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 Yoninah (talk) 14:11, 28 October 2019 (UTC)

• ... that the Cebu City Council sits at the Cebu City Hall and convenes its session in the Dona Eva Macaraeg-Macapagal Session Hall of the Cebu City Legislative Building (CCLB)? Source: "GMA inaugurates legislative building". The Freeman. 2008-07-25. Retrieved 2019-08-14.

• ALT1:... that Cebu City's two councilor districts elects eight councilors to the Cebu City Council? Source: Congress of the Philippines (6 November 1987). "Republic Act No. 6636 - An Act resetting the local elections from November 9, 1987 to January 18, 1988, amending for this purpose Executive Order numbered two hundred and seventy". The Official Gazette of the Republic of the Philippines. Retrieved 2019-08-19.
• ALT2:... that the first ordinance passed by the Cebu City Council is the regulation of establishment and maintenance of cockpits in the City of Cebu becoming the first cockpit ordinance in the Philippines? Source: Clarence Paul Oaminal (2016-10-05). "The Dela Victoria's cockpit ordinance". The Freeman. Retrieved 2019-08-28.
• ALT3:... that the Cebu City Council was left with 3 members on May 17, 2016 after 12 of its members together with the Mayor and Vice Mayor were suspended and 2 of its members were appointed as Acting Mayor and Acting Vice Mayor? Source: "Suspension order served vs Cebu mayor, 13 others". ABS-CBN News. 2016-05-17. Retrieved 2019-08-18.
• ALT4:... that the Cebu City Council convenes its session in the Dona Eva Macaraeg-Macapagal Session Hall named after Eva Macaraeg-Macapagal, the mother of former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo? Source: "PGMA inaugurates Cebu City's new session hall named after her late mother Doña Eva". Philippine Information Agency. 2008-07-24. Retrieved 2019-08-24.

Created by Emperork (talk). Self-nominated at 13:15, 24 August 2019 (UTC).

• Emperork, welcome back to DYK! As best I can tell, this is your third submission, the last two having been in late 2006, nearly thirteen years ago. Things have changed a bit since you were last here.

Nominations need to be made within seven days of an article's creation or fivefold expansion. You created the article back on July 3, over seven weeks ago, so it can't count as a new creation. Seven days takes us back to August 17; it was 1793 prose characters immediately prior to the expansion that started that day, so a 5x expansion would require 8965 prose characters; the article is currently 5966 prose characters, or 2999 short of a 5x expansion.

In addition, neither of the hooks you have proposed are sufficiently interesting per the DYK rules, which require a definite fact that is mentioned in the article and interesting to a broad audience.

Since it has been so long since you participated here at DYK, I think we can allow some leniency: prior to some additions on August 14, ten days before the nomination, the article was 1614 prose characters, which would require an expansion to 8070 prose characters only, or an additional 2104 (rather than 2999). I don't know whether that would be feasible, however.

Another change since your last DYK submission is that we now accept newly approved Good Articles, and I see that you've just nominated the article to be one. Should this nomination not succeed, but your GA nomination ultimately does, just nominate the new GA here within seven days; there are no expansion requirements for GAs.

Please let me know if you have any questions, and how you would like to proceed. Thanks again for submitting to DYK. BlueMoonset (talk) 15:35, 24 August 2019 (UTC)

Hi! Thanks for the insight. I am currently expanding the article. Can I also change the hooks or maybe add in this nomination? Emperork (talk) 22:25, 30 August 2019 (UTC)

The article has now 9,672 characters. Hope you can recheck. Thanks! Emperork (talk) 01:15, 31 August 2019 (UTC)

• I would also have to note that some paragraphs don't have a reference, such as in the membership section. As a Filipino myself, I don't think any of the hooks would appeal to those unfamiliar with Philippine politics, so a new hook is likely needed. I tried thinking of some but none come to mind right now; I'll comment back if I think of anything. Narutolovehinata5 ^tccsdnew 02:22, 5 September 2019 (UTC)

• ALT2, with some tweaking, might be interesting, as cock fighting is illegal in many parts of the world, so it's not something that councils in the UK, US or Australia, for example, would pass ordinances about. RebeccaGreen (talk)

• ALT2a: ... that a 1945 ordinance by the Cebu City Council was the first such legislation to regulate cockfighting venues in the Philippines?

