Talk:The Drongs

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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 22:34, 3 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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The Drongs

... that in 1992, climbers Mick Fowler, Andy Nisbet, Jon Lincoln and Craig Jones climbed each of the main stacks of the Drongs (pictured) within seven days? Source: "A team consisting of Mick Fowler, Andy Nisbet, Jon Lincoln and Craig Jones climbed all four in a seven day period in 1992." [1]

Moved to mainspace by Griceylipper (talk). Self-nominated at 11:27, 9 October 2019 (UTC).[reply]

Article is new enough (moved to mainspace Oct 7) and long enough (1507 B of prose excluding the direct quote). QPQ is not required as this is the editor's third nomination. The picture is interesting, clear at low resolution and appropriately licensed under CC-BY-SA 2.0. The hook is interesting and cited inline. I'm not familiar with the website it's cited to but it seems to be a reasonably good source based on this page. No copyvio or close paraphrasing detected. Article is well sourced and verifiable (AGF on offline source), although I think that "along with the Dore Holm and the Muckle Ossa" should be cited, as the source previously used mentions the Dore Holm but not the Muckle Ossa. Thank you for this short but well crafted new article. I'll be glad to approve this DYK once my minor citation nitpick is addressed. :) SpicyMilkBoy (talk) 19:39, 9 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hi User:SpicyMilkBoy, thanks for your review. You raise a valid point regarding the Muckle Ossa - I think I have given it more credit than it is due, so I've removed its mention. I've found a source claiming the fame of the Dore Holm and have referenced this (I apologise for its age - I found a couple more modern sites however they were trying to sell tours, and I didn't think this would be a fair source to use). Hopefully this addresses the issue, let me know what you think and if there's anything else I can do let me know. Griceylipper (talk) 20:42, 9 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Griceylipper The edit looks good, but unfortunately the article's now too short for DYK at 1494B. Can it be expanded just a bit? There seems to be more to say about climbing, for example. SpicyMilkBoy (talk) 21:30, 9 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

SpicyMilkBoy That's weird, I'm getting 1563 bytes using the DYK check script? Regardless, I've added a sentence about the grades to the climbing section, should hopefully cover the difference. Griceylipper (talk) 21:45, 9 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Griceylipper I thought that articles needed 1500B of original content and direct quotes don't count, so I subtracted the quote in the lead from the total - but I'm looking over the rules again and I don't see anything about quotes so I might have been mistaken. In any case, the article is long enough now. Approved :) SpicyMilkBoy (talk) 21:58, 9 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

SpicyMilkBoy No worries, and thanks! Griceylipper (talk) 22:01, 9 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

A fact from The Drongs appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 10 November 2019 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that in a single week in 1992, a four-man team including Mick Fowler and Andy Nisbet climbed all the main stacks of the Drongs?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2019/November. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/The Drongs.

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