Template:Did you know nominations/Flags of country subdivisions (Oceania)

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Flags of country subdivisions (Oceania)

  • ... that in French Polynesia, the right to fly an island's flag alongside the French flag was granted in 1985?
  • Comment: Created on July 24, but continuously expanded through today (August 3).

Created by NewYorkActuary (talk). Self-nominated at 23:20, 3 August 2016 (UTC).

  • Symbol delete vote.svg Not sure what is being nominated for DYK here. The link is to a section in an article which has been around a lot longer then 24 July. The article is just a list of images of flags with no real prose content. Not eligible for DYK - should a different article be linked? Bcp67 (talk) 21:11, 4 August 2016 (UTC)
User:Bcp67 My apologies for the error. I meant to link to the recently spun-out article (the link in the hook has now been corrected). It, too, is a gallery-type article, but has more prose in it than did the original article. NewYorkActuary (talk) 21:31, 4 August 2016 (UTC)
Thanks NewYorkActuary - I thought there had to be a mistake as the original linked article was so obviously ineligble but I couldn't work out what it should be! Have struck through my first comment now. Bcp67 (talk) 04:21, 5 August 2016 (UTC)
Symbol question.svg: New, long enough, but does not cite inline sources. I see that the article is sourced to the CIA World Factbook but it would be beneficial to include a direct link to each relevant page of the factbook so readers can easily access the primary source. The hook is nice and sourced. Axem Titanium (talk) 00:31, 21 August 2016 (UTC)
User:Axem Titanium Thanks for taking a look at this. Regarding sourcing, every entry contains a link to the article for the country in question, as well as any spin-out articles that address the administrative subdivisions of the country. Although I am aware that one cannot use Wikipedia as a source, I assume that one can rely on the sourcing that exists in any "main articles" that are being cited. But when I checked those articles today, I found (to my chagrin) that a goodly number of them do not source the relevant information. And so I agree that something more is needed here. But I'm not sure that 31 references, each going to a separate sub-page of the same web site, is the best way to go. Instead, I've modified the introduction's mention of the Factbook so as to direct the reader to the article's External Links section. There, I've added three links. Two of them go to the Factbook's web site -- one of the targets has a drop-down box that brings the reader just one click away from the country of interest; the other link goes to a single listing of the administrative subdivisions of every country in the world (thus requiring only that the reader scroll down to the country of interest). The third link is to the ISO site, which also brings the reader one search-box away from the country of interest. I hope you find this an acceptable alternative. NewYorkActuary (talk) 21:35, 23 August 2016 (UTC)
Hmmm, I'm not certain this would pass muster in a more rigorous review process than DYK. Even if it's 31 references to the same website, it's to the readers' benefit to have very quick access to the relevant webpage. I'm going to Symbol voting keep.svg with the hope that you get around to individual citations eventually. Axem Titanium (talk) 20:01, 26 August 2016 (UTC)
  • Symbol possible vote.svg There are two major issues with this nomination. The first is that the bold link does not go to the article itself, but rather to a subsection of it. That's not allowed at DYK; it has to be the main article. And the other is that the individual sections are not referenced. You can always appeal this on the DYK talk page, but I've never seen a list article that had no individual source citations except for in only one paragraph in the article body, and that seems to run afoul of WP:DYKSG#D2: Template:Tq BlueMoonset (talk) 06:46, 27 August 2016 (UTC)