Template:Did you know nominations/Earth structure

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 BlueMoonset (talk) 06:27, 3 May 2014 (UTC)

Earth structure edit

Earthen hut with thatched roof in Toteil, near Kassala, Sudan

  • ... that in 2005 about 1.5 billion people lived in earth structures (example pictured)?

5x expanded by Aymatth2 (talk). Self nominated at 14:17, 29 April 2014 (UTC).

  • This excellent article qualifies for DYK as a five-fold expansion and is new enough and long enough. The hook fact has an inline citation and I was able to verify that the year the source was published was 2005. The image is appropriately licensed and QPQ has been done. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 10:19, 30 April 2014 (UTC)