Template:Did you know nominations/Island

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 12:07, 4 August 2024 (UTC)

Island

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• ... that islands are home to 50% of land species at risk of extinction?

• Source: [1] page 2045

• ALT1: ... that animals can colonize islands by riding tropical cyclones? Source: [2]
• ALT2: ... that Polynesian navigators discovered new islands without the use of navigational instruments? Source: [3]
• Reviewed: [[]]

Improved to Good Article status by ForksForks (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has less than 5 past nominations.

ForksForks (talk) 14:19, 14 July 2024 (UTC).

• As a Good level article, this automatically passes several of the criteria, such as length and very obviously using in-line referencing properly and all of that. The nomination was passed yesterday, making this new enough. All three hooks are good and their refs check out for the info and for in-line usage in the article for the information. I'm more partial to the first two than the third one, personally, as the most interesting. No QPQ needs to be done as this is your first nomination. Looks good to go! Silverseren^C 21:52, 15 July 2024 (UTC)
  • @Silver seren: per the DYK criteria, a GA pass is not sufficient for DYK purposes – the DYK reviewer has to re-verify that the article meets DYK criteria, even on the same points. A bit cumbersome, unfortunately, but would you mind taking a look for me? (Also, ALT1 fucking rules. Animals can ride tropical cyclones???) theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 10:22, 31 July 2024 (UTC)
    • Apologies for my lack of clarity in my response above, theleekycauldron. I did check for those anyways, it's just that length was very apparent and I looked through for in-line referencing, copyvio, and the rest anyways. I was just making a generalized statement about it being a Good article. I did still check those criteria. So, still Silverseren^C 21:05, 31 July 2024 (UTC)
      • I don't know if this kind of comment matters, but I would be happy to use ALT1 if people prefer it. No preference from me. Someone suggested "....that an island is land" for an alt as well, which is pretty funny to me. ForksForks (talk) 13:11, 1 August 2024 (UTC)