Talk:Council Working Party

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A fact from Council Working Party appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 2 October 2024 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that while Council Working Parties only formally prepare decisions of the Council of the European Union, they de facto shape the majority of those decisions?

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The result was: promoted by SL93 talk 22:54, 23 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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... that while Council Working Parties formally only prepare decisions by the Council of the European Union, they de facto shape the majority of those decisions? Source: Häge 2016, p. 686 "Formally, working parties only ‘prepare’ the ministers’ work, but de facto, they make the majority of Council decisions."
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Tamurbek Dawletschin ~~(claimed, not done)~~ (done)

Created by WatkynBassett (talk) on 5 August 2024. Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 25 past nominations.

WatkynBassett (talk) 07:47, 11 August 2024 (UTC).[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Munfarid1 (talk) 11:54, 17 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, @WatkynBassett: Even if your hook is ok, I think a second one, shorter and more interesting, could be based on Melzer's claim that democratic control of their work is difficult to achieve. - How about formulating an ALT1, so the user who will perpare this for DYK will have a choice? After all, we want people to be hooked to read the article, so a critical view of the working groups could be appropriate. Munfarid1 (talk) 16:47, 17 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

- @Munfarid1: Thank you for taking the time to review the article and your suggestion! I am, however, a bit sceptical whether building a hook from this critical view is wise. I think we would have to attribute this view to a specific person (as I have recently experienced while a different hook of mine was prepared in a queue) and I find hooks with specific attribution a bit clunky to read). WatkynBassett (talk) 05:29, 18 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]