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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.
Overall: Many thanks for the nomination. I've re-written the hook - the connection with Ocaña-Merckx is the most interesting. The citation for ALT1 does not corroborate the hook, but not necessary since ALT2 will be the hook. Article however needs some basic copy-editing: geography section (1st para: too many citations (7!) / 2nd para - seems like promo / 3rd para is not geographic related) and second paragraph in Tour de France section (first sentence "Tour" appears twice with "it"/ took victory - won / next time Orcières-Merlette was visited by the Tour was - the Tour returned to Orcières-Merlette). If you can just address the copy editing, it will be GTG. Goldsztajn (talk) 07:32, 29 May 2020 (UTC)Reply
Thank you for the review. I have rearranged some of the article, so the section names are more relevant. I have removed a bit of the "promotional" paragraph, but I don't think that basic information about a ski resort e.g. how large it is, how many pistes, is promotional, and it's the sort of thing covered somewhere in most ski resort articles. Where I've moved paragraphs, there are now 5 in the first 3 lines, but this cannot be easily cut down, as each section of sentence is cited by different sources. Let me know if this is better. Joseph2302 (talk)15:55, 29 May 2020 (UTC)Reply
The changes in the section headings make it much better, thanks! Perhaps a little more copy-editing but nothing anymore that should slow up the DYK; GTG for me. Regards,--Goldsztajn (talk) 21:00, 29 May 2020 (UTC)Reply
Hi, I came by to promote ALT2, but the article doesn't say anything about Merckx being the 1970 champion. (Needs a cite if you add it.) Alternately, you could leave it out of the hook. Yoninah (talk) 23:47, 8 June 2020 (UTC)Reply
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Many thanks for the nomination. I've re-written the hook - the connection with Ocaña-Merckx is the most interesting. The citation for ALT1 does not corroborate the hook, but not necessary since ALT2 will be the hook. Article however needs some basic copy-editing: geography section (1st para: too many citations (7!) / 2nd para - seems like promo / 3rd para is not geographic related) and second paragraph in Tour de France section (first sentence "Tour" appears twice with "it"/ took victory - won / next time Orcières-Merlette was visited by the Tour was - the Tour returned to Orcières-Merlette). If you can just address the copy editing, it will be GTG. Goldsztajn (talk) 07:32, 29 May 2020 (UTC)
Hi, I came by to promote ALT2, but the article doesn't say anything about Merckx being the 1970 champion. (Needs a cite if you add it.) Alternately, you could leave it out of the hook. Yoninah (talk) 23:47, 8 June 2020 (UTC)
Thank you. Restoring tick per Goldsztajn's review. Yoninah (talk) 11:24, 9 June 2020 (UTC)