User:Tamzin/The ones I never put up for DYK

As of 11 March 2024, I've written 32 non-list articles. 24 of those articles have run at Did you know, with a 25th nomination pending. Another 3 were ineligible (1 ran at In the news instead, 1 is a stub, and 1 is an expansion that didn't hit fivefold). I'd like to write a brief something about the other 4, though, because I think we don't talk enough about when you shouldn't nominate something for DYK. And I'm not saying these are all cases where it would have been definitely wrong to nominate, but they are all, at least, cases where I chose not to, and maybe there's something to be learned from that.
 * Bombing of Borodianka: A lot of facts were still unclear when I wrote this, and I hadn't done much research beyond what I translated from the French Wikipedia, so I couldn't say confidently that the article was neutral. DYK was enforcing stricter vetting of Russia–Ukraine articles at the time, but even if it hadn't been, I don't think I would have nominated this.
 * Disappearance of Ana Walshe: True crime is an absolute nightmare at DYK, and I'm honestly of the opinion that no articles about recent violent crimes (that lack political significance) should run at DYK unless they've passed good article scrutiny. I got this article into a shape that I thought was decent, but it's still a WP:BLP minefield and has no business on the Main Page.
 * Interdiction of MV Matthew. Honestly, this one could have run if things had gone a little differently. It's a recent crime but I don't name any of the accused; it's more narrative-driven than person-driven. But, I'd only written about the raid itself, and not the subsequent criminal charges. I was kind of busy. I asked a friend to handle that part and they were kind of busy. The seven-day mark sailed past (heh) and that was that. It happens.
 * F1NN5TER: Politically sensitive BLP that meets the general notability guideline but doesn't exactly have top-tier sourcing. With better sources I would have nominated, Main Page–driven vandalism be damned. But as it stood, better to keep the article a bit more obscure.