Template:Did you know nominations/World Naked Gardening Day

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The result was: promoted by Rcsprinter (state) 15:15, 4 April 2012 (UTC)

World Naked Gardening Day

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~~... that World Naked Gardening Day is celebrated on May 14 to promote nude gardening?~~

Created/expanded by SupernovaExplosion (talk). Self nom at 02:18, 20 March 2012 (UTC)

I reviewed Template:Did you know nominations/Hector the Tax Collector. --SupernovaExplosion ^Talk 02:23, 20 March 2012 (UTC)

The article is long enough, and contains plenty of references. It's a bit on the skinny side, and yet it seems that some stretching took place to get to 1,500 characters--I'd even favor scrapping the last two paragraphs, which don't say anything about the event itself. Also, I'd like for the references to be cleaner--that is, templated. Front-page articles need to look good. Ha, can we get a picture? Now, I've been looking at Google News, and I think there's probably material there to expand the historical coverage a bit, and Google Books shows a hit from 2008 that says it was held on 3 May. So, perhaps this needs a bit more work, more material, more sources. Drmies (talk) 03:30, 21 March 2012 (UTC)

I have addressed all these points. Clarified the different dates, added reference names, divided the article into four paras - first introduction, second - purpose according to organizers, third - activities during the event, fourth - a significant example event. --SupernovaExplosion ^Talk 06:10, 21 March 2012 (UTC)

Can you fix the inconsistencies in the references? Only one of them is templated and thus looks very different in the list of references. Drmies (talk) 17:08, 21 March 2012 (UTC)

Done. --SupernovaExplosion ^Talk 08:40, 22 March 2012 (UTC)

ALT1 hook
... that World Naked Gardening Day, celebrated in May to promote nude gardening, was first observed in 2005? --SupernovaExplosion ^Talk 10:02, 22 March 2012 (UTC)

ALT1 is good to go. The item has a picture now. It's not a high quality article and I'm always of the opinion that lead hooks should be substantial articles. That said, as a lead hook, it would no doubt get a huge number of views. Schwede 66 06:19, 3 April 2012 (UTC)