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The Blacklist has been listed as one of the Media and drama good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.
Review: February 18, 2023. (Reviewed version).

On 3 May 2022, it was proposed that this article be moved from The Blacklist (TV series) to The Blacklist. The result of the discussion was moved.

A fact from The Blacklist appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 9 March 2023 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that former CIA agent Bazzel Baz was hired to be a consultant for The Blacklist television series and instead became a cast member?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2023/March. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/The Blacklist.

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Nominating for DYK

@Figureskatingfan, hello and thanks once again for GA promotion. I'm thinking about nominating the article for Did You Know page, but I'm not that experienced in how it's done and, as I see, the time for doing that is limited. Since you've just finished assisting this one, I want to ask you to help me here. If you consider to help me in any sphere of this nomination, I would be more than thankful to you than ever. Eagowl | talk | 04:46, 18 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Eagowl, I think that's something that you should learn how to do, since you seem committed to improve the quality of articles. Plus, I'm not always going to be able to do it for you. Right now, I do, so I'll go ahead and do it for you. It's pretty easy, and there are lots of people who will help, like the folks who helped me through my most recent DYKs. You have seven days to submit it, so I'll make sure that it's done before the deadline if you decide you can't. Best, Christine (Figureskatingfan) (talk) 20:42, 18 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for so speedy reaction, I couldn't even reply to you! I actually thought that it would be tougher to do and will require more time that it actually took. Of course, I'll learn to do it myself, but I wanted not to fail this one, given the series' ending soon and the fact it's my first GA after all. Eagowl | talk | 01:04, 19 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, I'm so glad you went ahead and submitted the nom yourself! Wow, you even reviewed another DYK, which you don't have to do until your fifth nom. I'm also glad you found it easier than you thought; I find that if I don't submit DYK noms regularly, I make all kinds of errors, which kind folks came behind and help me fix. It looks like it's gonna go through, so congrats. Christine (Figureskatingfan) (talk) 18:16, 19 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

So, the hook has been reviewed, but what should be done next? I've tried to understand the process of approving it for the Main Page, but I found it a bit messy (approved hooks, then awaiting approval, then prep ares, queues…) while the time (7 days since promotion) is expiring. Could you please clarify how to go on with it? Eagowl | 11:38, 21 February 2023 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Eagowl (talk • contribs)

There's nothing further that you need to do. The reviewer added the green check mark, so it's done. The DYK admins will put it on the schedule and then a bot will inform you of the date it's gonna be up on the Main Page. Go here Template:Did you know/Queue if you want to check for when it shows up in the queue and the exact time it will be there. Christine (Figureskatingfan) (talk) 16:41, 21 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Did you know nomination

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 Cielquiparle (talk) 10:19, 26 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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... that former CIA agent Bazzel Baz was hired to be a consultant for The Blacklist television series and instead he became a cast member? Source: Bazzel Baz… a modern day action man, former Marine, a former CIA officer, actor and founder of the Association of the Recovery of Children. Baz discusses his deep Christian faith, addresses the gun issues affecting America, his time as part of Reddington’s elite security force on The Blacklist TV show and the work he does in rescuing children. and Baz is played by an ex-CIA agent named Bazzel Baz. He’s actually a consultant on “The Blacklist,” giving advice
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/SS Tembien

Improved to Good Article status by Eagowl (talk) and Figureskatingfan (talk). Nominated by Bruxton (talk) at 00:16, 19 February 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/The Blacklist; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall:

A good article, passes earwig and is adequately sourced. No close paraphrasing was found. The hook/fact is very interesting, cited inline, and verified. QPQ done. Minor suggestion/tweaking, "the television series The Blacklist ; "but instead he became...", otherwise nom good to go. Great work. Pseud 14 (talk) 16:22, 19 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

"CIA agent" reported as main page error

Copied here from the mainpage error report.

"former CIA agent Bazzel Baz was hired to be a consultant for The Blacklist" contains a possible error. "CIA agent" and "CIA officer" mean two different things as explained at Intelligence officer. Unfortunately, each of the two sources at The Blacklist use a different title for Mr. (?) Baz. His personal website claims SOG officer and case officer, so we should probably go with that per BLP policy. ☆ Bri (talk) 00:01, 10 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]