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Featured articleJohn Oliver is a featured article; it (or a previous version of it) has been identified as one of the best articles produced by the Wikipedia community. Even so, if you can update or improve it, please do so.
Article milestones
DateProcessResult
August 5, 2023 Good article nomineeListed
August 29, 2023 Featured article candidatePromoted
Did You Know
A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the " Did you know?" column on August 18, 2023.
The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that John Oliver has been credited with influencing United States law and culture, a phenomenon dubbed the "John Oliver effect"?
Current status: Featured article

Did you know nomination

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 Bruxton ( talk) 16:11, 9 August 2023 (UTC) reply

Oliver in 2016
Oliver in 2016
Oliver in 2014
Oliver in 2014

Improved to Good Article status by MyCatIsAChonk ( talk). Self-nominated at 15:01, 5 August 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/John Oliver; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page. reply

General: Article is new enough and long enough

Policy compliance:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
QPQ: Done.

Overall: ALT1 and IMG0 preferred. Earwig shows 65.4% copyvio with Oliver's Christ's College Alumni page as well as a Business Insider article. Festucalextalk 12:03, 6 August 2023 (UTC) reply

@ Festucalex: I always forget something, thanks for finding this issue. Think it's fixed now. MyCatIsAChonk ( talk) ( not me) ( also not me) ( still no) 16:37, 6 August 2023 (UTC) reply
@ MyCatIsAChonk: It's at 39.4% now; please try to get it below 32%. Here's the Earwig link if you want to compare. I'm not sure how this high copyvio score wasn't caught earlier in AryKun's GA review. Festucalextalk 16:53, 6 August 2023 (UTC) reply
I checked the revision of the article I passed, and I don't think there was a copyvio problem there. There were about three sentences that could be classed as copyvio; the rest was just names, stock phrases, and small factual bits that couldn't be paraphrased. I guess I should have been more insistent on changing those couple sentences, maybe, but even with what I would say is almost no copyvio, Earwig still returns almost 40%, so I'm not really sure how great a metric that is. AryKun ( talk) 18:04, 6 August 2023 (UTC) reply
@ Festucalex: Most of what it's catching are long names and quotes, so I'm not sure how I can do anything more than cut quotes. Regardless, I did my best to fix it again. MyCatIsAChonk ( talk) ( not me) ( also not me) ( still no) 17:39, 6 August 2023 (UTC) reply
All good now. ALT1 and IMG0 preferred. Festucalextalk 18:09, 6 August 2023 (UTC) reply
I think ALT1 is not factually correct so will promote ALT0 without objection. Bruxton ( talk) 16:10, 9 August 2023 (UTC) reply


Citizenship

It currently lists his citizenship as American and British. As he actively applied for US citizen (rather than getting it through accident of birth) would he not be required to reliquish his British citizenship? 51.149.8.48 ( talk) 11:22, 29 April 2024 (UTC) reply

No, he has dual citizenship. Barry Wom ( talk) 11:35, 29 April 2024 (UTC) reply
No. He’s been a British subject since birth and remains so. You’d have done better to have checked, or posted here, before editing the article. MapReader ( talk) 13:16, 29 April 2024 (UTC) reply
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Featured articleJohn Oliver is a featured article; it (or a previous version of it) has been identified as one of the best articles produced by the Wikipedia community. Even so, if you can update or improve it, please do so.
Article milestones
DateProcessResult
August 5, 2023 Good article nomineeListed
August 29, 2023 Featured article candidatePromoted
Did You Know
A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the " Did you know?" column on August 18, 2023.
The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that John Oliver has been credited with influencing United States law and culture, a phenomenon dubbed the "John Oliver effect"?
Current status: Featured article

Did you know nomination

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 Bruxton ( talk) 16:11, 9 August 2023 (UTC) reply

Oliver in 2016
Oliver in 2016
Oliver in 2014
Oliver in 2014

Improved to Good Article status by MyCatIsAChonk ( talk). Self-nominated at 15:01, 5 August 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/John Oliver; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page. reply

General: Article is new enough and long enough

Policy compliance:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
QPQ: Done.

Overall: ALT1 and IMG0 preferred. Earwig shows 65.4% copyvio with Oliver's Christ's College Alumni page as well as a Business Insider article. Festucalextalk 12:03, 6 August 2023 (UTC) reply

@ Festucalex: I always forget something, thanks for finding this issue. Think it's fixed now. MyCatIsAChonk ( talk) ( not me) ( also not me) ( still no) 16:37, 6 August 2023 (UTC) reply
@ MyCatIsAChonk: It's at 39.4% now; please try to get it below 32%. Here's the Earwig link if you want to compare. I'm not sure how this high copyvio score wasn't caught earlier in AryKun's GA review. Festucalextalk 16:53, 6 August 2023 (UTC) reply
I checked the revision of the article I passed, and I don't think there was a copyvio problem there. There were about three sentences that could be classed as copyvio; the rest was just names, stock phrases, and small factual bits that couldn't be paraphrased. I guess I should have been more insistent on changing those couple sentences, maybe, but even with what I would say is almost no copyvio, Earwig still returns almost 40%, so I'm not really sure how great a metric that is. AryKun ( talk) 18:04, 6 August 2023 (UTC) reply
@ Festucalex: Most of what it's catching are long names and quotes, so I'm not sure how I can do anything more than cut quotes. Regardless, I did my best to fix it again. MyCatIsAChonk ( talk) ( not me) ( also not me) ( still no) 17:39, 6 August 2023 (UTC) reply
All good now. ALT1 and IMG0 preferred. Festucalextalk 18:09, 6 August 2023 (UTC) reply
I think ALT1 is not factually correct so will promote ALT0 without objection. Bruxton ( talk) 16:10, 9 August 2023 (UTC) reply


Citizenship

It currently lists his citizenship as American and British. As he actively applied for US citizen (rather than getting it through accident of birth) would he not be required to reliquish his British citizenship? 51.149.8.48 ( talk) 11:22, 29 April 2024 (UTC) reply

No, he has dual citizenship. Barry Wom ( talk) 11:35, 29 April 2024 (UTC) reply
No. He’s been a British subject since birth and remains so. You’d have done better to have checked, or posted here, before editing the article. MapReader ( talk) 13:16, 29 April 2024 (UTC) reply

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