Template:Did you know nominations/Elver Eating World Championships
- 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 Kavyansh.Singh (talk) 08:33, 3 September 2022 (UTC)
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Elver Eating World Championships
A dish of elvers
- ... that no elvers (examples pictured) are eaten during the Elver Eating World Championships? Source: "Organisers said 'instead of using the real thing, which is now a protected species' they were now offering 'a man-made type of sustainable elver, re-named "el-vers".' from: "Spanish fish save UK elver-eating contest". BBC News. 1 May 2017. Retrieved 9 August 2022.
- ALT1: ... that the record time for eating 900 fish (examples pictured) at the National Elver Eating Competition was 43 seconds? Source: "The current elver - guzzling virtuoso is a burly Gloucestershire farmer who ate 900 elvers in 43 seconds" from: Jones, John L. (1975). Crafts from the Countryside. David & Charles. p. 85. ISBN 978-0-7153-7049-0. and "Leslie Cole set the record for the fastest consumption of eels (1 pound of elvers in 43 seconds) at Frampton-on-Severn, Gloucestershire, on April 13, 1971." from: Rose, David (2 February 2010). Sexually, I'm More of a Switzerland: More Personal Ads from the London Review of Books. Simon and Schuster. p. 118. ISBN 978-1-4391-3149-7.
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Peachtree Arcade
Moved to mainspace by Dumelow (talk). Self-nominated at 08:49, 10 August 2022 (UTC).
I'll AGF that this passes WP:GNG (WP:SIGCOV might be an issue?). Date, size, neutrality, QPQ, copyvio are good. ALT1 is good, but main hook is more interesting. BUT there is a minor problem: the hook cites correct reference, but the fact is only mentioned in the article's lead, unreferenced. Per WP:LEAD, lead should not contain new and unreferenced information. The key sentence here is " The competition was revived in 2015 as the Elver Eating World Championships, though elvers are no longer eaten, being replaced by elver-shaped surimi." - please copy it to the main body and append it with a ref. Then this will be GTG. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 09:47, 10 August 2022 (UTC)
- Hi Piotrus, thanks for the review. I've made it clearer in the article that surimi is used, rather than elvers - Dumelow (talk) 10:02, 10 August 2022 (UTC)
And we are GTG. Thank you, --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 10:08, 10 August 2022 (UTC)
- Hi Piotrus, thanks for the review. I've made it clearer in the article that surimi is used, rather than elvers - Dumelow (talk) 10:02, 10 August 2022 (UTC)
