Template:Did you know nominations/Asteroids in fiction

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The result was: promoted by Launchballer talk 07:57, 16 April 2024 (UTC)

Asteroids in fiction

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... that in many works of fiction, the asteroid belt is the remnants of a destroyed planet? Source: See the sources in the "Remnants of a planet" section, e.g. the "asteroids" entry of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Gary Westfahl's Science Fiction Literature through History: An Encyclopedia , p.139
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Obliterate! (video game) and Template:Did you know nominations/AT 2021lwx
- Comment: I'm open to rephrasing the hook to make it more catchy.

Improved to Good Article status by TompaDompa (talk).

Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 20 past nominations.

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TompaDompa (talk) 10:08, 23 March 2024 (UTC).

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Extremely nice and well done article about Asteroids in fiction. I am myself an avid reader of SF, but after reading this article I see myself as a novice. Length and time of creation are ok, the article seems to be well sourced through reference works (AGF assumed on references referring to non reachable pages) hook is cited and interesting, no obvious copyvio detected. QPQ has been done. Good to go! And now I am going to read the other articles of this author... Alex2006 (talk) 15:32, 24 March 2024 (UTC)

Why thank you, that's very kind. You may have noticed Comets in fiction currently on the WP:Main page as the DYK picture hook today. Otherwise, I would consider Mars in fiction my magnum opus, as it were. I would also like to spotlight Venus in fiction, which I can only take partial credit for as it was written in collaboration with Piotrus. TompaDompa (talk) 15:49, 24 March 2024 (UTC)