Template:Did you know nominations/White House COVID-19 outbreak

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 Maile66 (talk) 20:45, 7 October 2020 (UTC)

White House COVID-19 outbreak

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Nomination of Amy Coney Barrett

... that at the announcement of the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the US Supreme Court, the President, his wife, several White House staff, and two senators may have been exposed to COVID-19?

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Okama Report
Comment: This nomination was originally made as a double-nom suggestion at Template:Did you know nominations/2020 United States Supreme Court vacancy

Created by Feoffer (talk). Nominated by Feminist (talk) at 12:26, 3 October 2020 (UTC).

@Kingsif and Yoninah: I can't now approve this as I am the nominator. --evrik ^(talk) 19:26, 6 October 2020 (UTC)

@Evrik: You jumped the gun. I was going to ask feminist to open this nomination. I've re-formatted the template with the correct name and nomination date. We need a hook that's just for this article, and then you can review it. Maybe we should wait for feminist to weigh in? Yoninah (talk) 19:34, 6 October 2020 (UTC)

Hmm. Any hook for this article should focus on a fact that is not widely reported in the press, or at least something that is not widely talked about. The point of DYK is for the hook to be interesting to readers; something they already know would not cut it. Honestly, I don't know what fact from the article readers will be most interested in right now. This is a fast-moving situation, so what is interesting now may not be interesting in a few days, and we may need to constantly monitor DYK compliance. feminist (talk) | free Hong Kong 02:00, 7 October 2020 (UTC)

The fact that more people keep getting sick is interesting. --evrik ^(talk) 03:43, 7 October 2020 (UTC)

Surely Americans already know that? We can't really have a hook that says "... that more people keep getting sick from the White House COVID-19 outbreak?". Maybe we can if we can promote this quickly enough to the main page. But I don't really have many ideas in mind for hooks. feminist (talk) | free Hong Kong 11:01, 7 October 2020 (UTC)

ALT1: ... that a COVID-19 outbreak at the White House infected 36 people, including the President, First Lady, three senators, and a governor? Yoninah (talk) 11:19, 7 October 2020 (UTC)

That works, but we will need to update the "36" figure so that it remains up to date by the time it reaches the main page. Reviewer needed for ALT1. feminist (talk) | free Hong Kong 13:41, 7 October 2020 (UTC)

Approving ALT1, article new enough, long enough, and adequately cited, neutral, interesting hook, image used in the article (better image can be used, if there is one), QPQ has been done, copyvio catches unavoidable words, Good to go! ~~ CAPTAIN MEDUSA^talk 16:57, 7 October 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for the review. The image really has nothing to do with this hook. Yoninah (talk) 20:20, 7 October 2020 (UTC)