Talk:Bob Fernandez

Did you know nomination

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 SL93 talk 23:58, 14 January 2025 (UTC)

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• ... that Bob Fernandez, one of the last known American survivors of the attack on Pearl Harbor, was just 17 years old and serving as a mess cook in the United States Navy when the bombing happened?

• Source: https://edition.cnn.com/2024/12/14/us/bob-fernandez-pearl-harbor-death/index.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/14/us/bob-fernandez-dead-pearl-harbor.html (archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20241215060047/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/14/us/bob-fernandez-dead-pearl-harbor.html )

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Created by Jolielover (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

jolielover♥talk 14:18, 17 December 2024 (UTC).

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: Done.

Overall: @Jolielover:, this one is currently circa 300 characters below the 1500 character requirement and needs expansion before it meets WP:DYKCRIT. I am also not entirely sure the hook is sufficiently interesting. 17 is young these days, but back then this was a common military age. I am simply not sure the subjects age or occupation is sufficiently interesting to meet this criteria. Overall you did well for your first nomination, but I'd want to see an expansion and also someone provide a second opinion before I passed this. — MaxnaCarta  ( 💬 • 📝 ) 01:36, 18 December 2024 (UTC)

• @MaxnaCarta:, when I submitted this it was above the character limit but someone reverted my edit (mistakenly probably), I have added the information back. Personally, I think it's interesting given that one of the few survivors of the attack was only 17 but I understand the criticism. jolielover♥talk 15:19, 18 December 2024 (UTC)

No worries @Jolielover:, also, my comments are not so much a critisicm as much as a concern the hook is not interesting enough. However, as "interesting" is subjective and you have passed the objective criteria, I am going to pass this and allow reviewing admins to decide whether to proceed to prep queue. NB: QPQ not required. — MaxnaCarta  ( 💬 • 📝 ) 22:12, 18 December 2024 (UTC)

• Jolielover I think that MaxnaCarta has a good point about this not being all that interesting. SL93 (talk) 21:47, 10 January 2025 (UTC)
  • SL93 I think it's pretty interesting to be 17 and have lived through Pearl Harbour. It's not the first hook of the such to be on the main page, see Chappell Roan's hook, which says she signed onto Atlantic Records at 17 (in my opinion, far more boring). jolielover♥talk 15:49, 14 January 2025 (UTC)
    • I will promote this. SL93 (talk) 23:58, 14 January 2025 (UTC)