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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 PFHLai (talk) 03:55, 17 January 2014 (UTC)

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Dump months[edit]

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  • ALT1:... that The Silence of the Lambs is the only post-studio era movie that went into wide release during the winter dump months to win the Academy Award for Best Picture?
  • Reviewed: Bernabe Costas de Miranda
  • Comment: I propose the hook for January 3, the first weekend day of the winter dump-months season. It may be a little unencyclopedic but it'll be relevant and it will get clicks. If we want something less catchy (but less date-specific), we can go with the second one.

    While it's certainly long enough, it's by no means complete, and I will be adding more to it over the Christmas holidays, so there might well be other possible hooks.

UPDATE: OK, it's done. I suppose we could still use the original hook, maybe even tying it into an upcoming dump release like The Legend of Hercules. And here's another one:

Created by Daniel Case (talk). Self nominated at 19:23, 24 December 2013 (UTC).

  • The following has been checked in this review by Maile
  • QPQ done by Daniel Case on Dec 24, 2013
  • Article created by Daniel Case on December 19, 2013 and has 36,617 characters of readable prose
  • Appropriately sourced throughout
  • Striking original hook that was meant for January 3 main page
  • ATL11 Hook is 163 characters, stated in the article and sourced
  • ATL2 Hook is 153 characters, stated in the article and sourced
  • Duplication Detector spot check found no copyvio
  • Disambig links tool found no issues
  • External links tool found no issues
Good 2 go. Lots of work went into this article. — Maile (talk) 14:56, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
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