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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 Cwmhiraeth (talk) 18:25, 29 October 2021 (UTC)

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Above Znoneofthe

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  • ... that a Canadian man legally changed his name to appear as "none of the above" on electoral ballots? Source: Reilly, Katie (January 30, 2016). "Man Legally Changes Name to 'Above Znoneofthe' to Appear Last on Ballot". Time. Retrieved September 29, 2021.
    • ALT0a:... that a Canadian man legally changed his name to run in elections as "Znoneofthe, Above", with a Z to be sorted below other candidates? Source: as above
    • ALT0b ... that Canadian politician Above Znoneofthe chose his name to be placed last on alphabetical ballots?
    • ALT1: ... that Rhinoceros Party politician Above Znoneofthe chose his name to be placed last on alphabetical ballots?

Created by Ivanvector (talk). Self-nominated, as alt account PEIsquirrel (talk), at 13:05, 7 October 2021 (UTC).

  • General eligibility:
  • New enough: Yes
  • Long enough: No - Article clocks in at 1,058 prose characters—the minimum requirement would be 1,500

Policy compliance:

Hook eligibility:

  • Cited: Yes
  • Interesting: Yes
  • Other problems: No - The name should be bolded, and I feel like the hook could be a little punchier? I've suggested an ALT2.
QPQ: None required.

Overall: @PEIsquirrel: Hi, welcome to DYK! This nomination will need a bit of work before it's ready to be on the front page, but this is good so far! It's very amusing. theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (they/them) 18:46, 8 October 2021 (UTC)

  • Hi Theleekycauldron, thanks for your review! I am Ivanvector, this is an alt account, and I do have a couple of DYK credits under my main. I wasn't aware there was a minimum length requirement for new articles, I don't think it came up in DYKcheck, but I can flesh it out some. For ALT1, he only ran as a Rhinoceros candidate in the most recent of the elections he's run in. In his first since his name change, he ran as an independent against the leader of the "None of the Above Party", and for several elections after that ran as a candidate for that party, so I'm not sure if we should mention the Rhinoceros Party in the hook. What do you think? Ivanvector's squirrel (trees/nuts) 16:39, 12 October 2021 (UTC)
  • Taking it from here, this article looks to be long enough, decently cited, and neutral. The original hook, in my opinion, is too confusing. As per Theleekycauldron, there isn't a need to mention the Rhinoceros Party in alt1. I'd prefer either alt0a or alt0b.
Overall, this is a pass. Very interesting guy, but perhaps the tables of results shouldn't make up the majority of the article (as in expand the prose if you can). Heythereimaguy (talk) 23:51, 28 October 2021 (UTC)
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