Template:Did you know nominations/Deaf History

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The result was: rejected by Crisco 1492 (talk) 02:48, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
Length and paraphrasing issues

Deaf history

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... that Juliette Low, the founder of the Girl Scouts, was deaf?

Created/expanded by Galatians (talk). Self nom at 23:54, 14 November 2011 (UTC)

Sorry - the article doesn't meet criteria of being increased five times in size in the 5 days before nomination (even extending that to 7 days only gives a four-fold increase from 1041 readable bytes to 3949 readable bytes). Furthermore, the hook was already on Wikipedia at Juliette Gordon Low. I haven't checked references given other issues. Wikiwayman (talk) 10:42, 29 November 2011 (UTC)

I checked for, and found, some additional issues. The "timeline" section of the article (an expansion that does not contribute to prose, and thus did not "count" for DYK) is remarkably similar to this web document. Additionally, writing quality is poor, beginning with the first sentence "The history of deaf people and its culture makes up a bunch of deaf history." The article is a good initiative, but it has too many problems at the present time. I recommend that it be "failed." --Orlady (talk) 20:27, 29 November 2011 (UTC)