Template:Did you know nominations/Blue-fronted dancer
- The following 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 Allen3 talk 11:53, 3 April 2015 (UTC)
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Blue-fronted dancer edit
- ... that the blue-fronted dancer damselfly is not always blue as it can change color?
- ALT1:... that the blue-fronted dancer damselfly can change color?
- Reviewed: Autonomous Turkish Cypriot Administration
Created by Cwmhiraeth (talk). Self nominated at 06:32, 22 March 2015 (UTC).
Ok lets see: The article was nominated within a week of creation, has enough characters, and is neutral. There isn’t a source for the “Distribution” section, and one will need to be added. There was one minor instance of close paraphrasing, although I slightly tweaked it since doing so only required a minor edit on my part. You reviewed another DYK nom, and the hook is short enough, interesting, neutral and is interesting. The fact that the blue-fronted dancer can change color does not have a citation next to it, although I assume its covered by the end of paragraph citation. I would suggest dropping the words “as it can change color’ from the hook. This will almost certainly result in more clicks, and will clear up the citation issue.
- Tl;dr: There is one or two things needing citations, and then this article is good to go. Spirit of Eagle (talk) 01:12, 3 April 2015 (UTC)
- Thank you. I have added a citation to the distribution section and changed the punctuation of the description section so that the hook has an inline citation. Here are a couple of alternative hooks, but I think the "changing colour" is the most interesting fact so I favour ALT3. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 05:07, 3 April 2015 (UTC)
- ALT2 ... that the blue-fronted dancer damselfly is not always blue?
- ALT3 ... that individual blue-fronted dancer damselflies can change color?
The citation issues have been cleaned up, and this DYK is good to go. I think that Alt3 is the best hook as well. Spirit of Eagle (talk) 05:17, 3 April 2015 (UTC)