Template:Did you know nominations/Bangkok Marathon


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The result was: promoted by The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 20:16, 1 January 2016 (UTC)

Bangkok Marathon

 * ... that 2015 Bangkok Half Marathon became 27.6 km instead of traditional 21 km?


 * ALT1: ... that the Guardian called 2015 Bangkok Half Marathon as "world's longest half marathon"?
 * ALT2: ... that finishers of 2015 Bangkok Half Marathon got T-shirts saying "Finisher of the 27.6 km"?
 * Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Russia-Syria-Iran-Iraq Coalition

Created by Human3015 (talk). Self-nominated at 07:12, 26 November 2015 (UTC).

Article was written within 7 days of DYK nomination (barely, but in), it's about 1900 characters of prose, and complies with policy. Well-written. Great hook, especially ALT1, but needs a little copyediting how about: "... that the Guardian called the 2015 Bangkok Half Marathon the "world's longest half marathon"? or omit the Guardian and just say, "... that the 2015 Bangkok Half Marathon was called the "world's longest half marathon"? In any case it's a 99th percentile catchy hook and should be able to get through really soon. -- Michael Scott Cuthbert (talk) 21:32, 19 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your review. Based on your suggestion I propose new hook,
 * ALT3... that the 2015 Bangkok Half Marathon was called the "world's longest half marathon"?

There are obviously some more sources who called this half marathon as "longest half marathon" so there is no need to mention Guardian specifically. Thanks for suggestion. -- Human 3015   TALK   15:01, 20 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Symbol confirmed.svg I made two little grammar copyedits to ALT3 ("the 2015" and "was called the"). Hope that's okay. Good to go for me. -- Michael Scott Cuthbert (talk) 15:19, 20 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Symbol possible vote.svg First, no approved DYK should have bare URLs for references, per WP:DYKSG. These must be fixed. Second, there are significant issues with the prose in the article: one major one is that the word "the" is missing much of the time when it should be used, much like what was the case with ALT3 before it was copyedited. (For example, sentences start with "Marathon" or "Course", when "The marathon" or "The course" is how they should start.) The intro has additional grammatical issues. The prose needs to markedly improve before the article is ready for the main page; I'm puzzled as to why the original review described it as "well-written", since that does not match what I have read. BlueMoonset (talk) 03:52, 21 December 2015 (UTC)
 * ✅.-- Human 3015   TALK   20:39, 24 December 2015 (UTC)
 * I've just made significant edits to the article, correcting the various distances and standardizing on km first, miles second. I've struck the original hook because its wording isn't quite accurate, ALT1 because it's been replaced by ALT3, and ALT2 because the quote isn't quite right and while the articles say that the race organizers were going to do this, I don't see a source that indicates that the t-shirts were distributed and received by racers. BlueMoonset (talk) 21:38, 28 December 2015 (UTC)


 * Symbol redirect vote 4.svg New reviewer needed to recheck the entire article and new ALT3 hook; original review had issues. Thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 21:38, 28 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Symbol confirmed.svg This article is new enough and long enough. The ALT3 hook is acceptable and has an inline citation. The problems mentioned above have been addressed, the article is neutral, and I detected no copyright issues. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:36, 1 January 2016 (UTC)