Template:Did you know nominations/French residents overseas' 5th constituency by-election, 2018

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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:30, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

French residents overseas' 5th constituency by-election, 2018[edit]

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... that the French Constitutional Council triggered a by-election in a constituency representing representing French nationals in Spain, Portugal, Andorra, and Monaco? Source: "5^e circonscription (Andorre, Espagne, Monaco, Portugal)" (Le Monde, 5 June 2017); "Le Conseil constitutionnel a notamment estimé que "compte tenu du faible écart de voix entre les candidats arrivés deuxième et troisième au premier tour", le scrutin devait être annulé, selon la décision diffusée sur le site de l'institution." (Europe 1, 2 February 2018)
- ALT1:... that a French by-election was called for expats in Spain, Portugal, Andorra, and Monaco? Source: same as above

Reviewed: Amazon Spheres

Created by Mélencron (talk). Self-nominated at 20:44, 2 February 2018 (UTC).

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook eligibility:

Cited:
Interesting:
Other problems:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Very recent—nice work updating this fast. The ALT1 hook reads more smoothly than the main hook. But both hooks suffer from WP:OVERLINKING: normally, linking well-known countries is not recommended on the English Wikipedia. (To my surprise, some other wikipedias, like the Dutch one, still maintain this rather dubious practice.) If you insist, you could just link Andorra and Monaco, but even those would be distracting from the main subject. A second recommendation is to include expat or a synonym to clarify that the voters are emigrated from France. When these two issues have been fixed, I am okay with both hooks, though preferring the ALT1. Farang Rak Tham (talk) 00:03, 9 February 2018 (UTC)

I've attempted to address both concerns. Mélencron (talk) 00:05, 9 February 2018 (UTC)

Et voilà. Passing.--Farang Rak Tham (talk) 01:46, 9 February 2018 (UTC)