Template:Did you know nominations/Death of Nelson Mandela

Death of Nelson Mandela

 * ... that the death and state funeral of Nelson Mandela was announced by the President of South Africa?
 * Reviewed: No review required (not a self-nomination).

Created by Another Believer (talk). Nominated by Tentinator (talk) at 22:17, 8 December 2013 (UTC).


 * I don't think this is ready. It has two cleanup tags and is practically entirely quotes.  Taylor Trescott  - my talk + my edits 22:40, 8 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Symbol possible vote.svg Not to mention that the hook above is really boring, not catchy and uninteresting. —Bloom6132 (talk) 20:32, 9 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Symbol redirect vote 4.svg The cleanup tags have been removed.


 * ALT ... that the sign language interpreter for the state memorial service of Nelson Mandela made meaningless hand gestures that did not reflect established signs?   Tentinator    08:05, 14 December 2013 (UTC)


 * Symbol delete vote.svg I believe this article has already been ITN on December 10, which would make it ineligible for DYK — Maile (talk) 15:44, 26 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Symbol redirect vote 4.svg Death and state funeral of Nelson Mandela was never a featured ITN article. Main Page history/2013 December 10    Tentinator    16:51, 26 December 2013 (UTC)

Date, length and hook all OK. I think the original is quite boring and the Alt is better so it's good to go for ALT.  The C of E God Save the Queen!  ( talk ) 22:16, 4 January 2014 (UTC)


 * This article has already been viewed more than 56k times. Let's give the exposure to another article. In the spirit of the ITN rule, I would decline promoting this nom to the prep area. Furthermore, the article was developed by many contributors. The {DYKmake} credit should be given to more than just one user. This needs to be sorted out beforehand if we are really bringing this article back to MainPage. --PFHLai (talk) 02:37, 5 January 2014 (UTC)