Template:Did you know nominations/City bonds robbery

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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 21:15, 4 July 2020 (UTC)

City bonds robbery

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~~... that a man was once robbed of almost £300 million in the City of London?~~ Source: https://www.coinworld.com/news/precious-metals/rare-1-000-000-pound-bank-of-england-treasury-note-is-in-sale

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Nikisha Fogo

Moved to mainspace by Mujinga (talk). Self-nominated at 19:53, 23 June 2020 (UTC).

Date, length OK. AGF on offline source for the hook. However @Mujinga:, the whole of that large lead section is unreferenced and needs sources added beore I can approve it. QPQ is done with no close paraphrasing. Please ping me once this is done and I can approve it. The C of E God Save the Queen! (talk) 10:48, 26 June 2020 (UTC)

@The C of E: Hi thanks for the review. I'm a bit baffled why I should add references to the lead, since everything is referenced below in the text (or should be) and the lead fits MOS:LEADLENGTH. I suppose I could add the reference for the DYK directly in the lead but I'd rather not to be honest, please could you let me know what you think about that. Also the reference in question is linked above, it's not offline. Mujinga (talk) 20:20, 26 June 2020 (UTC)

MOS:CITELEAD. I'd say a lead section that large should have at least some citations in it. The C of E God Save the Queen! (talk) 21:54, 26 June 2020 (UTC)

@The C of E: I added some refs for you Mujinga (talk) 16:43, 28 June 2020 (UTC)

Good to go then. The C of E God Save the Queen! (talk) 21:58, 28 June 2020 (UTC)

@The C of E: I'm afraid I don't understand your rationale for asking for cites in the lead. If the information is non-controversial and fully referenced below, there is no need for it. Additionally, those few references look out of place in the long text. I think they should be removed. Best, Yoninah (talk) 21:44, 29 June 2020 (UTC)

OK, I came by to promote this. @Mujinga: your bolded link in the hook doesn't make sense. The article is about a robbery, not about £300 million. Yoninah (talk) 21:47, 29 June 2020 (UTC)

ALT1 ... that a man was once robbed of almost £300 million in the City of London? Source: https://www.coinworld.com/news/precious-metals/rare-1-000-000-pound-bank-of-england-treasury-note-is-in-sale
@Yoninah: I added this alt for you Mujinga (talk) 17:21, 4 July 2020 (UTC)

Thank you. Better to expand it this way:
ALT1a: ... that a man was once robbed of nearly £300 million in the City of London? Yoninah (talk) 18:47, 4 July 2020 (UTC)

Coming to promote. I think it's more accurate to say:
ALT1b: ... that a courier was once robbed of nearly £300 million in the City of London? Yoninah (talk) 21:15, 4 July 2020 (UTC)