Template:Did you know nominations/Vatican Telephone Service


 * 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 97198 (talk) 07:00, 2 October 2015 (UTC)

Vatican Telephone Service

 * ...That the Vatican Telephone Service has served Vatican City for 80 years?


 * ALT1:...That the Vatican Telephone Service has served Vatican City's telephone needs for 80 years?
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5x expanded by Fritzmann2002 (talk). Self-nominated at 19:19, 28 September 2015 (UTC).


 * Comment Review under way. 7&amp;6=thirteen (☎) 12:30, 30 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Symbol question.svg Hello! Your submission of Template:Did you know nominations/Vatican Telephone Service is imperfect. After a quick look, I don't think that there was a 5X expansion.  More importantly, I think that the Vatican Telephone Service article is way too short to qualify for a WP:DYK.  As the DYK criteria state: "Articles must have a minimum of 1,500 characters of prose (ignoring infoboxes, categories, references, lists, and tables etc.) The number of characters may be measured using this script (most accurate) or this one or this tool."  My measurement of the article is that it has 310 characters, well below the minimum. Both of these matters need to be addressed if you want this matter to be approved. I have called this to the attention of the nominator Fritzmann2002 on his talk page.  Thank you. 7&amp;6=thirteen (☎) 13:17, 30 September 2015 (UTC)
 * User:7&amp;6=thirteen Thank you for reviewing my nomination. I will do my best to expand the article to the required size. However, I'm not sure I understand the 5X expansion.

Fritzmann2002 14:45, 30 September 2015 (UTC)
 * That may be hard to do. But if you get it to the required size, you would be pretty close to the 5X expansion anyway.
 * FYI, Take a look at the WP:DYK Eligibility requirements regarding the 5X expansion of the number of characters, which is basically a before and after measurement of the prose text without the markup, infoboxes, categories, references, lists, and tables. 7&amp;6=thirteen (☎) 14:51, 30 September 2015 (UTC)
 * I also assuming that WP:QPQ doesn't apply to you, and that you have five or fewer DYKs. In any event, if it does, I can give you one.  7&amp;6=thirteen (☎</b>) 14:54, 30 September 2015 (UTC)
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 * Review Symbol delete vote.svg Too short. Not expanded by 5X.  Am told by nominator that he wishes the nomination to be dropped, as there is a dearth of material. I liked the hook.  Better luck next time. <b style="color:#060">7&amp;6=thirteen</b> (<b style="color:#000">☎</b>) 12:40, 1 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Yes, not enough material to expand. Will hopefully try again with a better article soon, and after I have reviewed some other DYKs. Thank you to 7&6=thirteen for all of his assistance. Fritzmann2002 9:03, 1 October 2015 (UTC)