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The result was: rejected by reviewer, closed by BlueMoonset talk 18:14, 5 March 2025 (UTC)
Article has been blanked by nominator; closing as unsuccessful

• ... that Jack Hobbs is "remembered for having a shit"? Source: https://www.comedy.co.uk/features/comedy_chronicles/jack-hobbs/
  • ALT1: ... that Jack Hobbs is remembered for a bout of explosive diarrhoea? Source: see ALT0
  • ALT2: ... that Jack Hobbs once walked home wearing a "smart sky-blue tie, white shirt and nut-brown tweed jacket, with a pair of fluffy little pink legs whirring away underneath"? Source: see ALT0
  • ALT3: ... that "being remembered for having a shit is a far, far, better thing than being remembered for being one"? Source: see ALT0
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Chinese sanctions
  • Comment: I had a lot of fun writing this.

Launchballer 20:54, 30 January 2025 (UTC).

• New enough, source checks out, looks good. Earwig returns 80% chance of copyright violation, but this seems to mainly come from quotes and lists of works. Hook is obviosuly very good; I prefer alt1 ("remembered for a bout of explosive diarrhoea"). IanTEB (talk) 21:40, 2 February 2025 (UTC)
• Why is there only one reference? Articles need multiple reliable sources to show notability. SL93 (talk) 01:10, 26 February 2025 (UTC)

Because the subject died in 1993 and most of his coverage predates the internet. I've had a look through Google Books and added two more, including one McCann almost certainly used.--Launchballer 06:52, 26 February 2025 (UTC)

@Launchballer, IanTEB, and SL93: - I've reviewed this in the Queue, and unfortunately I don't believe this article is compliant with copyright policy. The body of the article is almost entirely reliant on one source (which also flags a "violation suspected" at Earwig) which means it's pretty much inevitably a close paraphrasing of that source; I've tagged it as such. I see the point above about limited sources, but that's always the case for pre-internet topics and doesn't particularly exempt it from those tags. Unless it's shown that I'm mistaken, I don't think there's much future in this nomination, and probably the article needs to be trimmed down significantly to eliminated the copyvios too. Cheers and sorry about this...  — Amakuru (talk) 13:59, 3 March 2025 (UTC)

I strongly suspect that to fix this would require visiting one or more libraries, which I don't have the energy for right now (I've been meaning to visit various libraries for James Marriott (judge) and for a potential article on Wile E. Coyote for months now), and as I would like to reduce the amount on my plate I have BLARed the article. I will come back to this, via GA, when I am able to.--Launchballer 12:27, 4 March 2025 (UTC)