Template:Did you know nominations/London Irish Amateur

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The result was: promoted by Allen3 ^talk 13:50, 3 March 2014 (UTC)

London Irish Amateur

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• ... that London Irish Wild Geese were founded after London Irish left The Avenue to move to Reading?

• Reviewed: The Quality of Mercy (Shakespeare quote)

Created by The C of E (talk). Self nominated at 07:05, 1 March 2014 (UTC).

• Unfortunately I think this fails on the x5 expansion criterion. It is not a new article, but was merged in the past to London Irish. The character count at London Irish is 339 and the old article here was 565. The current article is 1535 so fails against both. Also references 2 and 3 are broken and reference 5 doesn't mention the Avenue, so that part of the hook is unverified. In fact, the refs need sorting out as there's an error with ref 4 and ref 7 doesn't seem to produce any useful information. Pity because it's otherwise a neat article. Hope this helps. --Bermicourt (talk) 11:16, 1 March 2014 (UTC)

• It is classed as a new article under 1.b of the eligibility rules as a former redirect. The C of E God Save the Queen! (talk) 11:27, 1 March 2014 (UTC)

• I'm not sure this article is within the spirit of 1.b which I suspect means a redirect that's only ever been a redirect, not a previous article on the same topic. However, as it doesn't spell that out I'll give it the benefit of the doubt. The refs now look okay apart from the archived one; the only part of the hook I can't verify is that London Irish played at The Avenue before Reading. The ref only talks about Sunbury. Can we nail this down? --Bermicourt (talk) 12:40, 1 March 2014 (UTC)

• Sunbury is referring to the Avenue, since that is where it is. But to make it easier, I'll change the hook to say Sunbury. The C of E God Save the Queen! (talk) 12:48, 1 March 2014 (UTC)

• On second thoughts, I found a source for the original wording. The C of E God Save the Queen! (talk) 12:59, 1 March 2014 (UTC)

• Long enough, well-referenced, reads fine, hook interesting and covered by the refs, and new enough (assuming 1.b is enough to classify it as a new article, if not 1.b needs rewording!). Let's run it. --Bermicourt (talk) 14:20, 1 March 2014 (UTC)