Template:Did you know nominations/Floortje Mackaij
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The result was: promoted by 97198 (talk) 10:54, 16 August 2014 (UTC)
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Floortje Mackaij[edit]
- ... that cyclist Floortje Mackaij (pictured) started her career with speed skating?
Created by Sander.v.Ginkel (talk). Self nominated at 20:55, 15 July 2014 (UTC).
- 1: Article created on nomination date, meets New criteria. About 2000 prose characters so long enough. Sourcing appears good for DYK, though recommend trying to get some more secondary sources for future article growth.
- 2: Hook is short enough. Fact is citable to athlete's own webpage, but I can verify against other sources eg [1]. Hook content is interesting.
- 3: Picture is free and from commons, and shows person directly. Nominator only has 2 DYK per QPQ tool, so no need for a review here.
Appears ready to go --MASEM (t) 17:05, 16 July 2014 (UTC)
Masem, I think you should go ahead and change the cite, as independent sources are always preferred over primary refs. Also, did you check for close paraphrasing? Yoninah (talk) 23:35, 16 July 2014 (UTC)
- I just checked several statements from the different sources (having to go through Google Translate) but even considering the langauage translation, nothing appears off (eg not close paraphrasing). The only problem with the source I linked is that it is not quite independent as it is the newsletter of the current cycling team that she is on. But given this is a personal fact that I've seen repeated in different phrasing from her personal bio page, the team's current info page, this newsletter, and few other places, as well as reading of other speed skaters using cycling for off-season training, I don't think there's a problem with the fact (it's something she can personally related); the sourcing concern is only with growing out the article as to not rest too much on her personal webpage for some details. --MASEM (t) 01:48, 17 July 2014 (UTC)
- I started searching for some more sources confirming that she started with speed skating. I think the best one is her profile on her team page wich is also in English. Besides of that I found some secondary sources about her speed skating performances, 2 examples (in Dutch): here and here Sander.v.Ginkel (talk) 07:21, 17 July 2014 (UTC)
- Masem Is this nom ready to go? Hawkeye7 (talk) 20:49, 4 August 2014 (UTC)
- I fixed an issues raised by the reviewer and improved the article. I can't however answer your question because I'm the nominator. Sander.v.Ginkel (talk) 22:26, 4 August 2014 (UTC)
- Good to go then. Hawkeye7 (talk) 04:10, 9 August 2014 (UTC)
