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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 Allen3 talk 12:09, 20 January 2014 (UTC)

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Mehdi Jomaa[edit]

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  • ... that Mehdi Jomaa quit his professional career to contribute to Tunisia's transition into democracy?

Created by Gfosankar (talk). Self nominated at 14:22, 17 December 2013 (UTC).

  • Alt1 ... that Tunisia's Prime Minister Mehdi Jomaa quit his career as an aerospace engineer to contribute to his nation's transition into democracy? — Maile (talk) 22:47, 21 December 2013 (UTC)
  • Although hook is verified by this French language article, I'm not too comfortable recommending this DYK. The article requires cleanup. The CNN source is evidently a press release which I have some issues with. I also don't like the phrasing of the hook. First he is the acting prime minister. How about:
  • ALT2 ... that Mehdi Jomaa quit his engineering career in order to become the acting prime minister of Tunisia? EagerToddler39 (talk) 02:53, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
  • New enough, long enough, adequately supported by footnotes, no evidence of copyvio, and QPQ is done. The fundamental facts in the hooks check out in general, but I have to insist on new wording because I have specific concerns with all of the proposed hooks. My concerns are that (1) it's not entirely clear that he completely "quit" his other career (he could go back), (2) he wasn't necessarily working as an aerospace engineer before joining the government (it looks to me like he was a corporate executive), (3) "contribute to ... transition to democracy" is a bit POV-ish and doesn't make an interesting hook, and (4) ALT3 violates WP:CRYSTAL, in that it predicts the future. Here's my revised wording, which is fully supported by the article and the cited sources:
  • ALT4: ... that Tunisia's new interim prime minister, Mehdi Jomaa, is trained as an engineer? --Orlady (talk) 00:25, 19 January 2014 (UTC)
  • for ALT4. I wonder if "was" would be better than "is" in the hook. The rest reviewed above by Orlady. --PFHLai (talk) 16:10, 19 January 2014 (UTC)
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