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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  MPJ-DK  02:14, 8 September 2016 (UTC)

Jon Snow (character)

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Improved to Good Article status by TAnthony (talk). Self-nominated at 00:09, 29 August 2016 (UTC).

 • Some issues found.

    • This article was Listed as a Good Article on 08:32, 24 August 2016
    • This article meets the DYK criteria at 27544 characters
    • Paragraphs [9] (As ... stricken.),[21] (Following ... stay.),[22] (In ... Wall.),[23] (In ... Black.),[24] (In ... Children".),[25] (In ... mutineers.),[26] (In ... North.) in this article lack a citation.
    • This article has no outstanding maintenance tags
    • ? A copyright violation is suspected by an automated tool, with 66.7% confidence. (confirm)
      • Note to reviewers: There is low confidence in this automated metric, please manually verify that there is no copyright infringement or close paraphrasing. Note that this number may be inflated due to cited quotes and titles which do not constitute a copyright violation.

 • No overall issues detected

Automatically reviewed by DYKReviewBot. This is not a substitute for a human review. Please report any issues with the bot. --DYKReviewBot (report bugs) 01:00, 29 August 2016 (UTC)

  • Nominator's comment: Potential copyvio flagged by bot is a cited quote. The uncited paragraphs are plot summary, one short paragraph per season. Thanks.— TAnthonyTalk 14:46, 29 August 2016 (UTC)
  • I believe the 3b rule can be waived because it would make little sense to have a citation in the middle of a quote box, but can you really not find sources for the plot summary? There are six of these paragraphs and season 6 plot summary is anything but short. Everything else seems fine, as confirmed by the bot and GA reviewer. Surtsicna (talk) 00:01, 2 September 2016 (UTC)
Yes, in this case I think the entire quote, even though it is more than one sentence, should be considered a "sentence" for the sake of the citation, since the quote is separated from other pghs and the citation clearly applies to the entire thing.
Straightforward, uncontroversial plot summaries are not usually cited in book, film, and television articles, and the article just got promoted to Good status without them in this section. Hotel Chevalier (film) is the FA for 9/2, "The Man Trap" (TV episode) is the FA for 9/8, and Diamonds Are Forever (novel) was promoted to FA in September 2015 (couldn't find a really recent book FA), none of these have citations in the plot section. I personally might cite them if I ever try to get this article to FA, but I think it's fine for a DYK. I'm not aware of a rule that every pgh has to be cited no matter what, even though the new bot checks for it.— TAnthonyTalk 16:27, 2 September 2016 (UTC)
You are correct. Sorry for misreading the rules. The article is good to go (and has been since nomination). Surtsicna (talk) 11:29, 4 September 2016 (UTC)