Template:Did you know nominations/The Boat Race 1993

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The result was: promoted by 97198 (talk) 13:17, 14 July 2014 (UTC)

The Boat Race 1993[edit]

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... that in the 1993 Boat Race, Cambridge used cleavers?

Improved to Good Article status by The Rambling Man (talk). Nominated by Matty.007 (talk) at 13:03, 12 July 2014 (UTC).

@Matty.007: New enough (to GA) long enough, meets core content policies (COPYVIO, RS, NPOV, etc.). I don't think that laypeople will understand the significance of the hook though. --Jakob (talk) 17:03, 13 July 2014 (UTC)

Aiming for misunderstanding with cleaver, a type of knife. Thanks, Mat ty.007 18:32, 13 July 2014 (UTC)

Right. Part of what makes a good hook is exactly that the reader will go what??? and click. EEng (talk) 23:14, 13 July 2014 (UTC)

GTG then. --Jakob (talk) 18:51, 13 July 2014 (UTC)