Template:Did you know nominations/Choose Your Battles

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The result was: promoted by Allen3 ^talk 15:02, 30 January 2014 (UTC)

Choose Your Battles

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... that American folk rock singer-songwriter Jonatha Brooke (pictured) co-wrote "Choose Your Battles", a song by recording artist Katy Perry?

Created by Prism (talk). Self nominated at 00:18, 24 December 2013 (UTC).

New. Length and sourcing OK. AGF on source for hook, but it should say "co-wrote", not "wrote". [New reviewer; second opinions welcome] Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:15, 1 January 2014 (UTC)

Second opinion: Looks like the article creator fixed the hook. Prism, best to say something to let us know you did that... If the reviewing editor can now review for close paraphrasing issues (I have not), the rest appears to be OK. Montanabw^(talk) 05:21, 2 January 2014 (UTC)

On hold: nominated for AfD due to notability issues. BlueMoonset (talk) 23:44, 13 January 2014 (UTC)
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Choose Your Battles still on. --PFHLai (talk) 03:28, 18 January 2014 (UTC)
  - The AfD result was 'keep. --PFHLai (talk) 05:10, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

Well, now that someone did choose their battle, but lost, the DYK can be approved, and so let's get 'er done! Montanabw^(talk) 00:37, 24 January 2014 (UTC)

Montanabw, did you do the close paraphrasing check? If it was needed before, it's still needed prior to a final approval now. Easy enough to call for a reviewer to do just that, if you don't plan on doing it yourself. (As Andy doesn't mention doing the check, it likely hasn't been done.) BlueMoonset (talk) 01:05, 24 January 2014 (UTC)

Is there anything faster or better than the dup detector? That is so clunky, needing to run every source separately... :-P Montanabw^(talk) 04:33, 24 January 2014 (UTC)

It's usually enough to spot-check a handful of sources; I pick the ones that cover the most material or are used the most number of times. You can use duplicate detector, or you can just read through them directly if they're short enough. (There is no shortcut.) It also makes sense to check at least one source that's the basis of quotes, so you can confirm they've been rendered correctly, but it's non-quoted material that will cause close paraphrasing issues. BlueMoonset (talk) 03:26, 26 January 2014 (UTC)

OK, curious, though, what you think of User:MadmanBot/manual? I kind of like it...? Montanabw^(talk) 20:55, 28 January 2014 (UTC)

Spotchecks complete, any close paraphrasing is cited as a direct quotation from the source, properly attributed. Good to go. (again) Montanabw^(talk) 21:02, 28 January 2014 (UTC)