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Please use this page for discussions surrounding the creation of a "Did You Know" items for April Fool's day 2012
Areas of work needed to complete the front page are:
- Wikipedia:April Fool's Main Page/Featured Article
- Wikipedia:April Fool's Main Page/Today's Featured Picture
- Wikipedia:April Fool's Main Page/On This Day
- Wikipedia:April Fool's Main Page/In The News
- Wikipedia:April Fool's Main Page/Did You Know
Ground rules for this activity along with a list of participants may be found on the Main talk page.
Rules
[edit]April Fools Did You Know items should present some trivia that can be presented in a manner that is possibly unbelievable to the reader. This can be done through words or names that mean two different things, shortened names, unbelievable facts, unrelated facts, etc. The normal written and unwritten rules for Did You Know (DYK) are followed, with these exceptions...
- DYK articles, for the April Fools DYK, are allowed to be taken from the year prior to April Fool's Day, as long as they have not previously been featured on DYK. The normal "5 day" rule for expansion and nominating is not followed. The article must be created between last April 1st and next March 31st, or have been expanded five times the size it was last April 1st by next March 31st. This exception started in 2006 and has been utilized since.
- Proper capitalization, title formatting, and linking standards, may be disregarded only if doing this will give away the joke. This should be done as little as possible. (example from 2009: "... that Caviar, Chardonnay, and Hot Cocoa compete for the love of Ray J? ")
All other Wikipedia rules and guidelines still apply. Pay special attention to Wikipedia's Biographies of living persons guidelines if your hook relates to a living person.
Remember, we are trying to confuse and mislead Wikipedians and visitors, not lie to them. Keep all hooks and articles completely truthful, but outrageous. (examples from 2010: A hook claiming Dmitry Medvedev died in 2005 is ok, saying Mikheil Saakashvili died is not.)
How to review a nomination
[edit]Any editor who was not involved in writing/expanding or nominating an article may review it by checking to see that the article meets all the DYK criteria (long enough, new enough, no serious editorial or content issues) and the hook is cited. Editors may also alter the suggested hook to improve it, suggest new hooks, or even lend a hand and make edits to the article which the hook applies so that the hook is supported and accurate. For a more detailed discussion of the DYK rules and review process see the supplementary guidelines.
If you want to confirm that an article is ready to be placed on a later update, or note that there is an issue with the article or hook, please use the following symbols to point the issues out:
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{{subst:DYKtickAGF}} | Yes | Article is ready for DYK, with a foreign-language or offline hook reference accepted in good faith | |
{{subst:DYK?}} | Query | DYK eligibility requires that an issue be addressed. Notify nominator with {{subst:DYKproblem|Article}}
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{{subst:DYK?no}} | Maybe | DYK eligibility requires additional work. Notify nominator with {{subst:DYKproblem|Article}}
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{{subst:DYKno}} | No | Article is either completely ineligible, or else requires considerable work before becoming eligible |
Please consider using {{subst:DYKproblem|Article|header=yes|sig=yes}} on the nominator's talk page, in case they do not notice that there is an issue.
Nominations
[edit]- Archival comments: promoted hooks can be found in the code for this page. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 02:16, 28 January 2013 (UTC)
Awaiting verification
[edit]Zyzzyx Road
[edit]- ... that the film Zyzzyx Road only made $30 at the box office, despite having a budget of $1.3 million, making it one of the lowest grossing films of all time.
Proposal: This film really intrigues me because of its unique story - a sideeffect of which meaning that it became one of the (if not the) lowest grossing film of all time. [1]. I really think we should try to get this to the main page, maybe even for April Fools.--Coin945 (talk) 09:41, 31 March 2012 (UTC)
- Has been expanded by fewer than 20 prose characters in the last year. MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 02:45, 1 April 2012 (UTC)
- I think the editor misunderstood the purpose of this page and was suggesting that this become a collaboration for next year. Crisco 1492 (talk) 16:37, 1 April 2012 (UTC)
Herbert Grossman
[edit]- ... that Herbert Grossman was horny as a youth, but learned to conduct himself after serving in World War II?
