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Why this page

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In Australia this track received more airplay than the rest of the album put together, so a likely search term and possible article. Andrewa (talk) 00:41, 16 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Background relevance

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@Daniel Case First off, I want to thank you for revisiting this article. It appears that you conducted a noticeable amount of research on 1980s Thatcherite energy policies in the UK. The problem I have is that much of the content here deviates from what should be the main purpose of this article: the actual song. While some background information about the lyrical inspiration can be included here, I question whether it should be the primary focus of this article. If we can find a way to rework this article to focus more on the Sting song, that would be greatly appreciated. Dobbyelf62 (talk) 02:13, 8 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I haven't gotten started on the song section yet ... I have a lot of sources on that.
I may well trim that section down as I continue to expand the article. It's always much easier to write more than you need and cut afterwards than the other way around. Daniel Case (talk) 03:13, 8 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I'm excited to see how this turns out. I could only find the Washington Post article when searching for relevant articles, but perhaps I wasn't looking in the right places... Dobbyelf62 (talk) 03:51, 8 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Did you know nomination

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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 AirshipJungleman29 talk 00:37, 25 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Converted from a redirect by Daniel Case (talk), Dobbyelf62 (talk), and Binksternet (talk). Nominated by Daniel Case (talk) at 22:33, 13 December 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/We Work the Black Seam; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.[reply]

  • Comment: Daniel Case This is not a review, but you're right: as much as your entries look brilliant, promoting this nom so early might prevent us from placing the hook on the date you asked for... There's always the "Special occasion area", though! As a smart alternative option, you could try to improve both the articles about the song and the strike to GA status throughout this month, and then nominate them together for DYK: still, I'd ask @DYK admins: for some advice on whether this would be a good idea or not. Oltrepier (talk) 18:25, 1 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
It wouldn't be the first time, if we went that route ... I wound up doing it with Midnight Sun Mosque when my first DYK nom was held to have been untimely, and that was suggested to me as an alternative route (I wanted it to be my 700th DYK, and ultimately it played out that way). I am not sure about the article on the strike, I certainly couldn't do it alone, but maybe help can be sought at the relevant projects (UK, LABOUR). But we do have just enough of a timeframe.

I, too, would be interested in hearing what other people think. Daniel Case (talk) 18:41, 1 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Marking this as needing a full review. Z1720 (talk) 19:09, 25 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Doing that now RoySmith (talk) 23:35, 27 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • New enough (converted from a redirect on Dec 7, nominated Dec 12)
  • Long enough
  • QPQ performed.
  • No copyvio issues (just lots of false positives from Earwig)
  • All four hook facts verify.
  • All images are appropriately licensed (some are fair use, but that's fine)
  • No other issues noted.
  • Holding this for March 6 seems reasonable to me, but I'll let somebody else make that call.
  • all four hooks approved RoySmith (talk) 23:55, 27 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]