Template:Did you know nominations/Top Gear France

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: promoted by Allen3 ^talk 13:15, 17 April 2015 (UTC)

Top Gear France

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• ... that the presenters of the new series of Top Gear are all French?

• ALT1:... that filming has begun of the new series of Top Gear?
• ALT2:... that the presenters of the new series of Top Gear play football with cars?

Created by Anameofmyveryown (talk). Self-nominated at 23:27, 6 April 2015 (UTC).

• New enough, long enough, and free of any detectable policy issues (the article is neutral, apparently well referenced, and free of any noticeable copyright issues). Unfortunately, I am not able to speak French, so I am accepting nine of the ten sources in good faith. The hook and two alternates are all short enough and properly cited, although the main hook is indirectly cited; nowhere in the text of the article are all three of the presenters explicitly mentioned as being French, even though the actual references (seem to) support this (with phrases like "à la française" and "made in France"). All of the proposed hooks are interesting, but I think the first choice ("that the presenters of the new series of Top Gear are all French?") is the best, as it plays with anglophone expectations about the original British show Top Gear and its presenters. This appears to be Anameofmyveryown's first DYK nomination (please correct me if I am wrong), so I don't think that QPQ applies in this case. Once again, accepting the French-language sources in good faith, I think that this article is good to go. Nice work! Michael Barera (talk) 01:38, 7 April 2015 (UTC)

• Honesty compels me to point out that I have had four previous DYKs (Forward Poland,Libertas Estonia,Libertas Spain,Political foundation at European level). The last one was Libertas Spain which was DYK on April 27 2009. That date predates the QPQ system which is why a QPQ check draws a blank. However, since I do not cross the 5DYK threshold for Wikipedia:QPQ, it should be OK. Regards, Anameofmyveryown (talk) 02:44, 7 April 2015 (UTC)

• Thanks for the clarification, Anameofmyveryown. Anyway, QPQ does not apply in this case. Michael Barera (talk) 02:54, 7 April 2015 (UTC)