Template:Did you know nominations/2012 Yahoo! Voice hack

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2012 Yahoo! Voice hack

Yahoo! Voice logo

Created/expanded by Dipankan001 (talk). Nominated by Vibhijain (talk) at 09:25, 29 July 2012 (UTC)

What's a lac? The logo can't be used for a DYK. Secretlondon (talk) 15:39, 29 July 2012 (UTC)
Sorry, it was a typo. Fixed. Dipankan (Have a chat?) 15:44, 29 July 2012 (UTC)
Symbol question.svg I'm interested in the Indian flavour of using lakh as a unit of measurement. Indian English hooks on the front page are cool, we just need to link it to lakh as most readers won't know what it is. The structure needs sorting out slightly - the first para should be a WP:LEDE. tapscape.com reference is missing a link. The CS monitor reference doesn't use lakh? Secretlondon (talk) 18:07, 29 July 2012 (UTC)
I don't think we should use lakhs in the hook or the article - the hack did not occur in India as far as I can see, and it did not involve an Indian company. The use of lakhs in the article seems to be purely an artifact of the author using a few Indian sources to write the article - most of the sources do not use Indian terminology at all, and since it isn't an Indian story I don't think the use of specifically Indian terminology is appropriate. It certainly isn't a good idea from the point of view of being comprehensible internationally. Unless those issues are sorted out, I'm afraid I'm going to have to oppose this nomination. Prioryman (talk) 22:06, 29 July 2012 (UTC)
Consider on the above part? Dipankan (Have a chat?) 11:55, 30 July 2012 (UTC)