Template:Did you know nominations/BBC First World War centenary season

BBC First World War centenary season

 * ... that the BBC First World War centenary season will include 130 newly commissioned programmes to mark the centenary of the First World War?

Created by Tentinator (talk). Self nominated at 08:24, 22 October 2013 (UTC).


 * Symbol confirmed.svg Date, length and hook all OK. A shame this wasn't reviewed earlier as it could have gone up today. Why not hold it until, 28 July the date of the start of the First World War?  The C of E God Save the Queen!  ( talk ) 09:17, 11 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: as the maximum hold time is six weeks (the sole exception being April Fools), July 28 is clearly not possible. This will have to run when it's promoted in the near future. BlueMoonset (talk) 04:55, 12 November 2013 (UTC)


 * Symbol possible vote.svg Ugh. There is no way that something like 30 empty section headings meets WP:DYKSG #D7. I strongly suggest completely reformatting this article as a proper list. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 12:39, 12 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: Tentinator has had five DYKs hit the main page, so a QPQ will be required (see here). BlueMoonset (talk) 14:42, 15 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Reviewed Template:Did you know nominations/Biosphere Reserves of Poland and removed unexpanded headers.  Tentinator   17:38, 15 November 2013 (UTC)
 * I'm sorry, but I really have to agree with Crisco on this one. I think that formatting it something like this would be much more useful to readers and it would allow for content about the individual programmes to be easily added even if they did not get their own article. It's up to you though. Thingg &#8853;&#8855; 04:06, 22 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Symbol possible vote.svg This is a list. The improved formatting just makes this more obvious. I cannot see 1500 characters of text on this subject. Even the lede contains a quite long list. I don't see that this can be approved unless its under the 5x expansion rule which would be achievable. Victuallers (talk) 10:15, 27 November 2013 (UTC)


 * Symbol delete vote.svg Since the 5x expansion rule still requires a minimum of 1500 prose characters, this isn't going to help. What the article would need—and it hasn't been forthcoming—would be some good secondary sources with information about the BBC's overall plans on the centenary. Having paragraphs that are just comma-separated lists of channels, or lists of program names, are not prose; one- or two-sentence descriptions of programs in a table also don't count. I'm afraid this just isn't going to qualify for DYK. BlueMoonset (talk) 06:50, 8 December 2013 (UTC)


 * Surely it couldn't be that difficult to add 1500 bytes of prose to this article to bring it into conformity? This seems to me to be a quite interesting topic suitable for DYK. Would anyone like to put their hand up for the job? Gatoclass (talk) 08:12, 8 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Nope, but it's not incumbent on us to write it out and this thing is past its due date. — Llywelyn II   12:11, 9 December 2013 (UTC)


 * Symbol question.svg The program descriptions don't count? If not, let's move on. — Llywelyn II   12:11, 9 December 2013 (UTC)


 * I might try to add some content myself over the next few days, I think it's an interesting topic. Gatoclass (talk) 14:01, 9 December 2013 (UTC)
 * I added some content to the article and it is now up to 2158 characters that are not in the list. There is probably a lot more that could be said though. Some links if anyone is interested (also posted on the article's talk page): official website          Thingg &#8853;&#8855; 22:11, 12 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Good work, Thingg! I will add some more content over the weekend. Gatoclass (talk) 07:51, 13 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Gatoclass/BlueMoonset, I do not see a five day expansion period meeting the expanded at least fivefold within the past five days criteria. There were 3747 prose characters as of the last edit (17 December 2013‎) and x5 that is 18,735 characters. -- Jreferee (talk) 13:13, 23 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Symbol confirmed.svg surprisingly @Jreferee this article isnt an expansion but a "new" article. IT now has sufficient new prose and the hook fact is correct. Lets clear this out as its embarassing to have "new" articles that are months old. Merry Xmas Victuallers (talk) 15:43, 23 December 2013 (UTC)

Why don't we save this for 2014, which is the actual centenary? Early, but not in with Christmas hooks or New Year hooks, with which it would be quite out of sync with. Thanks, Mat  ty. 007 20:36, 23 December 2013 (UTC)