Template:Did you know nominations/Geoff Harvey

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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:48, 5 February 2019 (UTC)

Geoff Harvey[edit]

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Geoff Harvey

... that the former musical director for the Nine Network, Geoff Harvey grew his beard as result of losing a bet in 1965 to Don Lane on a football match? Source: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/51604076

Reviewed: Rajeev Nayyar

Created by Ianblair23 (talk). Self-nominated at 03:40, 29 December 2018 (UTC).

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
Freely licensed: Used in article: Clear at 100px:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Great hook, I really wanted to read more DannyS712 (talk) 04:33, 29 December 2018 (UTC)

Returned from prep. The hook is all right, but the article has a lot of close paraphrasing from the trove.nla.gov source. See Earwig's. Please rewrite and reorganize these sentences in your own words. Yoninah (talk) 22:53, 3 January 2019 (UTC)

Note: that source is cited no less that 8 times, and none of the close paraphrasing is passed off as the contributor's own ideas. Just saying --DannyS712 (talk) 23:57, 3 January 2019 (UTC)

Hi Yoninah and DannyS712, I have addressed this issue. Cheers – Ianblair23 (talk) 01:26, 4 January 2019 (UTC)

Thank you for taking care of the close paraphrasing, Ianblair23. To be honest, the more I look at this hook, the more trivial it sounds. People outside Australia will have no idea what he looks like, beard or not, especially if we put this in a non-image slot (which I was planning). He was at Nine Network for nearly four decades; is this the best we can say about him? Yoninah (talk) 18:07, 5 January 2019 (UTC)

Well Yoninah, we could change it to ALT1 ~~... that the former musical director for the Nine Network, Geoff Harvey composed the theme songs for The Sullivans, A Current Affair, Today and Sunday?~~

Or something a bit more quirky ALT2 ... that Geoff Harvey, former musical director for the Nine Network, composed the theme song for The Sullivans for his wife's cousin's wedding? (not yet added to article but sourced here)

Let me know what you think. Cheers – Ianblair23 (talk) 23:05, 5 January 2019 (UTC)

Hi Yoninah, any furthers thoughts on the above? – Ianblair23 (talk) 04:26, 18 January 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for the reminder. But I won't be able to think about this until after Shabbat. Yoninah (talk) 12:26, 18 January 2019 (UTC)

@Ianblair23: ALT2 looks like it will have wider reader interest. Could you add it to the article? Yoninah (talk) 00:57, 21 January 2019 (UTC)

Thanks Yoninah. I have updated the article. Cheers – Ianblair23 (talk) 10:54, 22 January 2019 (UTC)

Thank you. I moved the subject to the front of the ALT2 hook. Hook ref verified and cited inline. ALT2 good to go. Yoninah (talk) 11:12, 22 January 2019 (UTC)