Template:Did you know nominations/Veerapandiya Kattabomman (film)


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The result was: promoted by PanydThe muffin is not subtle 17:28, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

Veerapandiya Kattabomman (film)

 * ... that Sivaji Ganesan became the first Indian film actor to win a "Best Actor" award in an International film festival when he was awarded for Veerapandiya Kattabomman (1959) at the Afro-Asian Film Festival in 1960?


 * Reviewed: To follow Naga mothers

Improved to Good Article status by Ssven2 (talk). Nominated by Vensatry (talk) at 18:54, 7 April 2015 (UTC).


 * Symbol possible vote.svg Starting with matters that are good-to-go: Promoted to GA status on 6 April 2015, within seven days of this nomination. QPQ performed, checks for copyvio reveals no problems (e.g. ), content in the hook is cited in the article to reliable sources, QPQ performed, all images in the article are properly licensed.


 * A problem is that the hook has verbatim paraphrasing of content listed at this source.
 * Hook: "...the first Indian film actor to win a "Best Actor" award in an International film festival"
 * Source: "...the first Indian film actor to win a 'Best Actor' award in an International film festival"


 * As such, the hook needs to be copy edited to correct this matter. North America1000 20:00, 8 April 2015 (UTC)


 * ALT1 ... that Sivaji Ganesan won a "Best Actor" award for Veerapandiya Kattabomman (1959) at the Afro-Asian Film Festival in 1960, becoming the first Indian actor to be awarded in that category in an international film festival? &mdash; Vensatry (ping) 09:14, 9 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Symbol confirmed.svg Good to go with ALT1. North America1000 16:19, 9 April 2015 (UTC)