Template:Did you know nominations/Chris McKay

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 Victuallers (talk) 12:11, 12 August 2015 (UTC)

Chris McKay

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Chris McKay

• ... that Chris McKay (pictured), animation co-director of The Lego Movie, shot his early film/videos on his parents' Super 8 camera, which couldn't even zoom?

• ALT1: ... that Chris McKay (pictured) was sent to Australia by The Lego Movie's directors as an animation co-director of the film while they were working on 22 Jump Street?
• Reviewed: Lake Neepaulin

Created by Captain Assassin! (talk). Self-nominated at 12:30, 23 July 2015 (UTC).

• Article is new and sufficiently large. I've got problems with the first hook (more on that in a minute), but the ALT1 hook is OK provided the ungrammatical "the" before "22 Jump Street" is taken out.

The "even" in the first hook's "couldn't even zoom" is editorializing not supported by the cited source, and the fact that a Super-8 camera can't zoom isn't noteworthy. I changed this part of the article itself, BTW, to more accurately reflect what the cited source actually said.

The article does cite sources; I wish there were more sources, and that the first source (an interview) weren't being used quite so heavily, but it seems OK to me.

The image is from Commons, and it looks OK in a small size.

Captain Assassin! has done enough DYK submissions in the past that he needs to offer a QPQ in order for this nomination to be approved. At this point, I'm putting this nomination on hold pending a satisfactory QPQ, but after that I'm inclined to approve it. — Richwales (no relation to Jimbo) 03:10, 24 July 2015 (UTC)

@Richwales: QPQ is done now. --Captain Assassin! ^{«T ♦ C ♦ G»} 05:37, 24 July 2015 (UTC)

OK, thanks. Good to Go now. — Richwales (no relation to Jimbo) 05:56, 24 July 2015 (UTC)