Template:Did you know nominations/Forty Five Hundred Times


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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 21:32, 13 January 2018 (UTC)

Forty Five Hundred Times
* ... that "Forty Five Hundred Times" was Rick Parfitt's (pictured) favourite guitar moment in Status Quo? Source: [interviwer] "What are your own favourite guitar moments?" [Parfitt] "The one that comes to mind is Forty-Five Hundred Times. I'll always remember sitting there doing it, getting goosepimples." 
 * Reviewed: Good Omens (TV series)
 * Comment: A "shoot the moon" DYK this one in tribute to Rick Parfitt, that has little of chance of getting listed in the timeframe given, but if you don't ask you don't get. Article is currently at AfD (see Articles for deletion/Forty Five Hundred Times) and is not obviously going to close as "keep" right now, but most !votes were lodged before the expansion. The hook would be ideal to run on 24 December, the first anniversary of Parfitt's death - if that's not posssible (and it probably isn't), maybe save it for 12 October 2018 which would have been Parfitt's 70th birthday.

5x expanded by Ritchie333 (talk). Self-nominated at 13:57, 20 December 2017 (UTC).


 * will review - will review after deletion discussion that is, ping me please --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:58, 21 December 2017 (UTC)
 * I never pictured you as a closet Quo headbanger, Gerda. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont)  10:39, 22 December 2017 (UTC)
 * 24 Dec is full, and the other too far in the future, and I am not supposed to be amused about the images people nurture about me ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:37, 22 December 2017 (UTC)
 * AfD closed as keep. - The Bushranger One ping only 01:16, 28 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Symbol question.svg Interesting music and history, on good sources, offline sources accepted AGF, no copyvio obvious. The image is licensed and a good illustration. - Article: I'd like a bit more lead, about what makes it special. (Not needed for an approval, but think about it.) - Formality: please copy the ref for the hook to the very sentence. - Hook: can we polish? Sorry, not every reader will have heard the name, so can we please mention that he was among the authors and performers? Somehow? Please get rid of the possesive if you want (pictured), because it breaks the flow. - I got two GAs approved today, and the third is in making: happy music, also for you (yes, everybody who reads this)! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:32, 28 December 2017 (UTC)
 * I added a bit more to the lead, the Music Radar source is used for the sentence given in the article (as per the hook), and Status Quo are a national treasure in the UK; explaining who they are would seem redundant. As for the rest, I'm not sure exactly what you're getting at. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont)  22:21, 3 January 2018 (UTC)
 * I know the feeling when you mention someone who you think everybody knows, and then they don't. The hook tells someone who doesn't know background only that Parfitt played, not that he was one of the writers, and that it was a team work. We have a broad international readership who may never have heard of Status Quo. I didn't mean to explain the group, just him writing. - Aesthetics: I am no friend of "Rick Parfitt's (pictured) favourite", very generally so, - I mean this pictured interrupting the possessive and what it "possesses". I could try and reword for you, but then we need a new reviewer. Idea: "... that Rick Parfitt (pictured) wrote "Forty Five Hundred Times" with Francis Rossi and called it his favourite guitar moment with Status Quo? Your turn to make it English. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:37, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

Third opinion requested. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont)  22:21, 3 January 2018 (UTC)


 * I took the ALT proposed by Gerda and placed it below to make it easier for a promoter to place it into a set. Mifter (talk) 04:39, 4 January 2018 (UTC)


 * ALT1 ... that Rick Parfitt (pictured) wrote "Forty Five Hundred Times" with Francis Rossi and called it his favourite guitar moment with Status Quo?


 * Symbol confirmed.svg - Length, Date, Cite, QPQ, and Earwigs check. Image is freely licensed from a Wikimedian.  ALT1 approved.  Mifter (talk) 04:39, 4 January 2018 (UTC)