Template:Did you know nominations/Henry Herx

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The result was: promoted by Rcsprinter (deliver) @ 15:33, 25 September 2012 (UTC)

Henry Herx

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... that Henry Herx, who reviewed films for Catholics, was upset that Siskel and Ebert walked out on a film, as "he felt his job was to sit there and watch it and give an honest review" no matter how bad?

Reviewed: Oskar Fischer

Created/expanded by Alansohn (talk). Self nom at 18:26, 4 September 2012 (UTC)

Looks good generally, but the hook length is so borderline I'd like to ask the nominator to condense it a little, if possible. Abyssal (talk) 14:33, 19 September 2012 (UTC)

200 is legal and therefore okay. Long hooks are useful and good to have sometimes. We need the occasional long hook to fill up space when most other approved and available hooks happen to be short. Otherwise, the left side on MainPage would be shorter than the right, and the layout would be wrecked. 200 is fine. Let is be. (It could be a problem if multiple hooks with 190+ characters are in the same set, but that's a different problem.)--PFHLai (talk) 13:30, 23 September 2012 (UTC)

200 is the maximum, but it is within the reviewer's purview to request a shorter hook and it has happened before. As it says in WP:DYK, "The hook itself should be concise: fewer than about 200 characters, including spaces. While 200 is an outside limit, hooks slightly under 200 characters may still be rejected at the discretion of the selecting reviewers and administrators." One possibility: deleting "he felt" from the hook, as it looks odd in this context. I'd also consider whether "his" should start the quote or the quote should start after that word. BlueMoonset (talk) 19:52, 23 September 2012 (UTC)

Don't get me wrong, I'm willing to pass this, but I think the nominator may be able to rephrase it slightly so that it's a few characters shorter, which would make it safer within the limits. Abyssal (talk) 14:39, 24 September 2012 (UTC)

Sorry for no replying sooner, but I'm now watching DYK as closely as I used to. How about a slightly shorter ALT1: ... that Henry Herx, a film critic for Catholics, was upset that Siskel and Ebert walked out on a film, as "his job was to sit there and watch it and give an honest review" no matter how bad? Alansohn (talk) 15:38, 24 September 2012 (UTC)
That works. Pass through Alt 1. Abyssal (talk) 15:19, 25 September 2012 (UTC)