Template:Did you know nominations/Diego (tortoise)

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 Cwmhiraeth (talk) 07:20, 13 February 2020 (UTC)

Diego (tortoise)

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Diego, 2009

... that Diego (pictured) "had so much sex he saved his species"? "Meet Diego the tortoise who had so much sex he saved his species" from:Brewis, Harriet (14 January 2020). "Meet Diego the tortoise who had so much sex he saved his species". Evening Standard. Retrieved 2 February 2020.
- ALT1:... that Diego (pictured), a Hood Island tortoise, fathered 900 offspring? "=Diego, the 100-Year-Old Tortoise Who Fathered 900 Babies" from: Machemer, Theresa (14 January 2020). "Diego, the 100-Year-Old Tortoise Who Fathered 900 Babies, Returns to the Wild". Smithsonian Magazine. Retrieved 2 February 2020.
- ALT2:... that Diego (pictured) was renowned for his aggressive, active and vocal sex?"Diego has “a big personality — quite aggressive, active and vocal in his mating habits and so I think he has gotten most of the attention,” says conservation biologist James P. Gibbs" from: Machemer, Theresa (14 January 2020). "Diego, the 100-Year-Old Tortoise Who Fathered 900 Babies, Returns to the Wild". Smithsonian Magazine. Retrieved 2 February 2020.

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Moved to mainspace by Dumelow (talk). Self-nominated at 21:16, 3 February 2020 (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:

Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
Freely licensed: Used in article: Clear at 100px:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Article looks good, long and new enough, no plagiarism. Decent sourcing but I've got some issues with the "1920" statement in the first sentence after lead - most articles seem to mention that he's above 100 which means he was born before 1920. Also, are you sure that the picture is Diego and not just a random male Galapagos tortoise? Juxlos (talk) 16:33, 5 February 2020 (UTC)

Hi Juxlos, I've changed it to read "before 1920". The photo has come from this Flickr album of photos taken in the Galapagos in December 2009. The photographer identifies the three photos I've used in the article as "Diego" and int he same way he labels some as of "Lonesome George" so I am confident. In other photos (eg [1] [2]) he just labels them "Galápagos tortoise" or "Juvenile Galápagos tortoise". Happy for it to run without photo if necessary - Dumelow (talk) 17:28, 5 February 2020 (UTC)

Good to go with image then. Juxlos (talk) 17:35, 5 February 2020 (UTC)