User:Vanished user adhmfdfmykrdyr/DYK pass fail

One of the things I have been led to understand it you should avoid doing older DYK nominations on T:TDYK that have not been reviewed. If they are there, they are likely there because there is some problem that scares people from reviewing them. I'm planning on nominating twenty articles for DYK in the next week or two. As these are my articles, I will be required to review some articles before I can submit. I decided to work from the oldest unreviewed articles first. An acquaintance asked how many of these I failed and how problematic these nominations were given they had not been reviewed. I reviewed 21 articles on 20 and 21 February UTC+11.

The above table are my notes regarding these reviews. Of the 21 I reviewed, 14 articles passed with out requiring any sort of intervention. Of the 14 that I passed, 12 have already moved to the prep area. 2/3rds of articles had no major obstacles when I was reviewing. (It might be worth noting that two of these did have comments on the talk page, which required at least one fix to the wording of the DYK after it had been moved to the prep area.) This seems like a pretty decent percentage of articles having no problems with nominations. Of the seven articles having issues, two had issues related to length. One's issues were so severe it won't pass. Another one is close enough that it might be okay to send over the line, but will require a move to the prep area person's discretion to ignore all rules. One article has been nominated for deletion. One had tags present. Another one was not fully sourced. When the unsourced material was removed, the article was too short. Another article had possible neutrality issues. The last one required a better hook. The not immediately passed ones had an array of problems: It was not one type of problem for everyone. Of the seven not passed, two will probably become DYKs, one will fail, one will probably fail, and the future of three of them is unclear.

Don't let old unreviewed DYK nominations scare you. Go to the top of the page and work down when finding an article to review.