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The following discussion 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 PFHLai (talk) 09:23, 5 January 2014 (UTC)

LS3/5A

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late-model LS3/5A made by Spendor

  • ... that the BBC's LS3/5A loudspeaker sold an estimated 100,000 pairs over its two-decade-plus existence?

Created by Ohconfucius (talk). Self nominated at 09:25, 3 December 2013 (UTC).

  • Article is well over 15,000 characters (did you misread the DYK criteria? ), new enough. No copyvios found. Hook is not sourced by the text; call me a pedant but the article states that 100,000 copies were produced, not sold. Estimates for that range from 60,000 to 100,000.--Launchballer 09:29, 24 December 2013 (UTC)
  • Haha, I must have missed a zero! ;-) As to the proposed hook, I don't quite know what to do… one source says "some 100,000 pairs were in circulation", which seems to confirm the sales figure. If that is not precise enough, I'd propose using ALT1: ... that a prototype of the LS3/5A was produced by the research department of the BBC within one week of a request [for a miniature studio monitor] being made? -- Ohc ¡digame! 08:29, 27 December 2013 (UTC)
That probably won't be necessary. "In circulation" refers to units that have been sold and units that have been produced. I suggest adapting the original hook to include the phrase "in circulation".--Launchballer 10:23, 27 December 2013 (UTC)
OK, ALT2, then: "

* ... that there are an estimated 100,000 pairs of the BBC's LS3/5A loudspeaker in circulation from its two-decade-plus production period?"

-- Ohc ¡digame! 06:33, 3 January 2014 (UTC)

Good to go.--Launchballer 22:29, 4 January 2014 (UTC)