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The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that Forbes named German chancellor Angela Merkel the world's most powerful woman fourteen times?

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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 Vaticidalprophet (talk) 15:48, 25 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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... that former German chancellor Angela Merkel has received 20 honorary degrees? Source: [1]
- ALT1: ... that Forbes named former German chancellor Angela Merkel the world's most powerful woman a total of 14 times? Source: "At No. 1, for the fourth consecutive year, is German Chancellor Angela Merkel." (2009), "German Chancellor Angela Merkel claimed the No. 1 spot for the tenth year in a row..." (2020)
- Reviewed: Not applicable (first nom)
- Comment: This is my first DYK nomination and I did my best to follow the instructions. Please do let me know if I've done anything correctly.

5x expanded by Hey man im josh (talk) and Actualcpscm (talk). Nominated by Hey man im josh (talk) at 17:10, 24 August 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/List of awards and honours received by Angela Merkel; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.[reply]

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: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: None required.

Overall: @Hey man im josh: Both hooks look pretty interesting, although the source you provided for ALT1 does not mention Forbes explicitly, so that might be a slight issue. I confirm QPQ is not needed in this case. I've seen that you and Actualcpscm improved the article a lot in the last two days, but I'm a bit confused about the 5x expansion criteria: according to the revision history, the count went from just over 25,500 bytes (two days ago) to almost 64,000 bytes (currently)... Did you refer to the prose size, or to the entire page? Oltrepier (talk) 20:20, 24 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for reviewing my nomination Oltrepier. I used prose. The DYK check tool assessed that the prose was expanded by at least 5x. Hey man im josh (talk) 20:42, 24 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, DYK uses prose size, which means that things such as tables are not counted. Prior to expansion, the article contained a single 99-character line of prose. The prose size is now 1662 characters, so the five times expansion criterion has been fulfilled. MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 20:56, 24 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Oltrepier: I went looking for a better source for the ALT1 hook and discovered that Merkel had actually been named the world's most powerful woman 14 times, not 13. I've added two sources and updated the ALT1 hook to reflect this. Hey man im josh (talk) 21:50, 24 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Hey man im josh and Mandarax: Perfect, thank you so much for clarifying it! Well done on improving sources for ALT1, too. Both hooks should be good to go now. Oltrepier (talk) 09:14, 25 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]