Template:Did you know nominations/User revolt
- 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: rejected by —♦♦ AMBER(ЯʘCK) 22:40, 25 February 2016 (UTC)
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USer revolt
[edit]- ... that users of a website sometimes organize a user revolt to protest it?
- ALT1:... that in a user revolt website users may use a website to protest its owners?
- reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/George Alexander Gibson
- comment: I am having doubts about this. 70%+ of the content here is copied from other Wikipedia articles. What I wrote myself only sometimes has citations, and none of it flows so well. The concept is at the edge of my ambition to try to tame. Can I get a reviewer's opinion? I think I have 1500 new characters of content but a lot of this is not neat. Blue Rasberry (talk) 03:01, 27 January 2016 (UTC)
Created/expanded by Bluerasberry (talk). Self-nominated at 02:17, 27 January 2016 (UTC).
Bluerasberry, if, as you say, 70% or more of the content is copied from other Wikipedia articles, then the article will not meet DYK requirements per WP:DYKSG#A5: If some of the text in a nominated article was copied from another Wikipedia article, and the copied text is more than seven days old, then the copied text must be expanded fivefold as if the copied text had been a separate article.
So the most you can copy from pre-existing material and still be eligible for DYK would be 20%. Sorry to be the bearer of bad tidings; I haven't used the "X" icon because I wanted to be sure I hadn't misunderstood you. Note that the article would be eligible for DYK if it became a Good Article, so there is still a chance for it to be featured eventually, just not until then. BlueMoonset (talk) 02:59, 15 February 2016 (UTC)
An article that has been copied 70% or more from other Wikipedia articles does not meet DYK requirements. Since Bluerasberry has not said otherwise in the past ten days, this nomination is being marked for closure. BlueMoonset (talk) 07:39, 25 February 2016 (UTC)
- BlueMoonset Acknowledged - thanks for teaching me the relevant rule, thanks for the review, and please close. Blue Rasberry (talk) 14:29, 25 February 2016 (UTC)
