Template:Did you know nominations/John Turner
- 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: rejected by Hawkeye7 (talk) 20:09, 22 September 2020 (UTC)
please see WP:GAN. If you can steer this article through that review process and get a GA rating, you can then bring it over here and nominate it at DYK
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John Turner
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Former Canadian Prime Minister John Turner
- ... that former prime minister John Turner set the Canadian 100-yard dash record in 1947? Source: [1] [2]
- ALT1:... that former prime minister John Turner held the Canadian 100-yard dash for running in 9.8 seconds? Source: [3] [4]
- ALT2:... that former prime minister John Turner held the Canadian 100-yard dash for running in 9.8 seconds in 1947? Source: [5] [6]
- Comment: This is my first DYK nomination; If there is any procedural miss or if I have done something incorrectly, please assist me. Specifically, I didn't know what date to use. Since we worked recently on making some improvements at WP:ITNRD yesterday, I have used that date. However, if I need to do something different, please let me know. Thanks in advance.
Nominated by Ktin (talk). Self-nominated at 14:47, 21 September 2020 (UTC).
Unfortunately, DYK requires articles to either be new (this article was created in 2002), a GA (article is not and currently not under nomination), or expanded 5x recently (has not, and considering the current length and depth unlikely to ever be). Hence it fails - I would recomment getting it to GA status before renominating. Juxlos (talk) 15:43, 21 September 2020 (UTC)
- Juxlos, pardon my missing out on that important step. I misunderstood that the DYK process is about surfacing interesting facts etc. However, it seems like the objective is that plus showcasing articles that have changed status (e.g. GA, 5x updates, new creates). Please recommend what needs to be done to this nomination to be respectful of others' time. Thanks for your patience. Ktin (talk) 15:56, 21 September 2020 (UTC)
- I have failed this nomination as I do not expect it to be viable to do either of the criteria within the next, say, month. The best shot would be to nominate the article for GA and then once passed immediately repeat this nomination. A fivefold expansion is not viable and article is already made. Juxlos (talk) 16:01, 21 September 2020 (UTC)
