Template:Did you know nominations/Gavrilița Cabinet

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The result was: promoted by Theleekycauldron (talk) 22:37, 24 August 2021 (UTC)

Gavrilița Cabinet

• ... that after appointing Gavrilița Cabinet, Moldova became the second republic in the world where the head of state and the head of government are women? Source: list on Wikipedia, EUobserver
  • ALT1:... that after appointing Gavrilița Cabinet, Moldova has both female head of state and head of government?

• Reviewed: not required yet

Created/expanded by

• Cited: - Risky, see comment
• Interesting:

Overall: The article is new and long enough. Sourcing is OK, sample check from Romanian/Moldovan/whatever has not revealed any obvious plagiarism; the article seems to be balanced. As for the hook, the first version of the hook seems very risky: when you sort the table in Wikipedia by countries, it appears that Finland had a female PM and a female President in 2010-11 (and it is a republic), now so does Estonia, and, since a week or so, Moldova (there's one more thing: what are we going to do with Switzerland/San Marino, where a collective head of state/government is in place?) Therefore, I can either agree on ALT1, as it is cited, or a slightly changed version of ALT0:

ALT0a:... that after appointing Gavrilița Cabinet, Moldova is currently one of only two countries in the world (the other being Estonia) where the non-collective head of state and the head of government are both women? (changes in italics)

That is when it comes to the DYK review, which you basically passed in all but hook choice (remember to start doing DYK reviews, though, because you've now used up all your "free" QPQ credits, this is 5th). I'd note, however, that since the event is recent, I think you could (have) ask(ed) for review at the

• Thank you! For your review and your comment as well. I agree with your ALT suggestion, because, although it was not my intention, the first version of the hook might be misread. Perhaps ALT0a is better. I tried to nominate this fact here (without empathising the feminist aspect, I have no idea how InTheNews project works) - Wikipedia:In_the_news/Candidates#(Closed)_Prime_Minister_of_Moldova, but failed --Andrei (talk) 10:20, 10 August 2021 (UTC)

  Andrew J.Kurbiko, I got you, in that case, I'll shorten the the ALT0a to make it under 200 characters. Confirm (200 characters exactly):

ALT0a-final:... that after appointing Gavrilița Cabinet, Moldova, besides Estonia, is now the only republic in the world where the non-collective head of state and head of government positions are both held by women?

(Comment. Just noticed that NZ has both a female PM and a Gov. General (and Queen Elizabeth II, of course, unless you watch Polish state media and don't read the errata :), so I reverted the version back to republics).

I do encourage to read the

rules for inclusion of deaths on the In the news project. In this particular case, I didn't know that the election was posted, but otherwise it would have probably merited a place there. Szmenderowiecki (talk

) 10:49, 10 August 2021 (UTC)

@Andrew J.Kurbiko:, do you copy? Szmenderowiecki (talk) 20:19, 22 August 2021 (UTC)

Yes, so ALT0a-final looks like the final version. Not sure if any further action is required? --Andrei (talk) 07:19, 23 August 2021 (UTC)

No, that's it, thank you. ALT0-final approved. Have a good day. Szmenderowiecki (talk) 08:13, 23 August 2021 (UTC)

:) --Andrei (talk) 12:19, 24 August 2021 (UTC)