- The following discussion 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 — Crisco 1492 (talk) 01:15, 31 December 2012 (UTC)
Bill Whittle
edit- ... that an internet video by conservative blogger Bill Whittle criticizing the Occupy Wall Street movement has been watched by over 2.4 million viewers on YouTube since October 2011?
- ALT1:... that conservative blogger Bill Whittle's first Afterburner video was a rebuttal to Jon Stewart's assertion on The Daily Show that the atomic bombing of Japan in World War II was a war crime?
- ALT2:... that as a teenager conservative blogger Bill Whittle wrote and directed the light shows for the Miami Space Transit Planetarium?
- ALT3:... that conservative blogger Bill Whittle once applied to the United States Air Force Academy but failed the preliminary medical exam due to "soft vision"?
- ALT4:... that television editor Bill Whittle produced the University of Florida's official tribute video for the Florida Gators following the team's historic win over the Florida State Seminoles at the 1997 Sugar Bowl?
- ALT5:... that an excerpt from conservative blogger Bill Whittle's essay "The Undefended City" was used in the introduction to Robert Ferrigno's 2009 novel Heart of the Assassin?
Created/expanded by 72.74.208.97 (talk). Nominated by 72.74.218.249 (talk) at 17:31, 1 December 2012 (UTC)
- Moved to article space on Nov 30, so new enough. More than sufficient size at 11,523 characters. Abundant inline sourcing. Could not detect any problems with POV or close paraphrasing, looks very good overall. Created and nominated by an IP editor, so QPQ presumably does not apply. Now for the hooks:
OK for the original hook.
AGF for ALT2 and ALT5 (offline sources).
- Problem with ALT1: how do we know it is the first video? Problem with ALT3: "soft vision" is apparently not a quote (it does not appear in the source), so I guess it's an informal name for an eyesight problem - maybe it should be rephrased? Problem with ALT4: too long at 209 characters. I like the original hook and ALT1, both are slightly "controversial", while the rest are only moderately interesting (still, my third choice would be ALT5). GregorB (talk) 19:52, 13 December 2012 (UTC)
Rereview needed. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:29, 20 December 2012 (UTC)
- referencing is now OK with all the paragraphs covered. With the original Hook is good to go. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 01:26, 30 December 2012 (UTC)