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Raheem Kassam

Raheem Kassam

• ... that Raheem Kassam launched his UKIP leadership campaign with the slogan "Make UKIP Great Again"?

Created by Sheepy Shoo (talk). Self-nominated at 15:23, 19 October 2016 (UTC).

• General eligibility:

• New enough:
• Long enough: - It's long enough, but it can't be a stub for DYK. Please remove the stub template. You can make it look like an article and not a stub, if you introduce subheadings, and repeat the header (and expand it a little?) in the body of the article. Subheadings could refer to background, previous posts, current posts, recent issues and policy, etc.

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook eligibility:

• Cited: - As the article stands at present, it's ref 7 (not ref 5) which supports the hook. Please put the correct ref next to the "make UKIP great" quote in the article.
• Interesting:

Image eligibility:

• Freely licensed: - The image filepage says that the author has sent the uploader (who is also the creator of the article) the image with the information that it can be used freely as per the licence on that page. However no evidence has been sent to WP yet to back up this information.
• Used in article:
• Clear at 100px:

QPQ: None required.

Overall: Two wikilinks need correction: "The Commentator" (links to Averroes), and "Labour Party" (links to disambig). You don't need yet another Breitbart link in the External Links section; it's already in the refs. Storye book (talk) 10:34, 20 October 2016 (UTC)

Just to comment, this DYK if approved would have to be delayed beyond November 28th when the new UKIP leader is announced per our rules on election campaigns. Cowlibob (talk) 13:17, 20 October 2016 (UTC)

• Thank you for the heads up on that, Cowlibob. I should like to add that on second thoughts I am not comfortable about the several links to the website Breitbart in the article; I would like a second opinion on that before passing this nom.Storye book (talk) 14:45, 20 October 2016 (UTC)

@Storye book: Also I've made several edits to fix some of the contentious parts of this article, so please check this. Have replaced links to Breitbart to more reliable sources. Added a couple of "citation needed" as really date of birth should be cited for biography of a living person and also their religious affliation or lack of. Linking to unreliable sources such as Breitbart is not completely banned they can be used for uncontentious things like him being the editor in chief of the website for example.Cowlibob (talk) 01:52, 21 October 2016 (UTC)

• Thank you, Cowlibob, for the replacement refs; a wise decision. Your edits are fine. There remain several problems: (1) The article now has 1432 characters; less than the 1500 required for DYK. (2) I have checked the England and Wales birth registration list for 1986, and it records no-one by that exact name for that year. It may be that he was born elsewhere, born in another year, or was registered under another name. Is there a source for 1 August 1986? (3) The image filepage says that the author has sent the uploader (who is also the creator of the article) the image with the information that it can be used freely as per the licence on that page. However no evidence has been sent to WP yet to back up this information. Conclusion: Problems 1 and 3 will have to be addressed if this hook and image are both to make DYK. I believe that problem 2 will not prevent a DYK pass, but perhaps a mystery like this, associated with a public figure, is worth either resolving or drawing attention to?Storye book (talk) 11:43, 21 October 2016 (UTC)

• Someone has replaced perfectly reliable Breitbart with completely unreliable, corrupt, mainstream media sources like "The Guardian". Are there still some primitive, pre-Brexit cavepeople from the stone age who still believe these disproven sources reliable and Breitbart not!?! I would like to see them replaced. The reliability of the entire article is severely damaged removing the Breitbart sources. Sheepy Shoo (talk) 23:39, 23 October 2016 (UTC)