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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 Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:30, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

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

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

General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems

Hook eligibility:

  • Cited: Yes
  • Interesting: Yes
  • Other problems: Yes
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)