Template:Did you know nominations/Stephen Chow (bishop)
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The result was: promoted by Vaticidalprophet (talk) 13:05, 23 May 2021 (UTC)
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Stephen Chow (bishop)
- ... that Stephen Chow initially declined to be bishop of Hong Kong, but relented after receiving a handwritten letter from Pope Francis? Source: South China Morning Post; Sunday Examiner
- ALT1:... that the appointment of Stephen Chow as bishop of Hong Kong was described as a surprise in America? Source: America magazine
- Reviewed: Leonard Neale
- Comment: Open to having either hook run on April Fools' Day 2022 if it is deemed sufficiently quirky (depends on how well known the actor by the same name is outside of Hong Kong).
Created by Bloom6132 (talk). Self-nominated at 23:53, 17 May 2021 (UTC).
- New enough, long enough, well sourced, no visible policy violations. QPQ done. Hook facts cited inline. For April's Fools, perhaps it should be made quirkier? "... that the appointment of Stephen Chow as bishop of HK was considered a surprise in America?" (When I read Stephen Chow, I think Shaolin Soccer). Happy to approve your nom, but I have no experience with WP:DYKAPRIL. Do you really want to wait that long? —Kusma (t·c) 14:10, 19 May 2021 (UTC)
- @Kusma: thanks for the better wording! Yes, I'm fine with waiting until April next year. —Bloom6132 (talk) 15:15, 19 May 2021 (UTC)
- OK, here's your tick:
I prefer ALT1 especially for 1 April, but ALT0 is ok. I don't know how the WP:DYKAPRIL paperwork is usually done, though, so I'll leave that for someone else. —Kusma (t·c) 15:26, 19 May 2021 (UTC)
- OK, here's your tick:
- I cannot for the life of me see how this is April 1 material. April 1 seems to have completely lost its moorings. But then of course we've been talking about that for years. EEng 21:21, 19 May 2021 (UTC)
- I'm not seeing it either. I agree with @EEng:. The C of E God Save the Queen! (talk) 21:40, 19 May 2021 (UTC)
@The C of E: How predictable – was expecting you to go tit-for-tat after I rejected your inappropriate Watermelon song nom yesterday.—Bloom6132 (talk) 22:01, 19 May 2021 (UTC)
- This isn't an appropriate April Fools' Day hook—it's doesn't do much to fool people, and Stephen Chow isn't well known. I think the original hook would fly as a regular DYK hook. BlueMoonset (talk) 00:23, 20 May 2021 (UTC)
- OK, so to summarise: people don't watch enough Hong Kong cinema, April 1 DYKs aren't a particularly fun area to work in, and running either of the current hooks now instead of next year has the advantage of being closer to the news of the bishop's appointment, so this should just run normally. —Kusma (t·c) 06:36, 20 May 2021 (UTC)