Template:Did you know nominations/Antonia Bolingbroke-Kent

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The result was: rejected by SL93 (talk) 03:46, 24 June 2019 (UTC)
The issues were not resolved in a timely manner.

Antonia Bolingbroke-Kent[edit]

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Antonia Bolingbroke-Kent

... that Antonia Bolingbroke-Kent (pictured) set a Guinness World Record with "Ting Tong"? Source: Not very many months later the pair of us were thundering across China’s Gobi desert in Ting Tong, our shockingly pink three-wheeled steed, heading in the general direction of England. In 98 days of tukking we covered 12,783 miles, two continents and 12 countries and survived an earthquake, several landslides and the odd lascivious Russian. We also set the Guinness World Record for the Longest Ever Journey by Auto-Rickshaw Source

Created by Roxedl (talk). Self-nominated at 09:04, 7 May 2019 (UTC).

There's a few issues here that would need to be addressed. The prose needs at least an extra 350 characters to make this long enough for DYK. One paragraph is mostly uncited, and that includes the mention of "Ting Tong" and the World Record. Most of the article is sourced to the subject's blog or book. I'm sure that what she writes is true, but claims like these need some reliable third-party sourcing, ideally perhaps something official from Guinness itself. The image would probably benefit from cropping but is perhaps misleading with the hook as it suggests the vehicle is Ting Tong, which it isn't. Spokoyni (talk) 21:11, 16 May 2019 (UTC)

In the meantime I did some additions and a ref for the record. Unfortunately I did not find any ref from Guinness, and the record must have been broken again shortly afterwardsby the actual record holder, a bit strange, I agree. Roxedl (talk) 15:59, 19 May 2019 (UTC)

It wouldn't necessarily need to be from Guinness, but a statement like that really needs to be supported by a third party RS. Similarly the article is still too small, and large parts are unsourced, including the hook fact. And the article still leans too heavily on the subject's own blog and books to satisfy policies (I notice there has also been an issue with an COI editor). This is still some way from being acceptable for DYK - do you think you will be able to bring it in line? Spokoyni (talk) 23:05, 19 May 2019 (UTC)

I added some more points. I assume RS means also BBC. Indeed I already doubted the Guinness world record, as – at least – another, the actual world record must have come in shortly afterwards and there are no more RS stating this (if not quite obviously from the lemma itself, the sum raised for Mind also varies from 37.000 GBP – BBC – to 60.000 GBP – RGS). The Guinness website in the past (in the Wayback Machine) does not help either. I picked some points from the COI editor, and there the mention "recipient of the 2019 Neville Shulman Challenge Award" puzzled me again, as this might be awarded in November …). The article has actually 5435 bytes, counting only the words in my local editor it is 2600 (sorry, I was absolutely unaware of this big difference) – the limit is 3500, right? Roxedl (talk) 12:31, 20 May 2019 (UTC)

Besides the length problem, is there the possibility to change the DYK intro? Sorry, I am new to DYK, sorry for making a bit cumbersome the whole process. Roxedl (talk) 12:35, 20 May 2019 (UTC)

Nominator has been mostly inactive since the day of the nomination, save for a single edit on June 4. I'll leave them a final message, but due to it being unlikely that the issues could be resolved in a prompt timeframe, this nomination is now marked for closure. Narutolovehinata5 ^tccsdnew 10:11, 21 June 2019 (UTC)