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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 97198 (talk) 10:54, 19 July 2014 (UTC)

The Boat Race 2013

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  • ALT1:... that the 2013 Boat Race featured the event's first Czech rower?
  • ALT2:... that the 2013 Boat Race was notorious for the Oxford cox's repeated swearing?
  • Comment: Can I say notourious in Alt 2? It was over here in the UK

Improved to Good Article status by The Rambling Man (talk). Nominated by Matty.007 (talk) at 14:15, 17 July 2014 (UTC).

  • You can't say "notourious" as that isn't a word (really? like I've never made a typo). Belle (talk) 11:31, 18 July 2014 (UTC)
  • Well it may intrigue the reders readers... Thanks, Matty.007 11:34, 18 July 2014 (UTC)

GA'ed within the time constraints. Neutral. QPQ done (but incomplete, so complete it or I'll bash you with a stick). QPQ not required. No copyvio, plagiarism or close-paraphrasing detected. Original hook and ALT1 check out. ALT2 is true but not cited, so I'll have to say no to that one. Passed and providing an expansion on the original hook which I think makes it more interesting:

ALT3 ... that at the 2013 Boat Race, Cambridge only had one British rower in their crew for the second consecutive year? (it should really say "second year in a row" for maximum punnage) Belle (talk) 11:53, 18 July 2014 (UTC)