Template:Did you know nominations/Bridge Over Troubled Water

The following discussion 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 Miyagawa (talk) 11:54, 11 August 2012 (UTC)

Bridge Over Troubled Water

(

• Back to T:TDYK
• Article history

)

• ... that despite their Bridge Over Troubled Water having sold 25 million records, earned 6 Grammy Awards and topped the charts in over 10 countries, the duo Simon & Garfunkel split up?

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Pareh

Created/expanded by GreatOrangePumpkin (talk). Self nom at 12:59, 25 July 2012 (UTC)

• The 5x expansion checks out OK. Article is adequately footnoted. I did not run across evidence of close paraphrasing or other plagiarism. QPQ is done. The article is a bit rough, though -- it would benefit from careful copyediting.

Regarding the hook sourcing, I haven't checked all of the online sources for the chart positions in various countries (I was inclined to AGF on some of them), but the article does not identify a source for the six Grammy Awards (AllMusic could be footnoted, but I also note the Bennighof says it won "only" 5 Grammies).

While the proposed hook has elements that ought to interest the reader, for me it was "ho-hum", because I recall that it was commonplace for highly successful bands to split up in those days (this still happens). However, I found some facts in the article about the making of the album that could be used in hooks that would cause me to want to read the article:

• ALT1 ... that Simon & Garfunkel declined an invitation to perform at Woodstock while they were working on the album Bridge Over Troubled Water?
• ALT2 ... that production of the Simon & Garfunkel album Bridge Over Troubled Water was affected by Art Garfunkel's acting role in Catch-22?

Unfortunately, neither of these ALT hook facts is explicitly footnoted (and I can't see several key pages of the Ebel book to see if the content is there). --Orlady (talk) 04:37, 8 August 2012 (UTC)

Thanks. I added a ref behind the Woodstock mention. The album itself won two awards. I can ensure there is no coypvio or similar. I like the ALT 1. Regards.--Kürbis (✔) 10:59, 10 August 2012 (UTC)

Also feel free to leave comments here. Regards.--Kürbis (✔) 12:02, 10 August 2012 (UTC)

ALT1 is verified. The other two hooks aren't adequately cited in the article. Since I drafted the ALT1 hook, the promoting editor should give it a look before moving it to the prep area. --Orlady (talk) 12:43, 10 August 2012 (UTC)