Template:Did you know nominations/Leon Festinger
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The result was: rejected by Allen3 talk 12:24, 9 December 2012 (UTC)
Insufficient recent expansion
Leon Festinger
[edit]- ... that Leon Festinger, an American social psychologist, joined an apocalyptic cult for research purposes?
Created/expanded by Ckhchu (talk). Self nom at 21:32, 23 November 2012 (UTC)
DYK hooks should be punchy and no longer than 200 characters. We need something more like "... that Leon Festinger was one of those for whom doomsday failed to materialize?" Moonraker (talk) 08:00, 24 November 2012 (UTC)
- Thanks for your comments! I misread the requirements as 200 words instead of characters. The hook has been revised. I really like your suggestion, but revised it to avoid the impression that he actually believed in doomsday.
We also require a 5x expansion to the prose in the case of old articles (like this one). The article was at 6230 characters before you started your expansion. Now it is at 19536 characters, which counts as a 3x expansion. To reach 5x you need around 31,150 characters (an extra 11,614). Yazan (talk) 15:59, 24 November 2012 (UTC)
- Thanks for your comments! If you compare the version posted on November 19 with the previous version, the original prose was actually completely re-written. Does the 5x expansion requirement still apply in this case? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ckhchu (talk • contribs) 08:50, November 27, 2012 (UTC)
- As per Wikipedia:Did you know/Supplementary guidelines#A4, "Fivefold expansion is calculated from the previously existing article, no matter how bad it was (copyvios are an exception), no matter whether you kept any of it and no matter if it was up for deletion." --Allen3 talk 13:04, 7 December 2012 (UTC)