Template:Did you know nominations/United States v. 422 Casks of Wine

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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 11:07, 31 March 2019 (UTC)

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• ... that the United States once sued 422 casks of wine, and the wine won? Source: Cornell Univeristy

• Reviewed: 2018 World Snooker Championship
• Comment: For April Fools Day

Created by The C of E (talk). Self-nominated at 10:31, 11 January 2019 (UTC).

• C of E, I don't want to throw cold water, but the amusement of in rem captions is beginning to wear thin. There are literally hundreds of thousands of these cases -- see In_rem_jurisdiction#Examples -- and several have been DYKs over the years. EEng 23:30, 11 January 2019 (UTC)
  • So? There's no limit. The C of E God Save the Queen! (talk) 08:17, 12 January 2019 (UTC)
    • Personally, I prefer the variation ALT1: ... that the United States once sued 422 casks of wine and lost? buidhe (formerly Catrìona) 08:43, 12 January 2019 (UTC)
      • That's fine with me @Buidhe:. The C of E God Save the Queen! (talk) 08:47, 12 January 2019 (UTC)

        How about: ALT2: ... that the United States once lost a Supreme Court case against 422 casks of wine? Regards SoWhy 17:54, 12 January 2019 (UTC)

• While I kind of like the hook, didn't we already have a similar hook on DYK on April Fool's last year? Narutolovehinata5 ^tccsdnew 13:21, 25 January 2019 (UTC)
  • @Narutolovehinata5: Yes we did (I did that one last time), and this is just continuing the tradition. The C of E God Save the Queen! (talk) 22:18, 25 January 2019 (UTC)
• New enough, long enough and no copyvio or other policy violations detected. Hook is interesting and cited. Two of the three references are primary sources. The third appears to be seondary, but I have no access, AGF on that one. SpinningSpark 22:44, 7 February 2019 (UTC)
  • Thank you, I'm just striking ALT2 to avoid confusion so we can continue with the traditional format for these hooks on AFD. The C of E God Save the Queen! (talk) 10:06, 20 February 2019 (UTC)
• Suggesting ALT3: … that 422 casks of wine once defeated the United States? — JFG ^talk 12:52, 20 February 2019 (UTC)

I'm not sure of the status of this discussion, but "and the wine won" is funny so I'm in favour of the original hook. Gatoclass (talk) 04:13, 20 March 2019 (UTC)