Template:Did you know nominations/Things: A Story of the Sixties


 * 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: rejected by Hawkeye7 (talk) 20:16, 15 September 2014 (UTC)

This article does not qualify for DYK because it is insufficiently expanded.

Things: A Story of the Sixties

 * ... that the first chapter of George Perec's novel Things is entirely devoted to the description of an apartment and its furnishings?
 * ALT1:... that Georges Perec's 1965 novel Things met popular and critical acclaim despite its focus on "the sociology of the quotidian"?
 * ALT2:... that Georges Perec's 1965 novel Things contains only two lines of dialogue between its main characters, both in the epilogue?
 * Reviewed: Statue of Queen Victoria, Sydney

Created/expanded by Moxfyre (talk). Self nominated at 20:22, 28 July 2014 (UTC).


 * Symbol possible vote.svg At the moment, this article does not qualify for DYK because it is insufficiently expanded. Before Moxfyre started the expansion it was 1088 B and now it is 3906 B, an expansion of about 3.9x rather than the necessary fivefold expansion. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:16, 7 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Is there a rule about what does or doesn't count for the expansion? I'm seeing 7,354 bytes now vs 1,353 before I started working on it. —Moxfyre (ǝɹʎℲxoɯ &#124; contrib) 15:46, 7 August 2014 (UTC)


 * Moxfyre, yes, there are rules about what qualifies. Prose characters (including spaces) are what count for DYK, not total bytes. Please see WP:DYK for further details. For example, the infobox, formatting, and references don't count as prose characters. At this point, you need 5440 prose characters for a 5x expansion, and (as noted) have 3906. Do you think another 1536 prose characters will be feasible? BlueMoonset (talk) 20:38, 20 August 2014 (UTC)


 * Symbol delete vote.svg Marking for closure, as there's been no response to the ping here nor to a ping on the nominator's talk page. Moxfyre, you can renominate this for DYK if the article successfully goes through the Good Article nomination process—the GA process doesn't require a certain level of expansion, just a certain level of quality (see what is a good article for the criteria). Best of luck, and sorry DYK didn't work out for you this time. I hope you try again. BlueMoonset (talk) 03:10, 15 September 2014 (UTC)