Talk:Michita Sakata

A fact from Michita Sakata appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 27 July 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Michita Sakata declined an offer to be Prime Minister of Japan because he thought the role was too political?

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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 MeegsC (talk) 12:01, 24 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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... that Michita Sakata, a self-described amateur in defense policy, accepted his appointment as Director of the Defense Agency of Japan because he wanted to focus on topics such as the education of soldiers? Igarashi, Takeshi. "Michita Sakata Oral History Interview". National Security Archive. George Washington University. Retrieved 14 May 2021.
- ALT1:... that Michita Sakata did not want to be a potential Prime Minister of Japan because he thought the role was too political? Purnendra, Jain (2018). "Changing Security Policies in Postwar Japan: The Political Biography of Japanese Defense Minister Sakata Michita". Japanese Studies. 38 (3): 377–9. doi:10.1080/10371397.2018.1518115. p. 377.

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Moved to mainspace by Roniius (talk). Self-nominated at 12:08, 15 June 2021 (UTC).[reply]

Roniius This nomination requires a QPQ review to be done. Please do one when you get a chance. Joseph2302 (talk) 16:58, 5 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Full review needed now that QPQ has been supplied. BlueMoonset (talk) 23:37, 16 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The article is new enough to pass, has 8,261 characters — higher than the required 1,500 characters, is neutral, has an adequete amount of in-line citations, and doesn't have any major problems with copyright violations. Quid pro quo is satisfied. As for the the hooks, I believe ALT 1 would be the better hook as I believe its information would be more interesting to a broad audience. It is neutral and I can definately verify the information as true as it is cited to an accessible source. However, I do believe that before finishing off the review that the hook be slightly rewritten to clarify that he declined an offer to be Prime Minister, not just that he didn't want to be a potential one. Something like: Lazman321 (talk) 04:40, 20 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

ALT 2: ... that Michita Sakata declined an offer to be Prime Minister of Japan because he thought the role was too political? Purnendra, Jain (2018). "Changing Security Policies in Postwar Japan: The Political Biography of Japanese Defense Minister Sakata Michita". Japanese Studies. 38 (3): 377–9. doi:10.1080/10371397.2018.1518115. p. 377.

Proposed ALT2 is good. Roniius^{talk to me} 07:29, 20 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Alright, ALT 2 can be approved then. Lazman321 (talk) 13:23, 20 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The new hook needs to be approved by an independent reviewer due to the new fact ("declined") incorporated by the original reviewer in their ALT 2 proposal. BlueMoonset (talk) 14:59, 20 July 2021 (UTC) (expanded at 00:40, 21 July 2021 (UTC))[reply]

Alt2 looks interesting to me. The article passes DYKCheck and there are no copyright issues. QPQ has been provided. I've no access to T&F, so I assume good faith on that. Good to go. ─ The Aafī ^{^(talk)} 12:32, 21 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]