Template:Did you know nominations/MGM-Pathé Communications
- 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 Cwmhiraeth (talk) 13:14, 20 July 2014 (UTC)
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MGM-Pathé Communications
[edit]- ... that the short-lived MGM-Pathé Communications was formed in 1990 when Giancarlo Parretti purchased MGM/UA Communications Inc. and merged it with his Pathé Communications Group?
- Reviewed: Grand Slam (PBA)
- Comment: Found a notable 315 characters (51 words) stub at AFD and gave it 10x expansion to create a 3296 characters (524 words) C class article.
5x expanded by MichaelQSchmidt (talk). Self nominated at 06:18, 15 July 2014 (UTC).
Confirmed that the 10x expansion occurred in the last seven days. There's a close paraphrasing issue; the second sentence of the history section (starting from ...repurchased) is an almost direct quote from Hollywood Story. The start of the third paragraph ("In July 1993...") is ungrammatical and partially unreferenced; I can find no reference to John Calley in A New Pot of Gold and it's unclear to me who he's replacing (or if he was in fact replaced). It would help verification if you used {{rp}} with book sources but that's a personal preference. There's another close paraphrasing issue with Kerkorian's 1996 repurchasing and with the boosting of the MGM film library. I couldn't verify that MGM/UA Home Video lasted until 2004, and it's not clear to me how that related to the rest of the narrative. The hook is verified and long enough; a hook focusing on Parretti's questionable background might be more eye-catching. Mackensen (talk) 22:31, 18 July 2014 (UTC)- Issues addressed. Additional references added. User:Mackensen notified. Thanks, Schmidt, Michael Q. 02:45, 19 July 2014 (UTC)
Looks good to go. Thanks! Mackensen (talk) 12:17, 19 July 2014 (UTC)
