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The result was: promoted by PumpkinSky talk 03:24, 15 November 2011 (UTC)

• ... that Dutch singer Henk Pleket performed for over thirty years in the Dutch-language group De Havenzangers, singing songs of sailors and soccer?

• Comment: Posted on behalf of 66.168.247.159. Alpha_Quadrant ^(talk) 20:08, 25 October 2011 (UTC)

Created/expanded by 207.157.121.92 (talk), 66.168.247.159 (talk). Nominated by Alpha Quadrant (talk) at 20:08, 25 October 2011 (UTC)

• Article is long enough. Article was nominated during eligible period. Article has no images so there are no copyright issues. Article was created/expanded by IP so not worried that no article was reviewed for posting.
  

• Article does not say Henk Pleket performed as part of the group for thirty years. Group was founded in 1977. Group disbanded in 2007. Group while known as De Havenzangers was together for thirty years. My math says "over 30 years" is not accurate. Remove over or change over to around and that aspect would be okay in terms of DYK hook matching article text for that bit. Article says ""Trouw niet voor je veertig bent" and "Rome, we komen" (for the 1990 FIFA World Cup" which doesn't suggest the songs were about soccer, but more the songs were written related to this event. Remove the bit about soccer or clarify the wording to more clearly suggest the content of the song related to soccer and we'd be okay.
  

• Source for football related text say soccer. Dutch sailor is accurate (and quoted, avoiding plagiarism, which was checked).
• source suggest band broke up in 2008, not 2007 as sourced in article.
• All other sourcing in relation to hook looks good. --LauraHale (talk) 05:50, 13 November 2011 (UTC)

I have corrected the date. I have suggested a better wording below. Alpha_Quadrant ^(talk) 16:56, 13 November 2011 (UTC)

• ... that Dutch singer Henk Pleket performed for around thirty years in the Dutch-language group De Havenzangers, singing songs of sailors and the 1990 FIFA World Cup?

Good to go for Alt hook: I'm not a huge fan of it, but appears accurate enough. --LauraHale (talk) 20:02, 13 November 2011 (UTC)