Template:Did you know nominations/Bertie Reed


 * 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: rejected by BlueMoonset (talk) 22:19, 30 April 2014 (UTC)

Nominator doesn't have time to make necessary expansion to article.

Bertie Reed

 * ... that Bertie Reed placed second in the 1982/83 BOC Challenge round the world yacht race, sailing the 14yr old yacht Voortrekker, beating a number of much newer yachts?

Created by Gbawden (talk). Self nominated at 07:07, 2 April 2014 (UTC).


 * ... welcome - I fixed the hook - bit too small - add a paragraph - we need 1500 chars of new pure text Victuallers (talk) 08:14, 3 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Symbol possible vote.svg In case in wasn't clear, Victuallers is asking you to expand the article. It is currently 1026 characters of prose, while the minimum size for DYK to feature an article is 1500 characters. --ThaddeusB (talk) 20:59, 15 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Symbol delete vote.svg It has been over 10 days since nominator received a talk page notification of this nomination's problems and nearly 2 weeks since ThaddeusB's comments and while the nominator has been active during this time, no progress has been made in bringing this article up to the DYK minimum size of 1500 characters of readable prose. --Allen3 talk 11:02, 28 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Sorry didn't check up on this page earlier. Don't have the time now to get it up to 1500 words - let it lapse Gbawden (talk) 11:14, 28 April 2014 (UTC)