Template:Did you know nominations/December 2016 Polish protests

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: rejected by BlueMoonset (talk) 00:55, 30 January 2017 (UTC)
Although leeway was offered, this has been sitting for over three weeks without a reply from the nominator or action on a new, supported hook.

December 2016 Polish protests

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Protesting MPs of the opposition

• ... that in Poland there are ongoing protests against a law limiting freedom of the press in Sejm buildings? Source

Created by Orbwiki107 (talk). Self-nominated at 09:10, 28 December 2016 (UTC).

• The article is not new enough. It had to be nominated not later than 24 December 2017. --Mhhossein ^talk 17:32, 7 January 2017 (UTC)

• Ping User:BlueMoonset - considering this is likely the nominator's first DYK, I think we can relax the date criteria by a few days, as we often do in the case of new nominations? --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 12:17, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

• I would be inclined to allow some leeway, especially for a first DYK nomination (which this is), and four days is just within that period. However, the article is not long enough (DYKcheck finds 1417 prose characters, below the absolute minimum of 1500), and it definitely needs a copyedit to improve the English prose. If the article cannot be expanded, there's not much point in proceeding. As far as the copyedit goes, Piotrus, is this something you'd be willing to help with? If not, once the article has been expanded, a request can be made at the Guild of Copy Editors. (I would, however, expand beyond 1500 characters, because articles frequently end up shorter after a good copyedit.) BlueMoonset (talk) 16:55, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

• @BlueMoonset: I've expanded and c/e the article. I will note, however, that the hook needs change: no sources support the claim that the protests are still ongoing. Would changing the tense to past require an alt and its reapproval? Also ping User:Mhhossein, User:Orbwiki107. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 17:59, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

• Now, I'm in favor of extending the time criteria. However, the hook needs to be changed as Piotrus said. Mhhossein ^talk 08:00, 10 January 2017 (UTC)