Template:Did you know nominations/The Boat Race 1860

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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 13:46, 7 December 2014 (UTC)

The Boat Race 1860[edit]

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... that Cambridge won the 1860 University Boat Race with a time of 26 minutes 5 seconds, the slowest winning time in the history of the race?

ALT1:... that the 1860 University Boat Race was the first time in the history of the event that the race had to be restarted?
Reviewed: Not a self-nomination.

Improved to Good Article status by The Rambling Man (talk). Nominated by Bloom6132 (talk) at 10:21, 11 November 2014 (UTC).

Article is long enough, was promoted to GA before the nomination, and is in good shape overall, as I'd expect of a recently promoted GA. Both hook facts are adequately supported by reliable sources, and spot-checks of a few of the other notes revealed no concerning issues (I wouldn't expect any from TRM anyway). The time in the main hook was on the page after the number in the cite, but I took the liberty of fixing this on TRM's behalf in his absence. Either hook would do for me. Also, it's worth noting that it looks like they're now making non-self-nominators do QPQ reviews as well, but I believe this is grandfathered in because the nomination started before the rules change. All in all, this appears to be good to go. Giants2008 (Talk) 23:19, 6 December 2014 (UTC)