Template:Did you know nominations/Golden Fleece Award

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The result was: promoted by BlueMoonset (talk) 04:05, 20 September 2012 (UTC)

Golden Fleece Award[edit]

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... that winners of William Proxmire's (pictured) Golden Fleece Award for wasteful government spending include the National Institute for Mental Health for researching what went on in a Peruvian brothel?

Comment: Take your pick on which of the examples of spending seem most ridiculous and likely to draw page views. Some of these may be over 200 characters, I admit I haven't counted.
Review: Template:Did you know nominations/Ragnar Hvidsten

Created/expanded by Muboshgu (talk). Self nom at 18:54, 10 September 2012 (UTC)

ALT1:... that winners of William Proxmire's (pictured) Golden Fleece Award for wasteful government spending include the National Institute on Drug Abuse's research on marijuana's effect on sexual arousal?
ALT2:... that winners of William Proxmire's (pictured) Golden Fleece Award for wasteful government spending include the Office of Education for teaching college students how to watch television?
ALT3:... that winners of William Proxmire's (pictured) Golden Fleece Award for wasteful government spending include the United States Department of Justice for conducting a study on why prisoners want to escape?
ALT4:... that winners of William Proxmire's (pictured) Golden Fleece Award for wasteful government spending include the Federal Aviation Administration for a study of the physical measurements of 432 airline stewardesses?
ALT5: ... that winners of William Proxmire's (pictured) Golden Fleece Award for wasteful government spending include Ronald Reagan's 1985 inaugural committee, for spending $15.5 million of taxpayer money on his second inauguration?

In progress Maile66 (talk) 21:14, 15 September 2012 (UTC)
First of all, thank you for expanding this particular article. The world got a little more dull when Proxmire retired. Could you please refine the links done by Reflinks? Ref 18 is an outright Bare URL. Technically, most of the rest are also. They give the name of the publication and say it's Google News Search, but nothing else. Take care of those URLs, and I can go ahead with this review. Maile66 (talk) 21:14, 15 September 2012 (UTC)

I actually didn't know about it until I saw it referenced in a WaPo or NYT article last week (I forget which publication it was). The "Google News Search" refs aren't bare; though I grant they aren't fleshed out, they're not bare url's, and I've had cites like that go through on DYK articles before. The NYT one is bare, sometimes reflinks works on NYT links but sometimes it doesn't. I'll fix that one now and start on the others, which would be fixed before GAN. – Muboshgu (talk) 21:30, 15 September 2012 (UTC)

All refs are filled in. – Muboshgu (talk) 22:20, 18 September 2012 (UTC)

OK. I'm working on this. Thanks. Maile66 (talk) 22:37, 18 September 2012 (UTC)

REVIEW COMPLETED - The following has been checked in this review by Maile66

√QPQ done by Muboshgu on September 15, 2012
√Article created by by Fat pig73 on December 15, 2005 as a stub with 302 characters of readable prose
√Article size on March 12, 2002 before 5X expansion was 489 characters of readable prose
√DYK Check confirms 5X expansion by Muboshgu, with current readable prose of 3018 characters
√NPOV, well-done and well-sourced 5X expansion
√Every paragraph sourced
All hooks are "hooky" and appropriately sourced, ~~but only original hook and Alt 1 and Alt 2 are short enough~~ all hooks are short enough except Alt 5

√Original hook is 199 characteres

√Alt 1 hook is 194 characters

√Alt 2 hook is 185 characters

√Alt 3 is currently ~~202 characters~~ 192 characters

√Alt 4 is currently ~~212 characters~~ 195 characters

→ Alt 5 is currently 225 characters

Image is on Commons as "public domain"~~, but lacking sourcing information~~
√Duplication Detector run, no copyvio found

Good to go with Original hook, hook 1 or hook 2. If author wants to shorten hooks 3,4, and 5, we can re-look at those. Image source needs to be checked out on Commons before it's used. Maile66 (talk) 23:51, 18 September 2012 (UTC)

fixed the sourcing info on the image, so it can be used if so chosen. I'm not sure which hook could be considered the "hookiest", but the three that are slightly too long can be easily fixed, in case one of those are preferred... – Muboshgu (talk) 00:03, 19 September 2012 (UTC)

ALT3 rewrite:... that winners of William Proxmire's (pictured) Golden Fleece Award for wasteful government spending include the United States Department of Justice for researching why prisoners want to escape? (192 characters Maile66 (talk) 00:34, 19 September 2012 (UTC))
ALT4 rewrite:... that winners of William Proxmire's (pictured) Golden Fleece Award for wasteful government spending include a Federal Aviation Administration study of the "length of the buttocks" of stewardesses?(195 characters Maile66 (talk) 00:34, 19 September 2012 (UTC))

Good to go with article, image, and all hooks except Alt 5. Maile66 (talk) 00:34, 19 September 2012 (UTC)