Template:Did you know nominations/Death of Nelson Mandela

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The result was: promoted by Allen3 ^talk 15:25, 10 January 2014 (UTC)

Death of Nelson Mandela

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... ~~that the death and state funeral of Nelson Mandela was announced by the President of South Africa?~~

Reviewed: No review required (not a self-nomination).

Created by Another Believer (talk). Nominated by Tentinator (talk) at 22:17, 8 December 2013 (UTC).

I don't think this is ready. It has two cleanup tags and is practically entirely quotes. Taylor Trescott - ^{my talk} + _{my edits} 22:40, 8 December 2013 (UTC)

Not to mention that the hook above is really boring, not catchy and uninteresting. —Bloom6132 (talk) 20:32, 9 December 2013 (UTC)

The cleanup tags have been removed.

ALT ... that the sign language interpreter for the state memorial service of Nelson Mandela made meaningless hand gestures that did not reflect established signs? Tentinator 08:05, 14 December 2013 (UTC)

I believe this article has already been ITN on December 10, which would make it ineligible for DYK — Maile (talk) 15:44, 26 December 2013 (UTC)

Death and state funeral of Nelson Mandela was never a featured ITN article. Wikipedia:Main Page history/2013 December 10 Tentinator 16:51, 26 December 2013 (UTC)

Date, length and hook all OK. I think the original is quite boring and the Alt is better so it's good to go for ALT. The C of E God Save the Queen! (talk) 22:16, 4 January 2014 (UTC)

This article has already been viewed more than 56k times. Let's give the exposure to another article. In the spirit of the ITN rule, I would decline promoting this nom to the prep area. Furthermore, the article was developed by many contributors. The {DYKmake} credit should be given to more than just one user. This needs to be sorted out beforehand if we are really bringing this article back to MainPage. --PFHLai (talk) 02:37, 5 January 2014 (UTC)