There's probably a better wording to use than "cockfighting venues" (I'd use cockpits, but that language might not be clear to those unfamiliar with cockfighting). I'd also strongly recommend that this go through WP:GOCE/R too as I think the article's wording still needs a lot of work. Any thoughts on these @RebeccaGreen:? Narutolovehinata5 ^tccsdnew 21:53, 10 September 2019 (UTC)

@Emperork: Narutolovehinata5 ^tccsdnew 21:54, 10 September 2019 (UTC)

The alternative ALT2 wording seems fine with me. - Emperork (talk) 14:00, 11 September 2019 (UTC)

Thanks. Pinging RebeccaGreen to give this another look. Narutolovehinata5 ^tccsdnew 04:17, 13 September 2019 (UTC)

Narutolovehinata5, Emperork: ALT2a wording seems fine to me. I agree that the meaning of "cockpits" in this context would not be clear to many readers. As this article hasn't been reviewed apart from consideration of its newness and length, it needs a full review, but if a WP:GOCE/R hasn't been requested yet, I guess that should happen first. RebeccaGreen (talk) 12:13, 13 September 2019 (UTC)

Already submitted this to WP:GOCE/R for review. - Emperork (talk) 13:20, 13 September 2019 (UTC)

The GOCER is happening now, so we should be able to move into reviewing this very soon! RebeccaGreen (talk) 16:19, 6 October 2019 (UTC)

Emperork, as the GOCER has been completed, I have started reviewing this article. I notice some information that requires sources. Some sections are well sourced, and some still need sources.

• In the first para of Membership, I don't see a source for when the elections are held, "on the first Monday of May every third year".
• In the 2019-2022 membership table, please add citations to the sources which give the councilors names and parties (these exist in the article, but aren't cited here yet). Do you have sources for which number their term is? and for their barangay of registration? I didn't see that information in the sources which name the councilors.

I am still reading the article, so I will let you know if I see other sourcing issues - I think these are the main ones. Regards, RebeccaGreen (talk) 14:03, 9 October 2019 (UTC)

Sure. Working on it now RebeccaGreen. — Emperork (talk) 10:23, 10 October 2019 (UTC)

Done citing sources on first and second points except for the barangay of registration. I actually lifted that info from the voters' registration roll. It's actually a document not available in public but are made available by the Commission on Elections upon request or during election period. Any idea how we can cite it as sources? — Emperork (talk) 11:03, 10 October 2019 (UTC)

A source doesn't need to be online. You can cite it as you would a hardcopy book, eg by the name of the source - from [1], it looks like they're called 'Book of Registered Voters', probably specified by the location covered - with the date and the publisher (Republic of the Philippines Commission On Elections, I presume). Enough information that will enable a reader to locate the same source themselves (if they went through the same process you did to request it). RebeccaGreen (talk) 11:27, 10 October 2019 (UTC)

OK will work on this one. Will have to pull up those PDF files I've got and put the citation on it. Thanks so much for the help! — Emperork (talk) 12:39, 10 October 2019 (UTC)

• @Emperork: How are things going along? Have the issues raised above been addressed? Narutolovehinata5 ^tccsdnew 04:03, 19 October 2019 (UTC)

Policy compliance:

• Adequate sourcing:
• Neutral:
• Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Overall: Per BlueMoonset's comment above, the newness and length of the article are based on a five-fold expansion from 1614 prose characters on August 14, ten days before the nomination. The article now has 8563 characters, which is above the required 8070 characters.

I have struck the hooks which have already been considered uninteresting. ALT2 has been replaced by ALT2a, which is sourced and of general interest. Striking ALT3 as the source only says that the mayor, vice-mayor and 12 councilors were suspended, and 2 remaining councilors were appointed acting mayor and acting vice-mayor. It doesn't say anything about 3 other remaining councilors. ALT4 is not interesting to a broad audience, I don't think.
A QPQ is not needed, as the nominator has only one DYK credit.

The article has sufficient sourcing except in the table showing 2019-2022 membership, which still has no sourcing for the 'Barangay of registration' column, nor for the number of terms councilors have served and their start and end dates. Emperork, if this information can't easily be sourced, I suggest deleting it now and replacing it when sourcing is available (it will remain in the article's history, so you would be able to copy and paste it later on). I will be able to complete this review when this issue is resolved. RebeccaGreen (talk) 13:15, 19 October 2019 (UTC)

Hi. I was able to retrieve the voting roll just today but to expedite the process, yes I'll take down that column first for the meantime and put it back on the source is placed. — Emperork (talk) 12:49, 23 October 2019 (UTC)

ALT2a approved. Thanks, Emperork! RebeccaGreen (talk) 17:16, 23 October 2019 (UTC)