Template:Did you know nominations/The Bootmakers of Toronto


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The result was: rejected by The Bushranger One ping only 02:27, 25 December 2017 (UTC)

The Bootmakers of Toronto

 * ... that at their peak in the 1990s, The Bootmakers of Toronto was the largest active Sherlockian society in North America?
 * ALT1:... that The Bootmakers of Toronto take their name from one of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's stories, The Hound of the Baskervilles?

5x expanded by ThaddeusSholto (talk). Self-nominated at 19:17, 19 December 2017 (UTC).
 * Symbol delete vote.svg Not been expanded 5x. The prose size (text only) is 1225 characters (205 words).  FITINDIA   13:40, 21 December 2017 (UTC)
 * COMMENT: And it is still (rightfully) just a Stub. David notMD (talk) 15:32, 21 December 2017 (UTC)


 * COMMENT It was in terrible shape and I'm actually shocked it survived AfD so it was a complete rewrite keeping a mere two sentences and adding the rest from scratch with references and everything. ThaddeusSholto (talk) 19:38, 21 December 2017 (UTC)
 * ThaddeusSholto, you have done some excellent work rewriting the article into something appropriate for Wikipedia. However, it fails to meet two DYK requirements: that the article be at least 1500 prose characters (it's 1227), and that as a pre-existing article, it needs to be expanded to five times its original size. Since it was quite long before you worked your magic, that expansion would require an ultimate size of 23,420 prose characters, something clearly infeasible. The only exception would be if the prior version was almost entirely a copyright violation (which wouldn't count toward the expansion requirement), though 1500 would still be the minimum, and the article cannot be at a stub level. I hope you'll try DYK again; I'm sorry it didn't work out this time. BlueMoonset (talk) 16:17, 22 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the explanation and the compliments. If I find another opportunity to submit to DYK I will have a better idea of the guidelines now. Happy Holidays to you! ThaddeusSholto (talk) 16:21, 22 December 2017 (UTC)