Template:Did you know nominations/Great Salt Lake whale hoax
- 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 Rjjiii talk 14:02, 5 October 2024 (UTC)
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Great Salt Lake whale hoax
- ... that in 1888, a sensational story claimed that a British scientist, James Wickham, introduced two whales to the Great Salt Lake in an attempt to start a whale oil industry?
Moved to mainspace by RadicalUranium (talk).
Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has less than 5 past nominations.
OhHaiMark (talk) 17:09, 29 August 2024 (UTC).
The hook is interesting and the article is new enough. I'll be checking through the rest of the DYK reqs shortly. ❯❯❯ Mccunicano☕️ 00:49, 8 September 2024 (UTC)
- Article appears to be free from copyvio, and the hook is backed up by a paywalled hook reference that I will AGF. I think the lead of the article could be expanded some before appearing on the Main Page. Once that's done I think it should be good to go! ❯❯❯ Mccunicano☕️ 01:05, 8 September 2024 (UTC)
- I've touched up the article and expanded the lead as suggested. Thanks for the review, and I believe it's now ready for further consideration. RadicalUranium (talk) 23:34, 8 September 2024 (UTC)
Great work, I'll go ahead and approve the article and hook. ❯❯❯ Mccunicano☕️ 04:36, 9 September 2024 (UTC)
- @Mccunicano: I'd make sure to use the updated name of the article, Great Salt Lake whale hoax, as the word "myth" appears in this nomination. Utopes (talk / cont) 07:40, 9 September 2024 (UTC)
