Talk:The Twelve Days of Christmas (Correspondence)

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A fact from The Twelve Days of Christmas (Correspondence) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 25 December 2020 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that sending the real animals and personnel in The Twelve Days of Christmas resulted in a letter from G. Creep, solicitor?

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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 00:34, 18 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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... that sending the real animals in The Twelve Days of Christmas resulted in a letter from G. Creep, solicitor? Source [1]
- ALT1:... that The Twelve Days of Christmas (Correspondence) involves letters between lovers where each gift in the carol of the same name is sent? Source: [2]

Reviewed: William Brooks Close (colonist)
Comment: In response to Christmas SOS. 1st is meant to be a little humourous but I'll come up with more tomorrow if needed

Created by The C of E (talk). Self-nominated at 23:04, 16 December 2020 (UTC).[reply]

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Provided, and not used on any other nomination

Eligibility

Created December 16, 2020
1602 characters (265 words) "readable prose size"

Sourcing

Every paragraph sourced

Hook

Hook is 107 characters, stated in the article, and sourced
ALT! hook is 136 characters, stated in the article, and sourced

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No images involved

Copyvio check

Earwig's tool has flagged only "Twelve Days of Christmas" as repeated wording from source to article

This easily passes. I think I prefer the original hook, both for the name G. Creep, and because it's easier for the random reader to grasp without reading the article. — Maile (talk) 00:06, 18 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]