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A fact from Abdillah (Indonesian politician) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 25 April 2023 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that Abdillah was sworn in as the mayor of Medan, Indonesia, in an abrupt and secretive ceremony?
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 BorgQueen (talk) 12:03, 12 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
... that although he ran against a candidate backed by that party, Abdillah was elected mayor of Medan, Indonesia by PDI-P city councillors? Source: Hadiz, Vedi (2010). Localising Power in Post-Authoritarian Indonesia: A Southeast Asia Perspective. pp. 123–124.
Created by Juxlos (talk). Self-nominated at 14:26, 28 March 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Abdillah (Indonesian politician); consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.[reply]
I'll review this. MyCatIsAChonk (talk) 13:56, 30 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Interesting: - In my opinion, the hook isn't very interesting to a broad audience, and it's hard to understand since his name comes after the "although..." I suggest making an ALT hook related to the corruption scandal; that's much more interesting (in my opinion).
QPQ: Done.
Overall: See above; otherwise, the article is good! MyCatIsAChonk (talk) 14:02, 30 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
@MyCatIsAChonk: I’m not sure about including hooks of that sort due to BLP concerns (also, "mayor arrested for corruption" is twice weekly news in Indonesia). Maybe it’d be better to reword the original hook to make it more digestible? Let me think of something. Juxlos (talk) 03:02, 31 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
or maybe ALT1: ... that Abdillah was sworn in as mayor of Medan, Indonesia in an "abrupt and secretive" ceremony? Juxlos (talk) 03:06, 31 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
@Juxlos: I do see your point, and I think ALT1 is good. Approving ALT1. MyCatIsAChonk (talk) 12:56, 31 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
- In my opinion, the hook isn't very interesting to a broad audience, and it's hard to understand since his name comes after the "although..." I suggest making an ALT hook related to the corruption scandal; that's much more interesting (in my opinion).
See above; otherwise, the article is good! MyCatIsAChonk (talk) 14:02, 30 March 2023 (UTC)
I do see your point, and I think ALT1 is good. Approving ALT1. MyCatIsAChonk (talk) 12:56, 31 March 2023 (UTC)