Template:Did you know nominations/Wikipedia:Annual Top 50 Report


 * 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The result was: withdrawn by nominator, closed by BlueMoonset (talk) 06:38, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Annual Top 50 Report

 * ... that the most read Wikipedia article in 2017 was Deaths in 2017?
 * Comment: Item was previously discussed at the relevant talk page. Report is an annualised version of the Top 25 Report, expanded as it is for an entire year and with commentary by multiple authors, rather than just one. Listing would be unorthodox, as the article is in WP space, but I feel that it would be of interest to readers in a DYK manner. Apologies if formatted incorrectly. Data for the report is sourced from here.
 * Reviewed - University of Washington statement
 * Reviewed - University of Washington statement

Created/expanded by Stormy clouds (talk). Self-nominated at 18:35, 2 January 2018 (UTC).


 * Symbol delete vote.svg - Fails on multiple WP:DYK and WP:DYKSG grounds, as the boldlink page is a wholly uncited, OR, POV push, including representing controversial opinion as fact and uncited BLP issues. -- Alanscottwalker (talk) 18:59, 2 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Symbol delete vote.svg - Confirming Alanscottwalker's failure of nomination. Article is 598 characters excluding characters which appear in tables as per WP:WIADYK; this is below the 1500 character minimum. Also, no inline WP:RS in article to confirm hook. Also, some of the content in the linked-to article is unsourced WP:CRYSTALBALL (e.g. "Attendees may very well be caught sneaking a look at the progress of the match on their mobile phones while the royal couple says their vows, and Prince William is expected to attend both.") Also, some of the content is unsourced claims about BLPs (e.g. "He has one good song - one.") Also, nominator is a living person and this article contains unsourced claims about the nominator's past (e.g. "Back in 2012, I was rooting for Elon Musk to achieve his dream of making rocket flights as routine as airplane trips." and "I saw all the scary movies in this report."). There are also NPOV violations (e.g. "Manson finally descended back to the hellish quarters from whence he came, and positively no one mourned."). Finally, because of the current backlog, this will not appear on the mainpage for many weeks, at which point the hook will no longer be interesting, which is the first DYK criteria.Chetsford (talk) 00:44, 3 January 2018 (UTC)