and closure of the park where she was at. Article at 1643 characters. ALT1 looks good to me.--Doug Coldwell (talk) 11:42, 3 August 2014 (UTC)

I think I've done too much work on the article to sign off on it now, so I will attempt to lure another reviewer on to the rocks with a siren song. OoooOOoooooOOoooooo. [combs hair with shell] Belle (talk) 10:16, 4 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Symbol voting keep.svg lured, Belle, I trust your Swedish, AGF, article not long but no surprise for a narrow topic, - no, I didn't know the fact ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:53, 8 August 2014 (UTC)