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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 BenLinus1214talk 02:53, 18 June 2015 (UTC)

Timeline of ichthyosaur research edit

Artist's restoration of a school of Brachypterygius

Created by Abyssal (talk). Self-nominated at 14:58, 11 May 2015 (UTC).

  • This nomination almost passes, with one minor nitpick. The article is plenty long enough, nominated timely, QPQ done, no copyvios found. The hook is interesting and of suitable length. Two of the three facts in the hook are cited in the article: the pregnant females and the swordfish-like jaws. However, I could not find that the material about the giant Nevada fossils actually says "whale-sized" anywhere. If you can fix this, either by providing a cited reference saying "whale sized" or by modifying the hook, it will be good to go. Oh, and one other thing: if we are going to use the image, we need to insert (pictured) somewhere in the hook. --MelanieN (talk) 23:02, 1 June 2015 (UTC)
Haven't forgotten this, just busy. Abyssal (talk) 18:03, 9 June 2015 (UTC)
Fact added and cited. @MelanieN: Abyssal (talk) 18:11, 17 June 2015 (UTC)

Fact is now in the article and cited. AGF for offline source. I have inserted (example pictured) in the hook and it is good to go. --MelanieN (talk) 18:35, 17 June 2015 (UTC)