Template:Did you know nominations/De Typhoon

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The result was: promoted by Crisco 1492 (talk) 02:07, 20 March 2012 (UTC)

De Typhoon, De Zaanlander

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... that De Typhoon, a Dutch paper founded during World War II by the Dutch resistance, merged in 1992 with a competing local paper that had collaborated with the Germans during the war?

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Created/expanded by Drmies (talk). Self nom at 19:25, 13 March 2012 (UTC)

Okay to go. Everything checks out, apart from one issue... there are 704 characters of text common to both articles. If you regard the common text as having been copied from De Zaanlander to De Typhoon then there is not a problem, since De Typhoon had 3145 characters to begin with. However, if you consider that the text was copied from De Typhoon to De Zaanlander then there is a problem, since De Zaanlander had only 1840 characters to begin with, and can not now be credited with 1500 characters. In fact, looking at the edit histories, the later was the case, which disqualifies De Zaanlander. However it strikes me as miserable nitpicking to fail the nomination just because the articles were written in a particular order. It could equally have gone the other way, so I've ticked the review. --Epipelagic (talk) 02:05, 14 March 2012 (UTC)

Thanks. I'm actually not entirely done with the Zaanlander and am hoping to add a bit more in the next few days. Drmies (talk) 02:50, 14 March 2012 (UTC)

Done yet? Shall we wait? --PFHLai (talk) 02:41, 17 March 2012 (UTC)