Template:Did you know nominations/Traditions of Pomona College
- 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) 21:29, 24 September 2020 (UTC)
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Traditions of Pomona College
Pomona College
The Smith Clock Tower at Pomona College
- ... that per campus tradition, Pomona College's official favorite number is 47? Source: [1][2]
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... that per campus tradition, Pomona College alumni have tried to spread the number 47 as widely as possible, including inserting it into episodes of Star Trek?Source: [3][4] - ALT2:... that per campus tradition, Pomona College reveres the number 47 so much that the bell in its clock tower (pictured) has chimed on the 47th minute of the hour? Source: [5]
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- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Mutual Reserve Building
- Comment: It was a little hard to find where in these DYKs to link to the traditions page; let me know if you have suggestions about how it might be done better. Please also lmk which of the alts you find most compelling. The clock tower image is suggested if ALT2 is used, and the other image if ALT0/ALT1 is used. One note: for ALT2, per here, I'm not 100% sure that it still chimes at the 47th minute, thus the "has chimed" to be safe.
Moved to mainspace by Sdkb (talk). Self-nominated at 22:45, 5 September 2020 (UTC).
- Comment: This would be the fourth time recently an article about or relating to Pomona College has been featured in the Did you know section. The appeal is extremely limited and the repeated success of getting it through seems to be the result of the non-controversial nature of the hooks. I strongly recommend not posting this or any further ones related to Pomona College for a number of months. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.35.176.194 (talk)
- I've been working on a bunch of Pomona articles lately, thus the noms. None are time-sensitive, so I'm fine with this being scheduled for further out to create some space. April 7 would be a great date for this one, since Pomona has a 4/7 day celebration every year on that date. {{u|Sdkb}} talk 22:32, 7 September 2020 (UTC)
This article is new enough and long enough. The hook facts for ALT0 and ALT2 are cited inline, the article is neutral and I detected no copyright issues. The clocktower image is appropriately licensed, but the other image should not be used as it does not appear in the article. A QPQ has been done. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 05:33, 9 September 2020 (UTC)
- @Cwmhiraeth: Thanks for the review! Do you have any thoughts about whether alt0/1/2 would be most interesting? Did you cross out alt1 because it was less interesting or is there some other problem with it? {{u|Sdkb}} talk 08:45, 9 September 2020 (UTC)
- @Sdkb: I was leaving the choice of hook to the promoter. I struck ALT1 because it implied that Pomona College alumni were in general promoting the number, whereas the article suggests that the Star Trek inclusion was an individual initiative by Joe Menosky. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 09:11, 9 September 2020 (UTC)
- Comment: This would be the fourth time recently an article about or relating to Pomona College has been featured in the Did you know section. The appeal is extremely limited and the repeated success of getting it through seems to be the result of the non-controversial nature of the hooks. I strongly recommend not posting this or any further ones related to Pomona College for a number of months. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.35.176.194 (talk)
