Template:Did you know nominations/Shoot 'Em Up (film)

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The result was: rejected by Yoninah (talk) 14:59, 2 April 2017 (UTC)
Not a 5x expansion

Shoot 'Em Up (film)

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Clive Owen at the 2009 Berlin Film Festival

... that the lead protagonist of the film Shoot 'Em Up played by Clive Owen (pictured) was modeled in contrast to James Bond?
- ALT1:... that Clive Owen (pictured) performed his own stunts in the film Shoot 'Em Up?
- ALT2:... that Monica Belluci dubbed her own voice for the French and Italian releases of the film Shoot 'Em Up?
- ALT3:... that the idea for Shoot 'Em Up began as a homage to the climactic scene from Hard Boiled wherein Chow Yun-fat rescues newborn babies from gangsters?

Expanded 5x by Bluesphere (talk). Self-nominated at 06:33, 22 March 2017 (UTC).

By my reckoning and according to DYK Check tool, this was expanded less than 5x, from 8,607 characters "readable prose size"to 11,226 characters. - Bri (talk) 02:43, 24 March 2017 (UTC)

@Bri: Hi, thanks for your time reviewing this DYK. This is my first nomination and I'm quite confused about the 5x expansion thing. Is there a chance that this DYK could still materialize? Blue sphere 02:49, 24 March 2017 (UTC)

Since it is not a new article, it will need to be expanded fivefold in the seven days prior to nomination. Or pass the good article review process. - Bri (talk) 04:02, 24 March 2017 (UTC)

Article nominated within date range. Within policy. Hook cited (footnotes 6,7) and ALT1 through 3 cited (6, 9, 6). All interesting (though I would have led off with death by carrot). Hook 3 is under the limit at 149 ch but could be trimmed maybe. QPQ exempt, this is nominator's first dyk. However, article was preexisting and has not yet been expanded 5x so I can't pass DYK. Bri (talk) 04:21, 24 March 2017 (UTC)

As has been noted, the article was not expanded to five times its original size, but to 1.3x its original size, and this is far from the DYK requirement. As it doesn't seem reasonable that the article could be expanded another four times to 43,035 prose characters, I'm marking this for closure. As Bri notes above, another option is to improve the article to the point that it can pass a GA nomination, but that also will take quite a bit of work to meet the GA criteria, and then time to be reviewed. Best of luck going forward. BlueMoonset (talk) 02:00, 2 April 2017 (UTC)