Template talk:Did you know/Nervous laughter

Nervous laughter

The following discussion is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as 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

... that nervous laughter can relieve stress?

5x expanded by Kristinafreund (talk). Self nom at 12:43, 27 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

After I removed two paragraphs of content that wasn't really relevant to the topic, the article no longer meets the fivefold expansion requirement. rʨanaɢ (talk) 13:01, 27 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

It feels unfair to the author/expander of this article that you as the reviewer made the article inelligible by your edits. Forgive me, but just saying :) I reverted; please give the author time to make changes necessary for a promotion. You have not made suggestions to this author, have you? Rcej (Robert) – talk 05:35, 29 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps Rjanag's economy of words made his review/edits seem unfair, however after looking at the revisions made to the article it looks justified (and makes for a 'better' article). The content removed was irrelevant and/or superfluous and should go. I believe that the expansion and DYK submission were both made in good faith by a new editor to wikipedia and advice and guidance are a great way to improve any future contributions. Even still the article as written (or sensibly revised by Rjanag) doesn't qualify for DYK. --MTHarden (talk) 17:19, 29 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, multiple issues including vintage (5x expansion happened July 15 but article not submitted until July 27), only 2 references cited with most of article cited to neither of them, and tag about citations missing has been there since 2008. I think if this had come to us sooner after its expansion there would have been time to fix it up enough to put it out there, but this is already too late to qualify as "newest content." Please try again, but just try sooner next time! Sharktopus ^talk 21:15, 30 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]