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.
Improved to Good Article status by Britishfinance (talk). Self-nominated at 10:22, 18 April 2020 (UTC).
The article was promoted to Good Article status in the past 24 hours, so it is new enough. Being a Good Article, it is more than long enough and i'm not seeing any neutrality issues or citation problems. I think i'd suggest the original hook to be the one used, as that is more to the punch. The alt is a little too specific and long. The original hook is interesting and is cited inline properly. The QPQ has been done and the image suggested is of proper use and looks fine. Everything looks good to go. SilverserenC 23:31, 18 April 2020 (UTC)
Returned from prep. Image has been nominated for deletion. I don't think the first hook works without an image. The alt hook is better but needs to be shortened. Thanks, Yoninah (talk) 09:57, 12 May 2020 (UTC)
Thanks Yoninah, and I left a note for Cwmhiraeth on the article talk page to undo the promotion as I think the nomination for image deletion is correct and looks like it was a "Flickr washing" account (I thought it was a studio sharing their work). I think the hook can still work but without the (pictured) part? Of, course, it would be a pity not to have a visual image given his trade, and this could work (quote is directly from the article and inline cited, and picture is alongside)? Britishfinance (talk) 10:07, 12 May 2020 (UTC)
ALT2: ... that Irish milliner Philip Treacy said "There was a moment where I thought I would find myself with my head on a spike outside the Tower of London", from the controversy of Princess Beatrice of York's "pretzel hat" (pictured)?
Britishfinance, I've had to strike ALT2 because, at 215 prose characters, it is well above the DYK absolute maximum of 200. In addition, the photo of the pretzel hat in the article is not a good photo and the hat is difficult to see clearly, so if the hat is ultimately used for the hook it shouldn't be a pictured one. A possible (189 prose character) variant of ALT2:
ALT2a: ... that Irish milliner Philip Treacy said of his controversial "pretzel hat" for Princess Beatrice of York, "I thought I would find myself with my head on a spike outside the Tower of London"?
BlueMoonset, that is much better. Agree that the picture is not great but it would be a shame not to have a picture of the hat - I found this on another WP article on hats which is the hat in question? . Britishfinance (talk) 17:15, 30 May 2020 (UTC)
Britishfinance, the problem with the drawing is that we don't know the provenance of it (I doubt it's Treacy's drawing) and it's the wrong color (pink; not the color of a pretzel at all). It's probably a random person's illustration of the hat, but without Princess Beatrice in it I just don't think it's an appropriate image to run on the main page. (There are nice photos of the displayed hat itself, sans Beatrice, on the Met's website, but they're copyright and therefore unusable.) It also doesn't fit in the article, which has the clearly more appropriate image of the Princess wearing the hat, and DYK rules require that the image be in the article to be useable in the nomination. BlueMoonset (talk) 00:56, 31 May 2020 (UTC)
BlueMoonset, that is a good point. I have tried to look elsewhere for a better useable photo of Princess Beatrice wearing the hat but with no luck. I guess we should just drop the photo and proceed with ALT2a? thanks. Britishfinance (talk) 10:15, 31 May 2020 (UTC)
Pinging Yoninah to check ALT2a and give her thoughts on whether this is the way to proceed. BlueMoonset (talk) 15:01, 31 May 2020 (UTC)
Well, according to the source, the hook should read:
ALT2b: ... that Irish milliner Philip Treacy said of the controversy surrounding his "pretzel hat" for Princess Beatrice of York, "I thought I would find myself with my head on a spike outside the Tower of London"?
I think it's a good hook to run without an image. Hook ref verified and cited inline. ALT2b good to go. Yoninah (talk) 14:05, 3 June 2020 (UTC)
The article was promoted to Good Article status in the past 24 hours, so it is new enough. Being a Good Article, it is more than long enough and i'm not seeing any neutrality issues or citation problems. I think i'd suggest the original hook to be the one used, as that is more to the punch. The alt is a little too specific and long. The original hook is interesting and is cited inline properly. The QPQ has been done and the image suggested is of proper use and looks fine. Everything looks good to go. SilverserenC 23:31, 18 April 2020 (UTC)
Returned from prep. Image has been nominated for deletion. I don't think the first hook works without an image. The alt hook is better but needs to be shortened. Thanks, Yoninah (talk) 09:57, 12 May 2020 (UTC)
