Template:Did you know nominations/Benchmark (game show)


 * 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 Yoninah (talk) 23:03, 20 June 2015 (UTC)

Benchmark (game show)

 * ... that Paddy McGuinness struggled with the two-a-day format of Benchmark and found himself phoning Bradley Walsh as to how it was possible?


 * Comment: I've marked it as expanded because I couldn't be bothered to work out when the stub was created. It may be new enough.
 * Comment: I've marked it as expanded because I couldn't be bothered to work out when the stub was created. It may be new enough.

5x expanded by Launchballer (talk). Self-nominated at 21:25, 1 June 2015 (UTC).


 * Symbol possible vote.svg The original stub, as created on May 20, was 644 characters of readable prose. This was cut down by an IP editor later that day, leaving the short stub from which expansion by the nominator began. The current article is 2744 characters, well beyond 5x expansion of the then-extant stub but not from its original form just hours earlier. The hook fact itself is properly sourced but misleadingly worded. (I have boldly fixed the article already.) The program is recorded two-per-day but only airs once per day, a schedule common to game show production, so the "two-a-day format" phrase in the hook needs rewording. On sourcing, the bulk of the article is apparently sourced to the show's official website. (I say apparently because the existing citation was broken and also lacked a weblink.) Unfortunately, the detailed discussion of gameplay and other factors cited to this reference are not mentioned on the official site. - Dravecky (talk) 21:50, 11 June 2015 (UTC)
 * No, that reference wasn't broken, that was a source to the first episode of the show. I like to think my references are reasonably clear and unbroken so it's highly irritating to see it being replaced by an irrelevant URL. I wasn't aware of the 644 characters but by simply copying the previous content, without further editing, brings the total up to 3101 characters - just 119 characters short. I'll deal with that, and the bare URLs, when I log on tomorrow morning.-- Laun  chba  ller  22:44, 11 June 2015 (UTC)
 * The citation was, indeed, broken and is now broken again. cite episode requires both | series= and | title= parameters to be filled in or it reports an error. If your intention was to cite the first episode of the show, please update your citation to indicate that specific episode. - Dravecky (talk) 23:44, 11 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Everything fixed.
 * ALT1: ... that Paddy McGuinness struggled with the two-a-day recording format of Benchmark and found himself phoning Bradley Walsh to ask how he did it?-- Laun  chba  ller  11:10, 12 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Symbol voting keep.svg Okay, the sourcing is much improved and the ALT1 hook is clearer and of reasonable length. Prose is up to 2974 characters which is still just shy of the 3220 needed for true 5x expansion but more than enough for expansion from the stub as the nominator found it. In good faith, I believe this to be ready to go. (A bit more prose would garner an unambiguous green check.) - Dravecky (talk) 04:02, 13 June 2015 (UTC)
 * I took it to 3315 characters last night; seems the IP who removed content before has struck again. Please review his edits and tell me whether or not I was unreasonable in reverting them.-- Laun  chba  ller  10:29, 13 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Symbol confirmed.svg With true 5x expansion, this is good to go. - Dravecky (talk) 13:12, 13 June 2015 (UTC)