Template:Did you know nominations/Preparing for a Fancy Dress Ball


 * 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) 05:24, 2 July 2015 (UTC)

Preparing for a Fancy Dress Ball

 * ... that Preparing for a Fancy Dress Ball (pictured) was commissioned from England's foremost painter of nudes by a Conservative Member of Parliament who wanted a picture of his daughters?


 * Reviewed: Shelley Cronau
 * Comment: This makes a virtue of the fact that DYK thumbnails are so small it's not immediately clear what they depict, as hopefully readers will think "surely not" and click-through to read it. The artist (William Etty) is intentionally not in the hook, as his article is in an awful state at present and shouldn't really be linked from the Main Page.

Created by Iridescent (talk). Self-nominated at 09:34, 14 June 2015 (UTC).


 * Symbol voting keep.svg New enough, most certainly long enough. The earwig checker flags it as highly likely to be a copyvio but this is not the case - the redflags are all keywords/phrases that can't be avoided and are frequently repeated. I note that this article was nominated here on the 12th listed as a Feature Article candidate the very next day - where it is already receiving support votes. Nothing wrong with that but WP:NORUSH does come to mind... It's a cleverly worded, if titilating, hook. The sources for it I'll take on good faith as they're in books or behind paywalls but the facts that hook is referring to are cross-referenced throughout the article. Wittylama 15:55, 15 June 2015 (UTC)