Template:Did you know nominations/Jacaranda, University of Sydney


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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 22:35, 14 November 2016 (UTC)

Jacaranda, University of Sydney

 * ... University of Sydney students might fail if they had not started studying by the time the jacaranda tree bloomed? ["Australians mourn tree that 'failed' university students" + two supporting footnotes in the article]
 * Reviewed: Eider Canal
 * Comment: Recently newsworthy, as the tree died on October 28. The proposed hook is trying to imply that the relationship between the tree and exams is a folk-tale while still being intruiging by using the word "might". An alternative might be to add something like "Folklore at the university of Sydney says that..." but then the hook could get quite long.

Created/expanded by Whiteghost.ink (talk) and Wittylama (talk). Nominated by Wittylama (talk) at 13:51, 2 November 2016 (UTC).


 * Symbol confirmed.svg An "if" at the start of the hook removed, to make sense. Long, new & neutral enough. Hook ref checks out. Pic ok to use. Earwig says "Violation Unlikely, 18.0%"; nothing significant picked up. If it was me, I might move to "Jacaranda tree, University of Sydney" so it doesn't sound like a place name. Johnbod (talk) 13:30, 5 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the review. to a certain degree the Jacaranda is a place name - if you talk about the jacaranda at the University then there really is only one thing you could mean and therefore it was often a place people would arrange to meet (and take photos at graduation) I don't object to adding "tree" to the title, I just think that it isn't needed until such time as there's some other part of the university that it would need to be disamibguated from - such as a building or publication. Wittylama 08:56, 11 November 2016 (UTC)