Template:Did you know nominations/Mercedes-Benz EQ-Class


 * 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 Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:41, 17 January 2017 (UTC)

Mercedes-Benz EQ-Class

 * ... that Mercedes-Benz expects its EQ family of battery electric vehicles to represent up to 25% of its global sales by 2025?
 * ALT1:... that Mercedes-Benz intends to invest €10 billion for the design and development of the EQ battery electric vehicles?
 * ALT2:... that Mercedes-Benz intends to release ten models in the EQ family of battery electric vehicles by 2025?
 * Reviewed: Telescript (programming language) (see my DYK tracker)

Created by Mindmatrix (talk). Self-nominated at 21:08, 1 December 2016 (UTC).


 * Symbol question.svg Was new enough when proposed; plenty long enough; referenced. All of the hooks are short enough, and supported by refs in the article. I think ALT2 is the best of the hooks, but there is a discrepancy between "intends to" in the hook, "will" in the article, and "want to" in the ref/quote that could do with resolving before this goes on the main page.
 * Also: the article is also rather lead-heavy (most of it could do with moving into a separate section on the class), and the referencing system seems a bit odd (if each ref is only used once, then sfn doesn't offer any benefits over standard inline referencing - and just makes the article longer as you have two lines per ref). Maybe could tidy the article up a bit accordingly? Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 14:58, 1 January 2017 (UTC)
 * My original hooks stated "will" to match the article, but another editor changed it to "intends to" in this edit. Some of the sources state "will", the Yahoo article quotes Weber saying "wants to" (perhaps this was translated, as he was speaking to a German journalist). I've changed the text to "intends to", which is sufficiently similar to "wants to" and removes the definitive "will". Regarding the referencing, it's just force of habit; I use a common layout for all my articles, and I adopted this particular version because many of the refs I usually cite are books or journals. (I also prefer this format because it moves all the reference text outside the main text, making the main text easier to edit.) I'll change this if you think it's warranted. I've split some of the text into a "Class" section as requested (see this diff). Mind  matrix  20:41, 4 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Nevermind about the refs - I changed the format in this edit. Mind  matrix  20:45, 4 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Symbol confirmed.svg Great, I think this is ready to go! On the refs, you can still keep the reference text outside of the main text with this system, see this edit to the article. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 07:57, 5 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Note that someone has raised a concern about the article's title. See Talk:Mercedes-Benz EQ-Class. This shouldn't be promoted until that discussion resolves. Mind  matrix  23:11, 6 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Agreed, although it looks like it is a straightforward concern to resolve (just drop '-Class'). Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 07:06, 7 January 2017 (UTC)
 * I've moved the page to Mercedes-Benz EQ, which is the most sensible target in my opinion. Mind  matrix  02:39, 9 January 2017 (UTC)
 * OK, back to Symbol confirmed.svg status. :-) Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 06:18, 9 January 2017 (UTC)