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Hook length, among others

Spanish Federation of Sports for the Deaf

 * ... that while Spanish Federation of Sports for the Deaf is one of five disability sport organizations making up the Spanish Paralympic Committee, none of its athletes have ever competed at the Paralympic Games?
 * Reviewed: Steve Boros

Moved to mainspace by LauraHale (talk). Self nominated at 10:11, 16 December 2013 (UTC).


 * Looks good, but there is so much red links. Is it good idea? I am not so sure. Perhaps another reviewer will decide. Leszek Jańczuk (talk) 22:46, 16 December 2013 (UTC)


 * Symbol voting keep.svg The article is new enough and long enough and the hook is sourced to Spanish language sources that I accept in good faith. I do not believe the large number of red links is a bar to DYK. (Perhaps the nominator plans to write further articles to turn them blue.) Cwmhiraeth (talk) 07:49, 3 January 2014 (UTC)


 * Symbol possible vote.svg At 207 characters, the hook is clearly too long, and I'm not sure how best to shorten it. (Indeed, I think a "the" is needed before the name of the organization.) I would have been happier if the dead link in the article had been fixed (https://archive.is/5Bopm appears to be an archive link to that article, or perhaps a different one with the same info). I also would have been happier if this article had been given a copyedit: what are the "statues" being talked about? Why is the group variously referred to inconsistently as "its" and "they"? Why is there no explanation in the article of why the federation hasn't had any athletes in the Paralympics—is it that they don't send them there, or that none of them qualify? And how hard is it to ensure that a list of groups is properly separated by commas? BlueMoonset (talk) 20:15, 3 January 2014 (UTC)
 * It's because "deaf" is not a disability that gives you entrance to the Paralympics; no one has ever competed at the Paralympics if their only disability is deafness, no matter if they are Spanish or not. Making the hook technically correct but rather misleading IMO. Fram (talk) 09:41, 6 January 2014 (UTC)


 * Fram, thanks for that information. This basic disconnect between the organization and the Paralympics should be fundamental to the article and explained there; the fact that it is not, in my view, renders the article ineligible for promotion to the main page as failing to "deal adequately with the topic" per the DYK criteria. If this isn't addressed, the article will be rejected. BlueMoonset (talk) 16:23, 6 January 2014 (UTC)


 * Symbol delete vote.svg It's been ten days without any attempt to address the issue despite a notice on LauraHale's talk page. Given the current controversy over her poor translations of Spanish source material and her failure to address a single DYK issue she's been informed of there in many weeks, I see no point in keeping this open any longer. Closing nomination as unsuccessful. BlueMoonset (talk) 05:05, 14 January 2014 (UTC)