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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: promoted by SL93 (talk20:57, 5 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Created by Bilorv (talk). Self-nominated at 16:13, 21 March 2021 (UTC).[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough

Policy compliance:

Hook eligibility:

  • Cited: Yes
  • Interesting: No - I don't really get the "The Trick" in the ALT0 (and in the article), that needs more elaboration. ALT1 and ALT2 are okay.
QPQ: Done.

Overall: See above. Regards SoWhy 11:00, 4 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

  • Thanks for the review. I can't eliminate the quoting entirely, and some degree of it is standard in all the quality-reviewed book articles I've seen or worked on. But I agree that there was significant overreliance on quotes, so I've tried to rewrite in my own words everywhere except where it's difficult to do so without close paraphrasing, taking a person out of context or introducing neutrality concerns. I'm not sure what I can say to describe Turnbull other than "a BBC morning news presenter" (already present). "The Trick" is essentially just their slang term for patriarchy (the particular conception of patriarchy that he and his wife have). This was quite unclear, so I've rephrased in the article and suggested an alt below in line with that.
Bilorv (talk) 01:26, 5 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
I'm marking this ready with the changes and ALT3 is acceptable too. @Bilorv: As for Bill Turnbull, as someone not familiar with this person, reading that particular part of the article leaves me confused why Webb would single out Turnbull as the one to explain it to. Is Turnbull someone who is particularly hard to convince? Is he the "average guy" stand-in? Maybe that can be elaborated more for people like me. Regards SoWhy 15:32, 5 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Anything more is original research on my part. I think the description as an "average guy stand-in" is pretty accurate. To say he's recognisable to most people in Britain would be an understatement (he's more known than any American news host would be in America because we have only two dominant breakfast news channels), but for anyone outside, "BBC morning news presenter" conveys the majority of the relevant information in this thought. — Bilorv (talk) 16:10, 5 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]