A fact from NearlyFreeSpeech appeared on Wikipedia's
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check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
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... that
web host and
domain name registrarNearlyFreeSpeech was considered for "safe haven" of
alt-rightTwitter alternative
Gab, and in 2012 hosted a controversial anti-
badger culling site? Source: "The social media service Gab, which bills itself as Twitter for the alt-right, is on the verge of being booted from the internet." "Andrew Torba, CEO of the company, posted on Monday that “Gab's domain registrar has given us 5 days to transfer our domain or they will seize it.”" "Torba said that he was hopeful Gab would be able to continue running through
https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/ as a “safe haven.”" "NearlyFreeSpeech's commitment to its credo was tested in 2012 when it hosted a website that displayed the names, home addresses and personal telephone numbers of MPs, farmers and others who were said to be in support of a controversial British policy on badger culling. The domain hosting service hosted the site even as UK's Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs pushed it to take the site down."
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Article created day before nom, prose is 3317 b, CCP met, no copyvios found, hook is short but could be shortened a little and interesting, QPQ not needed since this is only your 4th nom. I'll AGF the books. I've filed a report at
WP:FFD to see if the logo is below
c:COM:TOO, see
here. @
Yae4: Which ones you prefer?
Thank you,
Yae4, but I agree with
Miraclepine that you should choose one fact for a punchier hook rather than crowd in unrelated facts. As I mentioned in another nomination, the point of the hook is to intrigue readers to click on the article, not to tell the whole story in one go.
Yoninah (
talk)
21:00, 28 January 2020 (UTC)reply
@
Yae4: that's okay. But please rewrite that paragraph under Alt-right and other controversies. It should attribute the "safe haven" quote to the CEO, and in a separate sentence talk about the anti-badger culling.
Yoninah (
talk)
21:37, 28 January 2020 (UTC)reply
Thank you. It's important to have the article give a little more information about the hook fact, so readers won't be disappointed when they click on the article. I added some more explanation from the source. ALT7 is verified, cited inline, and good to go.
Yoninah (
talk)
23:13, 28 January 2020 (UTC)reply
A fact from NearlyFreeSpeech appeared on Wikipedia's
Main Page in the Did you know column on 1 February 2020 (
check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Internet, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of the
Internet on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join
the discussion and see a list of open tasks.InternetWikipedia:WikiProject InternetTemplate:WikiProject InternetInternet articles
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.
... that
web host and
domain name registrarNearlyFreeSpeech was considered for "safe haven" of
alt-rightTwitter alternative
Gab, and in 2012 hosted a controversial anti-
badger culling site? Source: "The social media service Gab, which bills itself as Twitter for the alt-right, is on the verge of being booted from the internet." "Andrew Torba, CEO of the company, posted on Monday that “Gab's domain registrar has given us 5 days to transfer our domain or they will seize it.”" "Torba said that he was hopeful Gab would be able to continue running through
https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/ as a “safe haven.”" "NearlyFreeSpeech's commitment to its credo was tested in 2012 when it hosted a website that displayed the names, home addresses and personal telephone numbers of MPs, farmers and others who were said to be in support of a controversial British policy on badger culling. The domain hosting service hosted the site even as UK's Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs pushed it to take the site down."
[1]
Article created day before nom, prose is 3317 b, CCP met, no copyvios found, hook is short but could be shortened a little and interesting, QPQ not needed since this is only your 4th nom. I'll AGF the books. I've filed a report at
WP:FFD to see if the logo is below
c:COM:TOO, see
here. @
Yae4: Which ones you prefer?
Thank you,
Yae4, but I agree with
Miraclepine that you should choose one fact for a punchier hook rather than crowd in unrelated facts. As I mentioned in another nomination, the point of the hook is to intrigue readers to click on the article, not to tell the whole story in one go.
Yoninah (
talk)
21:00, 28 January 2020 (UTC)reply
@
Yae4: that's okay. But please rewrite that paragraph under Alt-right and other controversies. It should attribute the "safe haven" quote to the CEO, and in a separate sentence talk about the anti-badger culling.
Yoninah (
talk)
21:37, 28 January 2020 (UTC)reply
Thank you. It's important to have the article give a little more information about the hook fact, so readers won't be disappointed when they click on the article. I added some more explanation from the source. ALT7 is verified, cited inline, and good to go.
Yoninah (
talk)
23:13, 28 January 2020 (UTC)reply