Template:Did you know nominations/Schyulkill Navy
- 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 — Crisco 1492 (talk) 11:07, 24 November 2013 (UTC)
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Schuylkill Navy
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- ... that many Olympic and World class competitive rowers started out in the Schuylkill Navy (flags pictured)?
Created/expanded by Jyp25 (talk). Self nominated at 19:01, 9 October 2013 (UTC).
- I've fixed the spelling in the link to the article, but don't know how to fix the spelling in the template title (the article title is spelled 'Schuylkill Navy'). NinaGreen (talk) 22:17, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
- I've adjusted the section heading, {{DYK nompage links}}, and {{DYKmake}} (including addition of subpage parameter). The name of the nomination page doesn't matter. MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 22:51, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
There are some copyright violation problems involving close paraphrasing and verbatim copy/pasting in the article's lead. For example, in the lead it is stated, "At its founding there were nine clubs with approximately 300 members" and "At least 23 other clubs have belonged to the Navy at various times." Compare this to text located at Schuylkill Navy records, where the following sentences exist: "At its founding there were nine clubs and approximately 300 members." and "At least 23 other clubs have belonged to the Navy at various times." This second sentence from the PACSCL source is verbatim to that in the article. I've added a tag regarding this matter atop the article and posted a comment about this on the article's talk page. Northamerica1000(talk) 02:44, 9 November 2013 (UTC)
- I've just pinged the nominator's talk page—it hadn't been done before, and this is a fairly new Wikipedian—though I'm not sure how much good that will do, since Jyp25 hasn't edited since October 10. It's important to note that this was not a 5x expansion: the article started with 4225 prose characters and ended with 18828, a bit over a 4x expansion. The article needs to reach 21125 prose characters, so another 2297 are needed. I've also added DYKmakes for several other people. Also, since expansion started on October 3, this was actually nominated a day late on October 9, though if everything else can be fixed, I think we can let that slide. However, unless someone else steps up over the weekend to start dealing with the serious copy/paste issues above and also further expansion of the article. BlueMoonset (talk) 02:17, 16 November 2013 (UTC)
It's been a week. Someone new has edited the article, but this was a copyedit that actually reduced the character count. Under the circumstances, it's time to close the nomination as unsuccessful. BlueMoonset (talk) 00:55, 24 November 2013 (UTC)
