Template:Did you know nominations/Foam depopulation
- 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 AirshipJungleman29 talk 16:14, 21 March 2024 (UTC)
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Foam depopulation
- ... that foam has been used to kill farm animals en masse in a process called foam depopulation? Source: "One of the preferred methods is to spray water-based firefighting foam over birds as they roam around the ground inside a barn. That foam kills the animals by cutting off their air supply." Bird flu’s grisly question: how to kill millions of poultry. Additional source mentioning the name foam depopulation and that it applies to multiple farm animals: "Water-based foam mass emergency depopulation of poultry was developed in 2006 and conditionally approved by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and American Veterinary Medical Association. Water-based foam causes mechanical hypoxia and can be used for broilers, layers, turkeys, and ducks." Mass Emergency Water-Based Foam Depopulation of Poultry
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- Comment: This is my first time nominating any article for did you know, so please let me know if I've made any mistake or if you have any suggestions for a better hook. Thought people wouldn't expect something simple like foam to be used this way
Created by TB5ivVaO1y55FkAogw1X (talk). Self-nominated at 15:40, 4 March 2024 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Foam depopulation; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.
- Are there any other animals apart from poultry killed by this method? If not, an adjustment of both the article and hook might be necessary. Gatoclass (talk) 08:06, 10 March 2024 (UTC)
- Yes, it has been used for other species: "Aspirated water-based foam (WBF) has been shown to be successful in depopulating poultry and swine [...]" https://academic.oup.com/tas/article/7/1/txad065/7209679 (this study was also looking at applying it to cattle) TB5ivVaO1y55FkAogw1X (talk) 03:56, 12 March 2024 (UTC)
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@TB5ivVaO1y55FkAogw1X: The article has a prose size of 2466 characters. It was moved to article space on March 2, 2024. Each paragraph has at least one source. WP:EARWIG shows no copyright violation. The hook is cited and interesting. QPQ is not required.
The article has a few prose problems
Foam depopulation or foaming is a means of mass killing farm animal by spraying foam
replace "animal" with "animals"It has faced criticized from some groups.
replace "criticized" with "criticism"caused from suffocation
consider replacing "from" with "by"This lead to a backlog in slaughtering
replace "lead" with "led"leading to many locations using foaming or ventilation shutdown to mass kill farm animal outside
replace "animal" with "animals"Others groups
replace "Others" with "Other"Additionally, some researchers have raised environmental concerns of water-based foam's resource usage.
replace "of" with "about"have also give support
replace "give" with "given"United State's National Veterinary Stockpile
replace "State's" with "States"
Concerning the issue raised by Gatoclass: most of the source talk about poultry but it has been applied to swine as well, see [1] and [2]. Gatoclass, do you think this is sufficient or would suggest changes to the article? Phlsph7 (talk) 18:27, 10 March 2024 (UTC)
Phlsph7, if it's been used to kill other animals, such as swine, I think that needs to be explicitly stated in the article. Gatoclass (talk) 21:17, 10 March 2024 (UTC)
- Agreed, it would be a good idea to mention this somewhere. Phlsph7 (talk) 08:37, 11 March 2024 (UTC)
- Made those prose changes as suggested. Sorry for making so many silly mistakes. I swear I did read over this article many times, but alas I cannot read sometimes. Thanks for pointing out those mistakes. I will add some text in a bit about it being used for swine and being researched on others such as cattle as well. TB5ivVaO1y55FkAogw1X (talk) 03:56, 12 March 2024 (UTC)
- I think I have addressed the issues brought up by Phlsph7 and Gatoclass now, hopefully. I also ran the article through multiple grammar checkers as well since I evidently missed quite a bit earlier. Let me know if I missed anything else TB5ivVaO1y55FkAogw1X (talk) 04:41, 12 March 2024 (UTC)