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The result was: promoted by
Yoninah (
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Article is new enough and long enough. #2 does not contain the birthplace or Verwoerd's term length. AGFing on #3. What's "matric"? #1 does not say that Verwoerd was assassinated, which is a problem for the hook. No copyvio that I can see. Is this your first DYK?
Jo-Jo Eumerus (
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contributions) 09:53, 8 September 2019 (UTC)reply
@
Jo-Jo Eumerus: I have performed a few fixes. Now for clarity, the article already contained Boshoff's birthplace and Verwoerd's term length (I have now added it more to be clearer). "
Matric" is a South African term for graduating from high school. I have changed to "vowing in high school". Hook 1 & 2 undoubtedly contain the word "assassinated". No, this is actually my third DYK, the previous two articles did not qualify.
LefcentrerightTalk 10:10, 8 September 2019 (UTC)reply
@
Jo-Jo Eumerus: I have performed another round of fixes. Is the hook adequate? Do you maybe have a suggestion for a hook?
LefcentrerightTalk 10:37, 8 September 2019 (UTC)reply
One last thing would be to source " Wynand Johannes Boshoff" in the infobox; I see it's in one of the sources.
Jo-Jo Eumerus (
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The result was: promoted by
Yoninah (
talk) 20:57, 14 September 2019 (UTC)reply
Article is new enough and long enough. #2 does not contain the birthplace or Verwoerd's term length. AGFing on #3. What's "matric"? #1 does not say that Verwoerd was assassinated, which is a problem for the hook. No copyvio that I can see. Is this your first DYK?
Jo-Jo Eumerus (
talk,
contributions) 09:53, 8 September 2019 (UTC)reply
@
Jo-Jo Eumerus: I have performed a few fixes. Now for clarity, the article already contained Boshoff's birthplace and Verwoerd's term length (I have now added it more to be clearer). "
Matric" is a South African term for graduating from high school. I have changed to "vowing in high school". Hook 1 & 2 undoubtedly contain the word "assassinated". No, this is actually my third DYK, the previous two articles did not qualify.
LefcentrerightTalk 10:10, 8 September 2019 (UTC)reply
@
Jo-Jo Eumerus: I have performed another round of fixes. Is the hook adequate? Do you maybe have a suggestion for a hook?
LefcentrerightTalk 10:37, 8 September 2019 (UTC)reply
One last thing would be to source " Wynand Johannes Boshoff" in the infobox; I see it's in one of the sources.
Jo-Jo Eumerus (
talk,
contributions) 11:21, 8 September 2019 (UTC)reply