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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 Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 21:05, 17 May 2018 (UTC)

Jamil Smith (journalist)

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Smith in February 2018
Smith in February 2018

Created/expanded by Innisfree987 (talk) and 71.80.174.161 (talk). Nominated by Innisfree987 (talk) at 00:45, 19 March 2018 (UTC).

General: Article is new enough and long enough

Policy compliance:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
QPQ: Done.

Overall: Other than those little points, it looks pretty good. I'd prefer ALT1 over ALT0. Regards SoWhy 18:29, 18 April 2018 (UTC)

Hi SoWhy and BlueMoonset, apologies for thé delayed reply. The hook choice is fine with me and I made the edits to the lead as requested; however I got hung up on paraphrasing the quotes, finding my own paraphrases—to be quite honest—less accurate than the quotations (consequently I have reverted my own efforts). As the quoted text appears only sparingly and are not strictly speaking a policy violation, I’m wondering if we can just leave it be for now as a relatively minor imperfection; after all DYK is meant to highlight new(...ish) content rather necessarily GA or FA standard content.
Sorry again for the delay, had hoped I’d find some inspiration on a fix. Innisfree987 (talk) 05:32, 17 May 2018 (UTC)
@Innisfree987: You are of course right as to the nature of DYK and the standards, so I won't insist on it. I tried a partial paraphrase myself, see it you like it, feel free to revert if not. Good to go with ALT1. Regards SoWhy 07:45, 17 May 2018 (UTC)