Template:Did you know nominations/Milk's gotta lotta bottle
- 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: promoted by Z1720 (talk) 22:38, 1 August 2022 (UTC)
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Milk's gotta lotta bottle
- ... that milk's gotta lotta bottle? Source: " I wonder how au fait the Milk Marketing Board was with the idiosyncrasies of London dialect when it coined the slogan 'Milk's Gotta Lotta Bottle'" from: Braier, Rachel (22 February 2013). "Don't get your Alans in a twist". The Guardian. Retrieved 19 July 2022.
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/William Pinckney
- Comment: I can suggest alternatives but I quite like the short and basic statement
Created by Dumelow (talk). Self-nominated at 12:47, 20 July 2022 (UTC).
This was fun to review! New enough and long enough. QPQ present. Did a bit of copyediting. No textual issues. As a quirky (the hook fact is kind of the whole article, but I don't mind), this will get some good views. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 21:21, 20 July 2022 (UTC)
- @Dumelow and Sammi Brie: i know the hook is pretty catchy, but I'm not sure I'm comfortable having DYK repeat an advertising slogan uncritically... is there another way to make this quirky and fun? theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (she/they) 16:27, 29 July 2022 (UTC)
- @Theleekycauldron: One of the reasons I didn't object was because of the slogan being out of circulation since the mid-1980s. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 18:16, 29 July 2022 (UTC)
- That's true, and it's why I'm not firmly opposed, but we are also repeating the slogan uncritically – as if it were a verifiable fact like the other seven hooks. Quirkies should stem from verifiable truths, with the exception of April Fools' day. theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (she/they) 20:13, 29 July 2022 (UTC)
- I had considered it was long enough ago and not for a specific product (just milk in general) that it was sufficiently non-commercial. How about:
- That's true, and it's why I'm not firmly opposed, but we are also repeating the slogan uncritically – as if it were a verifiable fact like the other seven hooks. Quirkies should stem from verifiable truths, with the exception of April Fools' day. theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (she/they) 20:13, 29 July 2022 (UTC)
- ALT1: ... that in the 1980s, British people were told that "milk's gotta lotta bottle"?
- ALT2: ... that a series of advertisements for milk in 1980s Britain were described as "blatantly sexist"?
- @Theleekycauldron: One of the reasons I didn't object was because of the slogan being out of circulation since the mid-1980s. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 18:16, 29 July 2022 (UTC)
- @Dumelow and Sammi Brie: i know the hook is pretty catchy, but I'm not sure I'm comfortable having DYK repeat an advertising slogan uncritically... is there another way to make this quirky and fun? theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (she/they) 16:27, 29 July 2022 (UTC)
