Template:Did you know nominations/Douglas Erasmus


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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 18:42, 10 August 2016 (UTC)

Douglas Erasmus

 * ... that South African swimmer Douglas Erasmus met the qualification standard for the 50 metre freestyle at 2016 Summer Olympics by 1/100th of a second?


 * Reviewed: Fried cheese
 * Comment: Can be moved to the Olympic holding area after review. 50m freestyle heats are on 11 August.

Created by Basement12 (talk). Self-nominated at 22:16, 30 May 2016 (UTC).

Almost ready, but I can see a few typos in the article (i.e. "teh heats" and "faster tahn"). More disturbingly, the hook item, about qualifying for the Olympics by less than 1/100th of a second, is not explicitly mentioned in the article. If these problems aren't fixed in three days, I will sadly have to fail this. Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 03:05, 1 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Firstly I've moved your review to the right place ("Please do not write below this line or remove this line. Place comments above this line"), secondly (and more disturbingly) the fact is in the article and has been all along so please try reading it again and looking for "one hundreth of a second" (1/100 is used in the hook to make it shorter) - Ba se me nt 12  (T.C) 07:16, 1 June 2016 (UTC)
 * I know it's there. The problem is that it wasn't explicitly mentioned in the article. Even a short phrase like ("or 1/100th of a second") would have been fine. Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 07:57, 1 June 2016 (UTC)
 * I have literally no idea what your concern is here. By article do you mean the article or the source, because "one hundredth of a second" is mentioned in both in relation to the qualification standard. It's also mentioned again in a second source giving both his time and the qualification time (which I added just in case there was confusion but apparently it didn't stop it from occurring). Or do you somehow think 1/100th of a second and one hundredth of a second are different? - Ba se me nt 12  (T.C) 08:33, 1 June 2016 (UTC)
 * I meant in the article it wasn't explicitly mentioned (at the time) that he qualified by 1/100th of a second, merely what his actual time was. In any case, the article now mentions the margin, and thus I am happy to say that this is a pass. Symbol confirmed.svg Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 08:44, 1 June 2016 (UTC)
 * As I say it was there the whole time, quite literally from the first revision but hey ho, thanks for taking the time to come back and finish the review - Ba se me nt 12  (T.C) 09:17, 1 June 2016 (UTC)