Template:Did you know nominations/Operación Alacrán

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) 09:17, 18 March 2020 (UTC)

Operación Alacrán

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Luis Parra

~~... that Operación Alacrán was an attempted corruption plot that forces deputies to vote in favor of Luis Parra (pictured) instead of incumbent president Juan Guaidó in exchange for bribes?~~ Source: CNN Radio Argentina — "Venezuelan deputy Delsa Solórzano denounced on Wednesday on CNN Radio that President Nicolás Maduro launched an operation called Alacrán that seeks to buy millions of dollars from opposition legislators to prevent Juan Guaidó from being re-elected head of Parliament on 5 January."
- ALT1:~~... that the United States imposed sanctions on Luis Parra (pictured) and six other politicians relating to a Maduro-linked corruption plot called Operación Alacrán?~~Source: Reuters — "The United States on Monday imposed sanctions on seven Venezuelan politicians it said led a bid by President Nicolas Maduro to wrest control of the country’s congress from U.S.-backed opposition leader Juan Guaido... Washington blacklisted Parra and six of his allies “who, at the bidding of Maduro, attempted to block the democratic process in Venezuela,” U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said in a statement. The other Maduro-aligned politicians sanctioned on Monday are: Jose Noriega, Franklyn Duarte, Jose Brito, Conrado Perez, Adolfo Superlano and Negal Morales."

Comment: New article, already expanded several days ago but I waited for copy editing before the nomination. After the copy editing, one user who did the copy-editing recommended to me to nominate here immediately.

Created by Cyfraw (talk). Self-nominated at 21:39, 31 January 2020 (UTC).

Hi, Cyfraw, and welcome to DYK. Let's go over this nomination step by step. I assume you're nominating only one article, Operación Alacrán, which you created on January 14. The DYK rules call for a 7-day window in which to nominate a new, expanded, or new GA article. Next time you might want to nominate immediately and note that you have asked for a copy-edit. Since this is your first nomination, I will IAR and accept the nomination even though it's a week late.
When you nominate an article, that's the only one you should put in the template. The fact that you're linking to pre-existing articles doesn't figure into the DYK credits. So I have struck the nomination credits for 2020 Venezuelan National Assembly Delegated Committee election, Luis Parra, and Juan Guaidó.
I have struck ALT0 because it says too much. ALT1 is okay, but your non-Spanish speaking audience doesn't really care what it's called as long as they know what it is. It might be punchier to pipe the link this way:
ALT1a: ... that the United States imposed sanctions on Luis Parra (pictured) and six other politicians relating to an alleged Maduro-linked corruption plot?
Here is a full review: Newness IAR, long enough, neutrally written, well referenced. Unable to check for close paraphrasing as all sources are foreign-language. Image is freely licensed. No QPQ needed for nominator with less than 5 DYK credits.
In addition to checking the alt hook, please remove all the non-controversial cites from the lead. In general, five cites in a row are three too many. Thanks, Yoninah (talk) 21:39, 19 February 2020 (UTC)

Ok, I will take a look on the article and fix the corrections. Anyway, thanks for the advice. --cyrfaw (talk) 08:34, 20 February 2020 (UTC)

As of now, I'm still reviewing the article according to your comments but the ALT1a blurb looks well for me. Thanks --cyrfaw (talk) 19:18, 21 February 2020 (UTC)

@Cyfraw: thank you. Let me know when you're finished. Yoninah (talk) 17:37, 22 February 2020 (UTC)

It's now finished. Please review the article again in case of missing items. --cyrfaw (talk) 08:31, 29 February 2020 (UTC)

@Cyfraw: thank you. What are you going to do about the sentence with the "citation needed" tag? We could comment it out until after this runs on the main page. Yoninah (talk) 20:48, 29 February 2020 (UTC)

For the citation needed tag, I'm still finding a reliable reference either in English or Spanish. However, this can be ignored if ok. The sentenced will be removed if no citations are found supporting the statement. --cyrfaw (talk) 20:56, 29 February 2020 (UTC)

@Cyfraw: please finish what you have to do with this article and let me know it's done. Thanks, Yoninah (talk) 22:49, 5 March 2020 (UTC)

Ok, by this week I hope it will be finished or in a few days. --cyrfaw (talk) 08:23, 6 March 2020 (UTC)

Done. --cyrfaw (talk) 09:10, 9 March 2020 (UTC)

Thank you. I removed more unnecessary cites from the lead and also added "alleged" to the hook, per the article. ALT1a good to go. Yoninah (talk) 12:15, 9 March 2020 (UTC)

Thank you, let me know when the DYK process is complete. --cyrfaw (talk) 14:13, 9 March 2020 (UTC)

@Cyfraw: why not watchlist this nomination page so you'll see when it's promoted to the prep sets. Then keep an eye on T:DYK/Q to watch it advance to a main page appearance. Best, Yoninah (talk) 16:27, 9 March 2020 (UTC)

Done --cyrfaw (talk) 08:16, 10 March 2020 (UTC)