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 AirshipJungleman29 talk 18:15, 3 January 2025 (UTC)

• ... that Richard Stratton's diplomatic career took him from the Pitcairn Islands to "South America to Japan, and from Southern Africa to the foothills of the Himalayas"?

• ALT1: ... that Richard Stratton's diplomatic career took him "from South America to Japan, and from Southern Africa to the foothills of the Himalayas"? Source: same
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Always Happy to Explode & Template:Did you know nominations/Yvonne Francis-Gibson
• Comment: To do QPQ within 24 hours. ALT1 is just the ALT0 hook without the Pitcairn Islands, which I thought might be an interesting addition. This would be just the fourth DYK bio ever relating to Pitcairn (which is understandable, since they only have a population of 30!)

BeanieFan11 (talk) 23:44, 13 December 2024 (UTC).

• New enough, long enough and within policy. The hooks are fine and supported by inline citation from reliable sources, but since they contain quotes these should be attributed in the hooks as well, according to WP:DYKHOOKCITE. Only one QPQ done, but I guess backlog-mode was not enabled then? Otherwise we would need another QPQ as well. Yakikaki (talk) 15:44, 15 December 2024 (UTC)
  • @Yakikaki: Thanks for the review. We're still in backlog mode, thus I needed to complete two QPQs – I just added the second in Template:Did you know nominations/Yvonne Francis-Gibson. BeanieFan11 (talk) 23:03, 15 December 2024 (UTC)

• Thanks! The only thing that remains is to re-phrase the hook suggestions, then. Yakikaki (talk) 16:14, 18 December 2024 (UTC)

• @Yakikaki: Sorry for taking so long to respond. Is there a requirement that quotes need to be attributed in the hook? All I read is that if the source is not willing to say the fact in its own voice, the hook should attribute back to the original source as well. – but I don't think that'd apply, as The Times had that wording in their own voice. But anyway, if it is required, would the modification be something like ALT2: ... that Richard Stratton's diplomatic career, according to The Times, took him "from South America to Japan, and from Southern Africa to the foothills of the Himalayas"? That does seem kind of less "hook-y," though. BeanieFan11 (talk) 01:37, 28 December 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for getting back about this. On closer look and second though I realise you are probably – and hopefully – right. I would also prefer the original hook to be honest, but thanks for providing an ALT in any case. Yakikaki (talk) 08:51, 29 December 2024 (UTC)