Template:Did you know nominations/Abortion in Lithuania
- The following discussion 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 BlueMoonset (talk) 14:42, 4 November 2013 (UTC)
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Abortion in Lithuania
[edit]- ... that despite 84 percent of Lithuanians supporting abortion, the government is taking steps towards banning it?
Moved to mainspace by Thine Antique Pen (talk). Self nominated at 19:14, 27 September 2013 (UTC).
Most things check out. My one concern is whether or not these "steps towards banning it" have progressed in the four months since the source was published - is the article still sufficiently up-to-date? Additional and recent sources may be difficult to come by. violet/riga [talk] 20:33, 30 September 2013 (UTC)
I would rather not have the exact figure on the main page without at least some hedging; see talk page for details. QVVERTYVS (hm?) 18:46, 24 October 2013 (UTC)
- I've just pinged Thine Antique Pen for a response, though without much hope as it's been a full month since TAP's last edit. I think the article could use a copyedit. The hook might be finessed by adding "a poll showing" after "despite", but I think the sweeping use of "the government" in the hook and article is not warranted by the source: that usually refers to the prime minister and other ministers, while the source only mentions it being introduced by a minority party in parliament, and while it passed the parliament initially, there's no indication that the current government is actively supporting it. (I'd also like those more recent sources violet/riga was asking for.) If there isn't action soon, I don't think we'll have any choice but to close the nomination as unsuccessful. BlueMoonset (talk) 04:07, 27 October 2013 (UTC)
