Template:Did you know nominations/Ri Jong-yol
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The result was: promoted by Schwede66 talk 00:25, 14 July 2024 (UTC)
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Ri Jong-yol
- ... that North Korean child prodigy Ri Jong-yol defected to South Korea after winning silver at the 2016 International Mathematical Olympiad in Hong Kong?
- Source: Caesar, Ed (19 April 2021). "The Incredible Rise of North Korea's Hacking Army". The New Yorker. Retrieved 9 July 2024.
After winning another silver medal, Ri took his chance. He walked out of the dorm where he was staying and hailed a cab to the airport, where—with the help of a friendly airline worker—he found the address of the South Korean consulate. He took another taxi there and told a South Korean diplomat that he wished to defect. He then spent seventy days in Hong Kong, waiting nervously while the South Korean delegation negotiated his safe passage to Seoul.
Yue🌙 03:57, 11 July 2024 (UTC).
Hi Yue, review follows: article created 10 July and exceeds minimum length; article is well written and cited inline throughout to what look to be reliable sources; I didn't pick up on any issues with overly close paraphrasing; hook fact is interesting, mentioned in the article and checks out to sources cited; a QPQ has been carried out. Good to go. I am not sure why this qualifies as an Olympic special occasion hook though? I couldn't see any obvious connection between the Maths Olympiad and the Olympic Games? Dumelow (talk) 11:20, 11 July 2024 (UTC)
- @Dumelow: The SOHA box was placed in good faith by Schwede66. I have removed it because I did not intend for this hook to be held for the Olympics as the International Mathematics Olympiad is not related to the Olympics, only similarly named. Yue🌙 20:43, 11 July 2024 (UTC)
- Yue, we are using a few hooks as a "warm-up" for the Olympics, and Olympiad is close enough for that to work. This isn't so much about "holding" the hook but more about speeding things up. I have this one scheduled for 24 July (or earlier, if I have to shuffle things around) and the lowest prep set available at the moment is to be published on 21 July. Therefore, chances are that this will see the hook published earlier than it otherwise would be. Is that ok with you? If it isn't, I'll simply remove it from the Olympic hooks table. Schwede66 00:44, 12 July 2024 (UTC)
- @Dumelow: The SOHA box was placed in good faith by Schwede66. I have removed it because I did not intend for this hook to be held for the Olympics as the International Mathematics Olympiad is not related to the Olympics, only similarly named. Yue🌙 20:43, 11 July 2024 (UTC)
