Template:Did you know nominations/Andreas Panayiotou (businessman)

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The result was: promoted by PFHLai (talk) 17:25, 7 November 2015 (UTC)

Andreas Panayiotou (businessman)

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... that Andreas Panayiotou was once the UK's largest private landlord, until he sold up in 2006–07 and moved into hotels?

ALT1:... that Andreas Panayiotou was kicked out of school, aged 14, for punching his teacher, and became an amateur boxing champion and the UK's largest private landlord?
Reviewed: David Wecht
Comment: Other hooks welcome

Created by Edwardx (talk). Self-nominated at 22:20, 12 October 2015 (UTC).

age and size ok, written neutrally, hook sourced and faithful to source material. Earwig's copyvio negative. Just missing QPQ. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 12:36, 4 November 2015 (UTC)

I'd like to suggest a slight wording change to ALT1:

ALT1a: ... that Andreas Panayiotou was kicked out of school at the age of 14 for punching his teacher, and became an amateur boxing champion and the UK's largest private landlord?

It has a few more characters, but I think it's actually "punchier" because the extra commas aren't there forcing pauses.

Also, I'm presuming that "sold up" is a UK colloquialism I'm not familiar with, but it looks odd to me. —GrammarFascist _contribs ^talk 14:36, 5 November 2015 (UTC)

Thank you Cas Liber and GrammarFascist. I've just done a QPQ review. Yes, "sold up" is a common enough expression here, meaning sold everything. Perhaps we could use "sold everything" instead, even if unlikely to be literally true. Edwardx (talk) 15:14, 5 November 2015 (UTC)

You're welcome, Edwardx. I think it's clear enough from context what "sold up" means here that it doesn't necessarily have to be changed, though "sold everything" is a good alternative that would be clearer to more readers. Strictly speaking that's not a grammar issue, but a style one, so I'll leave it to you to decide which you prefer. —GrammarFascist _contribs ^talk 15:27, 5 November 2015 (UTC)

I have no preference GrammarFascist, so why don't we leave it to our experienced reviewer, Casliber, to choose. Edwardx (talk) 15:47, 5 November 2015 (UTC)

Good observation - to me "sold up" is sufficiently formal enough to be used....and is shorter. So let's leave that one. Good to go. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 19:23, 5 November 2015 (UTC)