Template:Did you know nominations/Halfway (EastEnders)


 * 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 Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 00:17, 23 June 2018 (UTC)

Halfway (EastEnders)

 * ... that actor Tony Clay had his hair cut in a certain way for the role of Halfway in EastEnders? Source is within the article (ref #21)
 * ALT1:... that EastEnders character Halfway was only intended to appear for two months, but returned following a positive response? Source: "I think there was quite a nice reaction online and from people who watched it, from what I was told. ... I got a phone call asking if I'd be willing to come back."
 * ALT4: ... that actor Tony Clay was asked "Dude, what have you done?" on Twitter when his EastEnders character, Halfway, shot a popular character?
 * Reviewed: Mary Burger
 * Comment: Feel free to edit the hooks.

Moved to mainspace by Soaper1234 (talk). Self-nominated at 21:29, 20 May 2018 (UTC).


 * Symbol confirmed.svg Article is new enough and moved into the mainspace with in the correct time frame. Carried out spot checks, all checks out and the article is fully sourced. No block quoting or over use of quotes. Ref provided for both hooks. I prefer ALT 1. Good to go. Rain  the 1  21:38, 23 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Thank you . Soaper1234 - talk  17:54, 24 May 2018 (UTC)


 * Dropped back to noms after a discussion at WT:DYK. Black Kite (talk) 22:01, 29 May 2018 (UTC)
 * *ALT2: ... that EastEnders producers decided to explore a darker side to character Halfway by introducing his brother?
 * How about this instead then? ( Pinging some editors that worked on this before.) Soaper1234 - talk  09:50, 30 May 2018 (UTC)
 * ALT3: ... that actor Tony Clay received several messages on Twitter after his first episode from fans who believed his character Halfway had killed a popular character?  Source: "So obviously, initially when they first saw that episode, they thought: 'Oh my God, they're going to kill Mick off. Is this the end?' My Twitter was absolutely flooded with messages saying: 'Dude, what have you done?'"
 * I think you could do something with "Dude, what have you done?" here.... like "... that actor Tony Clay was asked "dude, what have you done?" on Twitter when his EastEnders character Halfway shot Mick Carter?" I dunno, but something like that.  The Rambling Man (talk) 09:57, 30 May 2018 (UTC)
 * What about phrasing it like this? Soaper1234 - talk  10:39, 30 May 2018 (UTC)
 * ALT4: ... that actor Tony Clay was asked "Dude, what have you done?" on Twitter when his EastEnders character, Halfway, shot a popular character?
 * I'll wait for others to work out the hook. One thought: Could you start a page on Tony Clay? Even it's a stub, it will help the hook from having a redirect in it. Alternately, you could get a double hook out of it. Yoninah (talk) 20:15, 30 May 2018 (UTC)
 * A page was created for him, but it was deleted as it lacked notability. There isn't loads of sources about him out there either so I wouldn't be able to make him an article, sorry. Soaper1234 - talk  21:17, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

I would like you to proceed Alt 4, which an above editor suggested the phrase "Dude, what have you done?" be used in the new hook. I think that is more interesting than the original hooks. I think it is good to go forward with this now. Rain  the 1  21:21, 22 June 2018 (UTC)