Template:Did you know nominations/Leeds 13

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The result was: promoted by AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 09:31, 18 July 2023 (UTC)

Leeds 13

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... that the Leeds 13 made a hoax pretending to go on vacation with donation money for an art exhibition which the British press accidentally believed was true? Source: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/25876 , https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002137/19980517/036/0011 , https://www.rte.ie/radio/doconone/646189-the-curious-ear-grandart , and more
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- Comment: If there's a better way to word the hook then do tell.
...that without creating any fine art objects for a second year, members of the Leeds 13 student artist collective were still first class?
- Comment: Thanks for your interest. My suggestion goes a bit wider. Leeds 13 were fine art students who did not produce any fine art objects in the last two years of their degrees but still graduated with top honours. Arnhemcr (talk) 06:18, 7 May 2023 (UTC)

Improved to Good Article status by Arnhemcr (talk). Nominated by Onegreatjoke (talk) at 21:48, 6 May 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Leeds 13; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.

New enough, long enough. No neutrality problems found, no maintenance templates found, no copyright problems found (Earwig gives one 31% reading, but it's a false positive). QPQ done. The first sentence in Exhibitions is unsourced, this needs to be fixed before I can approve it. I'm going to have another think about this tomorrow, but for now I propose something like ALT2: that the Leeds 13's attempt at staging a holiday was taken at face value by the British press outlets?--Laun chba ller 20:26, 21 June 2023 (UTC)
- ALT3: ...that the Leeds 13's attempt at staging a holiday at Leeds University Union's expense was taken literally by the British press?--Laun chba ller 08:14, 22 June 2023 (UTC)
A ping to Onegreatjoke. theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (she/her) 18:37, 3 July 2023 (UTC)

@Launchballer: Your proposed hooks are alright but the unsourced sentenced is a generalisation of sources cited in the section so i'm not sure if it has to be cited. Onegreatjoke (talk) 18:11, 5 July 2023 (UTC)

I think it would be better if it were moved into the lede, which I've done. Good to go.--Laun chba ller 14:58, 8 July 2023 (UTC)

Hi, thanks for the interest in Leeds 13 and apologies for being a DYK newbie. Launchballer Going Places was one work among many by various artists at those exhibitions. I've clarified this in the Exhibitions section and removed your mention of those exhibitions from the lede because, in my view, they were minor events better covered in the body. Leeds 13 summed themselves up with the quote in the final paragraph of the lede. They took the public's idea of "artist" as an individual making aesthetic objects possibly for sale and turned it on its head: working as a group and making their art from one-off events that couldn't be marketed. How about "... that the Leeds 13 student fine art collective's holiday as art was a first class hoax on the UK mass media." Arnhemcr (talk) 10:39, 11 July 2023 (UTC)