Template:Did you know nominations/Old Town Road

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The following 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: rejected by Zanhe (talk) 00:32, 27 August 2019 (UTC)
Not eligible for DYK.

Old Town Road

Lil Nas X
Lil Nas X
  • Comment: Originally proposed this for ITN but no consensus was reached. Some pointed towards phrasing this story for DYK.

Created/expanded by Nice4What (talk). Self-nominated at 13:56, 31 July 2019 (UTC).

  • Comment, just go with Alt 1 because it’s the grammatically correct version. Trillfendi (talk) 16:30, 31 July 2019 (UTC)
  • Alt 1 is the best. --evrik (talk) 16:44, 31 July 2019 (UTC)
General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
QPQ: None required.

Overall: --evrik (talk) 16:49, 31 July 2019 (UTC)

@Evrik and Nice4What: is there something that I'm missing or I can't see that the article created or expanded 5x or promoted to Good Article within the seven days. Looking at the article history Nice4What has made edits however they aren't major edits (meaning not 5x expanded). Also in the review above it says it is new enough but I can see it was created back in March.___CAPTAIN MEDUSAtalk 12:08, 1 August 2019 (UTC)
At the time I looked at it, I thought it grad grown sufficiently, more importantly, it had just crossed the threshold of being the longest #1. --evrik (talk) 19:39, 12 August 2019 (UTC)
  • Regrettably, this article simply does not qualify for DYK: it is not new, it was not expanded fivefold in the seven days prior to nomination (it went from 15256 prose characters to a current length of 15253, essentially flat), and it has not recently become a Good Article. Indeed, the article's only chance here at DYK is to at some point become a Good Article through the nomination process, and then be nominated again here within seven days of being approved. Whether a particular song has become a longest-running #1 or not is completely irrelevant to whether it qualifies for DYK, evrik, except perhaps in the making of a hook; the criteria involve newness and length/expansion within the newness period, plus a number of other things related to the hook, verifiability, neutrality, and so on. Nice4What, I hope you'll try again here at DYK with a newer article, or return with this one if it becomes a GA. BlueMoonset (talk) 05:58, 25 August 2019 (UTC)