Created by 4meter4 (talk). A wp:iar nom by User:Ohiostandard at 06:48, 31 March 2012 (UTC)
- Comment: I submit this as a wp:iar possibility, in the event good noms happen to be thin on the ground this year. I think it meets other requirements ( I very seldom visit DYK, and don't really understand the process ) but it did get a conventional DYK in May of last year. No worries if regulars here feel it must be rejected for that reason, but really, how often do you get so many double entendres in one sentence? ;)
- Also, if it's too short, what about something like, "... Herbert Grossman was engaged in some very horny practices as a youth, but learned to conduct himself after serving in World War II"?
- I'll probably not look back in to follow this, btw, but I thought it might be useful to all y'all. Apologies in advance if this is in the wrong section or format; the process here seems very convoluted to an outsider. Cheers, – OhioStandard (talk) 06:48, 31 March 2012 (UTC)
Verified hooks
[edit]Peter Orno
[edit]- ... that Ohio State University's mathematical author Peter Orno (abbreviated "P. ORNO") is a pseudonym inspired by erotic publications?
- Reviewed: John R. Isbell ([[2]])
Created by Kiefer.Wolfowitz (talk). Self nom at 13:36, 2 April 2011 (UTC)
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<indent> No slight, but my concerns remain - (i) most of those publications are of low notability; to understand the point, this page doesn't even list his jstor publication, and this is one of the "strong" refs (that is recognized by WoS and assigned a doi number). (ii) I can AGF that Orno from Ohio State University is fictional, but could only confirm the OSU affiliation for two articles (1974 & 1976). Materialscientist (talk) 01:33, 4 April 2011 (UTC)
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Yes, I've spent some time getting acquainted with Peter Orno, as well as cleaning up the article. I have not been able to access the majority of the sources cited, but it is clear to me from what I've seen that the name is a pseudonym, possibly used by more than one Ohio State University mathematician. The Phelps biography of John Rainwater discusses Orno in a group whose other members are all known to be pseudonymous mathematicians, and Phelps' statement that "At least one of his authors had an interest in pornography, hence P. Orno," indicates that the name is made-up. The Pietsch book explicitly names Orno as a "creation" and names the Ohio State math department as the creator. Finally, I found and cited the publications list of Ohio State mathematician Gerald Edgar, wherein Edgar identifies himself as the author of two of Orno's publications. I suggest the following revised hook:
- ALT3: ... that Peter Orno, author of several published papers in mathematics, is a pseudonym that was inspired by "pornography"?
--Orlady (talk) 22:39, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
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I don't think the image of "My First Sex Teacher" belongs in the article. It does not illustrate the article; it's just eye candy. I'm curious to hear the arguments for why it's there. --Orlady (talk) 22:39, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
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- An improved version of the original hook remains the best:
- ... that Ohio State University's mathematical author Peter Orno (abbreviated "P. ORNO") is a pseudonym inspired by erotic publications?
- The phrase "the mathematician" was watered down to "the mathematical author".... Kiefer.Wolfowitz 10:49, 21 March 2012 (UTC)
- Yuck. I have never heard the term "mathematical author" before this. If you asked me what "Ohio State University's mathematical author" referred to, I'd probably guess that it was some sort of computerized system developed at Ohio State. --Orlady (talk) 19:41, 21 March 2012 (UTC)
- An improved version of the original hook remains the best:
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- I personally think the agreed-upon hooks are more for regular DYK. Crisco 1492 (talk) 16:12, 31 March 2012 (UTC)
- Thanks for the quick reply.
- If an administrator has time, perhaps he or she could use this for April Fools (as submitted and approved last April) and move a non-April Fools hook for the 2nd?
- Thanks, Kiefer.Wolfowitz 17:58, 31 March 2012 (UTC)