Template:Did you know nominations/Richard Sharp (BBC chairman)

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The result was: promoted by SL93 (talk) 01:01, 5 February 2021 (UTC)

Richard Sharp (BBC chairman)

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... that the new Chairman of the BBC has a twin sister who is a leading judge? Source: "He has a twin sister, Victoria, who is a senior judge. " ([1])

Reviewed: Richard Platt (brewer)

Created by Edwardx (talk). Self-nominated at 23:50, 13 January 2021 (UTC).

Hi Edwardx, review follows: article created 6 January and exceeds minimum length; sourcing is generally good but there is one citation needed and a bare URL to sort out; the lead will need to be expanded to resolve the orange tag; Earwig shows some similarity in wording from the sources that you may want to review but I think this is acceptable as it is mostly limited to names of institutions and so forth; a QPQ is needed. The fact that Victoria is his twin is not in the source used to support the sentence in the article (only states that they are siblings). The hook currently focuses on his sister, I think it would be good to provide one or two alternatives that are focussed on Richard - Dumelow (talk) 08:54, 17 January 2021 (UTC)

@Edwardx: The article also has a citation needed tag that needs to be resolved before this can be promoted. @Dumelow: As for an alternative hook, how about:

ALT1 ... that Richard Sharp, the next Chairman of the BBC, has stated that he plans to donate his £160,000 salary to charity?

ALT1 is dependent on the hook having an inline citation , which it currently does not have. The only other possible hook fact I could see (about the controversy surrounding his appointment) is an obvious BLP violation so that's probably not a good idea. I'm rather ambivalent on whether or not we should link to BBC; on one hand, the BBC is one of the world's most famous broadcasting organizations and presumably many people have at least heard of it, on the other hand we are writing for a global audience and making assumptions about which abbreviations are well-known or not can be tricky. As for the original hook, is there a particular reason why Sharp isn't mentioned by name? Narutolovehinata5 ^tccsdnew 11:21, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

Hi Narutolovehinata5, ALT1 is fine for me. Edwardx, still a couple of things outstanding on this one per comments above - Dumelow (talk) 07:39, 4 February 2021 (UTC)

QPQ now done. The bare URL has gone. N citation could be found for the citation needed sentence, so this sentence has been removed. The BBC article mentions them being twins, so I have re-used that cite. I have aded a cite for him planning to give his salary to charity. I don't think we need to link the BBC - like many acronyms (eg NATO, CIA, FBI, MI5) it is better known by its initials than its full name, and it is well-known worldwide. As always, readers can always use the search box. As for not naming him, the job and organistion are more noatble than he is - after all, before the appointment we did not have a page for him. As for ALT1, it is a bit humdrum, and it appears that he can well afford to do the job unpaid. Alas the more interesting facts might well fall foul of the "focus unduly on negative aspects of living people" stipulation. Edwardx (talk) 13:35, 4 February 2021 (UTC)

I'll give it a tick. Citation added, hooks check out, QPQ added. I'll leave hook selection up to the promoter - Dumelow (talk) 13:45, 4 February 2021 (UTC)