Template:Did you know nominations/Ankit Sharma (athlete)


 * 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 Montanabw (talk) 03:53, 11 August 2016 (UTC)

Ankit Sharma (athlete)

 * ... that in June 2016, Indian long jumper Ankit Sharma broke the national record twice in one day and qualified for the 2016 Summer Olympics?


 * Reviewed: Philip May
 * Comment: To be moved to Olympics holding area; Men's long jump qualifiers is on 12 August, final is on 13 August

Created by Dee03 (talk). Self-nominated at 07:38, 15 July 2016 (UTC).


 * Symbol question.svg The article was created less than a week ago, has enough characters and is neutral. There are a few minor copyvios, specifically the phrases “he won the gold medal at the” and “to breach the 8 metre mark” which are word for word copies of the “My next goal is to reach the final”. These will need to be corrected before the hook can be promoted. Also, you should change twice to “two times” in the hook, which was another instance of close wording that I corrected myself. The claim that Sharma is going to the 2016 Olympics, which appears in your hook, is uncited in the article but beyond this there are no citation issues. The hook contains less than 200 characters, and is neutral and interesting. QPQ is done and there are no images. In conclusion, fix the close-wording issues and cite the Olympic claim, and this hook will be good to go. Spirit of Eagle (talk) 05:48, 16 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Hello, thank you for taking up the review. I agree "to breach the 8 metre mark" might need rewording, although Earwig's Copyvio Detector doesn't think so. However I don't think the phrase "he won the gold medal at the" can be called a copyvio. That is the most common way of saying someone won the gold medal at an event (see WP:LIMITED and the number of times the phrase is used on Wikipedia). The same can be said regarding the usage of "twice". I have now cited the fact that Sharma is going to the Olympics and also changed "to breach" to "to go past". Let me know if there are any other issues. Dee  03  07:09, 16 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Symbol confirmed.svg An inline citation has been added and an instance of close-paraphrasing has been addressed. Also, I agree with the reasoning put forward regarding the other supposed instances, and am no longer objecting to these instances. As such, this hook is good to go. Spirit of Eagle (talk) 05:52, 17 July 2016 (UTC)