Template:Did you know nominations/Development of Spock


 * 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  MPJ  -DK 01:28, 3 September 2016 (UTC)

Development of Spock

 * ... that during the development of Spock, both DeForest Kelley and Martin Landau were offered the role before Leonard Nimoy (pictured)?


 * ALT1:... that during the early development of Spock, Leonard Nimoy (pictured) was concerned the fake ears made him look like an "overgrown jackrabbit"?
 * ALT2:... that early in the development of Spock (Leonard Nimoy pictured), the character was half-Martian, but this was changed due to concerns that a Mars landing could take place?
 * Reviewed: Joe Clarke (canoeist)
 * Comment: For the Star Trek 50th Anniversary on September 8th. This article has a bit of a history - it was moved to mainspace just over a week ago but was speedily deleted the same day. This has since been overturned and moved back to mainspace.

Created by Miyagawa (talk). Self-nominated at 21:30, 15 August 2016 (UTC).

Good 2 go review by— Maile (talk) 14:22, 18 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Symbol question.svg - "Fascinating...."  Really.  I started to read it to review here, but it needs work first.  As noted by the edit history, I started to correct what I believe to be minor errors, but there are many.  I only got as far as the end of the section "Where No Man Has Gone Before" and the first season. The errors I did not correct, as far as I got, were:
 * "Actors who read for the part included Victor Lundin, and both Rex Holman and Miguelito Loveless were considered." - Miguelito Loveless was a fictional character on The Wild Wild West.
 * "were concerned that views would not wish to associate with an alien character" - Did you mean "viewers"?
 * "He had partially convinced that it would have been preferable to have perminent plastic surgery" - Convinced whom? Also, typo therein.
 * I would be more than happy to complete the review on this Fascinating article, but I would like you to first go back through this and copyedit what needs to be corrected. Also, I ran the Earwig tool, and it came up with a high rate of copyvio. The first three I checked were a "false positive" in that what it flagged as a copyvio were actually quotes.  I haven't checked the others on the Earwig results.  Please go back through the article and see what needs to be fixed.  I really love that you wrote this, and hope you work it up to FAC.  When you're done, ping me and I'll come back and finish the review. — Maile  (talk) 21:06, 17 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the kind words. The Loveless thing is what I get for not watching The Wild Wild West and failing to recognise the difference between the name of the actor and the character in the source. Needless to say, I've swapped them over now. I've gone through and conducted a further copyedit on the article. I recognise that there are still gaps - I can spot that I haven't mentioned mind melds, or the Vulcan nerve pinch yet, nor anything on The Animated Series. I'm probably not going to try for GAN until after the anniversary yet, but I ran forward with this as I figured it'd create the possibility of a Spock image on the front page for the anniversary itself through DYK. Miyagawa (talk) 22:22, 17 August 2016 (UTC)
 * I verify that you went through and made various edits fixes and tweaks. — Maile (talk) 14:22, 18 August 2016 (UTC)


 * Review by Maile
 * QPQ
 * August 15, 2016 QPQ review by Miyagawa has not been used by him as a QPQ on any previous nomination
 * Eligibility
 * Article has 32,912 characters (0 words) "readable prose size"
 * Article was created by Miyagawa August 7, 2016, Speedy Deleted by RHaworth the same date
 * Speedy Delete was overturned by Sandstein on August 15, and article was restored
 * Article is NPOV, currently stable, no dispute tags
 * Sourcing
 * Every paragraph sourced inline, both offline and online
 * Citations are appropriately formatted
 * No bare URLs
 * Hook
 * Hook is 119 characters, NPOV, stated in the article and sourced
 * ALT1 is 141 characters, NPOV, stated in the article and sourced
 * ALT2 is 170 characters, NPOV, stated in the article and sourced
 * Image
 * Image used in hook is PD licensed on Commons
 * Tools
 * Earwig's Copyvio Detector returns "false positive" in that it shows article quotes as copyvios. No other issues of concern were found by Earwig's tool.
 * Labs Dup Detector is currently not functional.
 * Dab solver (Disambig links tool) says there are no disambiguation links in the article

The article passes, I'll move the nom to the holding area. — Maile (talk) 14:22, 18 August 2016 (UTC)