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The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Allen3 talk 16:10, 11 March 2015 (UTC)

Formula 1 (board game)

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  • ... that the cardboard speedometers used in the early 1960s Waddingtons' board game Formula 1 are branded SMITHS in that company's typeface of the era?

Created by Arb (talk). Self nominated at 17:27, 10 January 2015 (UTC).

  • Article is new enough, long enough, neutral, and free of close paraphrasing issues, copyright violations and plagiarism. However, most of the article is not cited by inline sources and the source for the hook is the editor's interpretation of a photograph. --Hirolovesswords (talk) 16:45, 12 January 2015 (UTC)
  • Fair points and good to get critical eyes on the article. Have added inline sources to the section on official play; the rest seems to be covered (one reference at the start of a list being sufficient, is it not). Can't do much about the original hook; it's self evident but nonetheless... Have added an additional reference for the original hook but still somewhat tenuous. How about:
ALT1:... that Formula 1 is a motor racing themed board game originally published by Waddingtons in 1962?
ALT2:... that the cardboard speedometers used in the early 1960s Waddingtons' board game Formula 1 are branded SMITHS in the company's typeface?
Article has survived an AfD nomination by User:Hirolovesswords. Needs another editor to complete this DYK review. -Arb. (talk) 22:08, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
  • :REVIEW COMPLETED - The following review was completed by Esemono
QPQ for Template:Did you know nominations/Alfred Welby
Article Article moved from User:Arb/Formula 1 on January 10, 2015 and has 2527 characters of readable prose
NPOV
ALT 1 Hook is interesting, Refs 1 boardgamegeek.com
Every paragraph sourced
Earwig @ Toolserver Copyvio Detector found no copyvio
GTG -- Esemono (talk) 05:25, 11 March 2015 (UTC)