Talk:2023 South Ethiopia Region referendum

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The result was: promoted by BorgQueen (talk) 07:38, 14 April 2023 (UTC)

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• ... that the government of Ethiopia's SNNP region supported local governments calling for a referendum to secede from the region? Source: [1][2]
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/First Republic of Armenia

Created by Chipmunkdavis (talk). Self-nominated at 07:55, 8 February 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/2023 South Ethiopia Region referendum; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

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• Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:
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Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Is it really a good idea to run a hook for this article before we have the election results, especially as it will likely be running a few days after we get the results (and therefore rather significantly changed from the nominated version)? Not totally opposed to this; I don't think it is explicitly banned to do something like this, but I'm not sure it's really a good idea either. There aren't any other problems here, though. Elli (talk | contribs) 03:15, 11 February 2023 (UTC)

An interesting question. We don't run political hooks before elections or similar, but the actual voting has passed. (Another issue perhaps is that if I had waited for the results it would be past the seven day mark, but that's DYK so here we are.) Hopefully timely results emerge on the predicted date and the article will be updated then. CMD (talk) 06:00, 11 February 2023 (UTC)

I think the point that Elli raises – and I must say, I agree – is not one about promotionality, it's one about article integrity. Once the results are released and analyzed, the article is likely to need or poorly undergo a large spate of of editing, and it'll need a re-review then. Let's hold off on approval until the results are tallied. theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (she/her) 09:43, 13 February 2023 (UTC)

Article has been updated by HapHaxion. CMD (talk) 13:15, 3 March 2023 (UTC)

Pinging Elli and theleekycauldron to see whether their concerns have been addressed by the updates. Thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 16:19, 17 March 2023 (UTC)

Gonna defer to Elli on that one, I think :) theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (she/her) 22:20, 17 March 2023 (UTC)

The final results seems pretty clear, despite one zone is still working through it, so if that is the concern I think this can go ahead now. Since my creation HapHaxion has gotten to the updates very fast, I'd like to request the promoter include them in the credits. I have inserted the code above. CMD (talk) 14:23, 24 March 2023 (UTC)

Sorry for not replying earlier. Are the final results still pending? Regardless, if it's succeeded (which it looks like it numerically has), the article should state that in the prose. Elli (talk | contribs) 18:11, 12 April 2023 (UTC)

The results are approved for all areas except Wolayita, and the final result is pretty clear. I have clarified a bit more in the results section. CMD (talk) 01:38, 13 April 2023 (UTC)

looks good. Thanks for your work on this article! Elli (talk | contribs) 12:06, 13 April 2023 (UTC)