Template:Did you know nominations/Mahmood Yakubu

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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 01:27, 30 October 2015 (UTC)

Mahmood Yakubu

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... that Mahmood Yakubu is the first and only Northern Nigerian with a first-class degree in history?

Created by OluwaCurtis (talk). Self-nominated at 09:25, 22 October 2015 (UTC).

Article is long enough and new enough. before reviewing it further, I want to mention that 97.7% chance of copyright violation. It seems that most of the things are copied from this website. I will suggest nominator to work on this issue, instead of copying from other website he/she should write it in own words. --Human3015^TALK 10:22, 27 October 2015 (UTC)

Human3015, I am surprised there is a copyvio issue with the article. The article was created on 22 October while the one on the website was posted on 24 October. Obviously it was copied from the article, not the other way. Regards! OluwaCurtis »» (talk to me) 11:27, 27 October 2015 (UTC)

It seems that website copied their content from this article. Hook is referenced so I think it is good to go. I will suggest just one improvement in hook to avoid confusion, instead of mentioning History we can write 'History subject'. I will suggest alternative hook as per sources

ALT1: ~~... that Mahmood Yakubu is the first and only first class graduate of history from Northern Nigeria?~~

ALT2: ~~... that Mahmood Yakubu is the first and only first class graduate of history subject from Northern Nigeria?~~

--Human3015^TALK 11:57, 27 October 2015 (UTC)

ALT1 looks good. Thank you! —OluwaCurtis »» (talk to me) 12:25, 27 October 2015 (UTC)

Sorry, but the ALTs are not grammatically correct. One "graduates with a degree in history"; he is not "a graduate of history". "Graduate of history subject" is also not grammatical. Your original hook looks fine to me, @OluwaCurtis:. You could take out the word "certificate", that's all. I lowercased "history" in all the hooks. Yoninah (talk) 23:11, 27 October 2015 (UTC)

I just took a look at the article and did a copyedit for English grammar. Please note the "where?" tag in the first paragraph under "Career". Yoninah (talk) 23:23, 27 October 2015 (UTC)

@Yoninah:Clarification added. Thank you. —OluwaCurtis »» (talk to me) 23:33, 27 October 2015 (UTC)

Thank you for the clarification. It doesn't appear in the source, though, so I put it after the ref. I added a link to first-class degree in the original hook and removed the word "certificate". The hook ref is verified and cited inline. Good to go. Yoninah (talk) 23:41, 27 October 2015 (UTC)

Inline citation has been added to the claim. —OluwaCurtis »» (talk to me) 23:52, 27 October 2015 (UTC)

(edit conflict)*ok, I added "graduate of history" mainly because source says same, but it is ok with "degree in history" too. But "in history" gives perception that Yakub is the only first class graduate in entire history of Northern Nigeria. "Graduate of History" may not be grammatically wrong. For example BA means Bachelor of Arts, not Bachelor in Arts. But current approved hook is also nice, I have no problem. Good to go. --Human3015^TALK 00:05, 28 October 2015 (UTC)