Template:Did you know nominations/List of covers of Time magazine (2010s)

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The result was: rejected by — Crisco 1492 (talk) 16:22, 28 March 2013 (UTC).
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List of covers of Time magazine (2010s)

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... that between 2010 and and 2013, United States president Barack Obama (pictured) has been featured on the cover of Time the most times, nine, while in the same period, opposing presidential candidate Mitt Romney has been featured seven times?

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Sugath Chandrasiri Bandara
Comment: I realize that there is very little prose in this article, but there is a lot of writing in the table, which is only there for neatness and could be done in writing if anybody wants to do that. I ask for an exception to the usual rules when it comes to this, as it has been expanded more than fivefold.
Not too sure on the hook wording. Suggestions welcome.

Created/expanded by Rcsprinter123 (talk). Self nominated at 21:05, 18 March 2013 (UTC).

Rcsprinter123, I'm very sorry, but DYK rules are very definite about prose. Aside from the short paragraphs at the top, which are prose, the table really contains a series of captions, so I don't see how it would be considered prose even if removed from a table. According to DYKcheck, the article currently contains 630 prose characters, up from 421 prose characters prior to your expansion. It needs, by 5x rules, to reach 2105 prose characters to qualify for DYK. (Indeed, even if it was new, you'd need 2105 because those 421 are boilerplate that are used on preexisting Time list articles.) List articles need reasonably long introductions to be eligible for DYK—even new ones need to achieve the minimum of 1500 prose characters—and that's where the prose generally comes from in the many lists that are approved for DYK.

There are other severe issues with this submission that also prevent its approval:

The article has only a single reference that cites a single magazine cover.
The hook itself is unsourced, and none of the prose paragraphs have inline citations.
The hook is 241 characters, far over the absolute maximum of 200.

Given all this, it would require a large amount of work to be made compliant, not simply an additional 1475 prose characters. BlueMoonset (talk) 23:10, 21 March 2013 (UTC)