Template:Did you know nominations/Texas Recreational Road 2, Texas Recreational Road 11

The following is an archived discussion of Texas Recreational Road 2, Texas Recreational Road 11's DYK nomination. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page; such as this archived nomination"s (talk) page, the nominated article's (talk) page, or the Did you know (talk) page. Unless there is consensus to re-open the archived discussion here. No further edits should be made to this page. See the talk page guidelines for (more) information.

The result was: rejected by —♦♦ AMBER^(ЯʘCK) 06:16, 28 April 2013 (UTC).
Didn't pass 5x expansion criteria, and no edits since April 2.

Texas Recreational Road 2, Texas Recreational Road 11

( Back to T:TDYK )

( Article history links:

)

... that Recreational Road 2 is the second oldest route in Texas' Recreational Road system, while Recreational Road 11 is the 11th oldest?

Created/expanded by Awardgive (talk). Self nominated at 04:27, 3 April 2013 (UTC).

This is not a review, but the history of the two articles, which have both been resuscitated from Redirects, is provided here for reviewer clarification:

Texas Recreational Road 2 - Created as a one-sentence article by user Brandonrush on July 11, 2011. Improvements by multiple editors, in paticular nominator Awardgive expanded the article until on February 3, 2013 it had 1,397 characters of readable prose. On that date, user Aircorn proposed this article be merged with List of Recreational Roads in Texas, and the merge was completed on Feb 19, 2013, with the original article title converted into a Redirect. On April 2, 2013, user Awardgive converted the Redirect into its own article, greatly expanding and improving it to its current size of 3,859 characters of readable prose. The article appears to be well-sourced and well-written.
Texas Recreational Road 11 - This one is currently a Good Article nominee. and was created on June 26, 2012 by Awardgive.and by February 2, 2013 had 1,466 characters of readable prose. On that date, user Aircorn proposed this article be merged with List of Recreational Roads in Texas, and the merge was completed on Feb 19, 2013, with the original article title converted into a Redirect. On April 3, 2013, user Awardgive converted the Redirect into its own article, greatly expanding and improving it to its current size of 4,456 characters of readable prose. The article appears to be well-sourced and well-written.

I am unsure myself about the technicalities of the qualification, so I am posting a request for clarification at Wikipedia talk:Did you know#Qualification comment needed. Personally, I think this double-hook would be good on the Main page. — Maile (talk) 12:26, 21 April 2013 (UTC)

I also wonder if a better alternative hook could be suggested. As is, it's not exactly "hooky" that the roads are numbered in sequence of when they are established. Good articles, I think, but maybe a differently worded hook? — Maile (talk) 12:53, 21 April 2013 (UTC)

The content that was there before the redirection which was reinstated doesn't count as original content. Therefore, these articles both miss the 5x expanded target by a long shot. —♦♦ AMBER^(ЯʘCK) 20:22, 23 April 2013 (UTC)

Was the content from the existing articles reused or not? If it wasn't reused verbatim this may still have a chance. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 01:28, 28 April 2013 (UTC)
- Reused ad verbatim. See for yourself. —♦♦ AMBER^(ЯʘCK) 06:14, 28 April 2013 (UTC)