The following discussion is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify it. 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 PumpkinSky talk 16:02, 4 December 2011 (UTC)

Melville Lyons, Christchurch South by-election, 1939, Christchurch East by-election, 1943

• ... that Melville Lyons' 1925 election to the New Zealand Parliament was overturned after four month, and the other candidate was declared elected instead?
• ALT1 ... that Melville Lyons of the New Zealand National Party never had a chance of winning the 1939 by-election in the Christchurch South electorate?
• ALT2 ... that Melville Lyons of the New Zealand National Party unsuccessfully contested by-elections in 1935, 1939 and 1943?

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Culture in music cognition
• Comment: 5x expanded. There's still more material to be added to the article, so it'll keep growing.

Created/expanded by Schwede66 ( talk). Self nom at 05:09, 14 November 2011 (UTC)

• I've now turned this into a double nomination. Schwede 66 20:01, 14 November 2011 (UTC)

• I've written up another by-election article. That's it now in terms of the number of articles. Schwede 66 18:30, 19 November 2011 (UTC)

• Reviewing.-- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ BIO/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 23:43, 1 December 2011 (UTC)

• Great - thanks, Tony. I've just put something on the article's talk page and would like to get your opinion (and the opinion of anybody else, for that matter) on that. Schwede 66 00:13, 2 December 2011 (UTC)

• Do you have the right ref for the 1943 election in the Lyon article?-- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ BIO/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 03:01, 2 December 2011 (UTC)

• Could you be more specific, please? For a start, there are two 1943 elections mentioned in the article (the by-election and the general election), and there are several references covering the by-election.Found the wrong ref and have fixed it. And by the way, I have replied to your comment on the article's talk page but it seems you haven't seen that yet. Schwede 66 17:56, 2 December 2011 (UTC)

• Ref 11 from Christchurch East by-election, 1943 should replace the second use of ref 15 at Melville Lyons.-- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ BIO/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 18:53, 2 December 2011 (UTC)

• Good spotting - thanks. Fixed. Schwede 66 20:00, 2 December 2011 (UTC)

• Good to go. Refs, date, length and hooks all check out.-- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ BIO/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 12:24, 4 December 2011 (UTC)