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The following discussion 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  — Crisco 1492 (talk) 05:50, 6 July 2012 (UTC)

Lunar Sample Laboratory Facility

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A grey rock with a ruler indicating that it is about 8cm across

Created/expanded by JohnPomeranz (talk). Self nom at 15:23, 27 June 2012 (UTC)

  • References are fairly bare (should have publisher information and writing dates, at the very least). "The facility takes extensive measures to prevent contamination of the lunar samples." is unreferenced. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 15:14, 29 June 2012 (UTC)
  • Thanks for your review. I think I've addressed your comments. Can you confirm? --JohnPomeranz (talk) 18:43, 29 June 2012 (UTC)
  • Hook: Interesting, cited, short enough.
Article: New enough, long enough. Referencing is good. Paraphrasing checked against this looks fine. I've added convert templates and categories.
Summary: Looks good. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:01, 30 June 2012 (UTC)
How about add8ing a picture of the Genesis rock to the hook? Hawkeye7 (talk) 08:56, 30 June 2012 (UTC)
Sure. That's a good idea. --JohnPomeranz (talk) 00:41, 2 July 2012 (UTC)
  • A lot of material here appears to be copied directly from various NASA sites. I think NASA allows that type of use, but even if so, you should follow the procedures for such copying outlined here. You might also tweak the NYT-cited material, as it might be a bit close (and that source is decidedly not PD). Nikkimaria (talk) 02:51, 3 July 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for the constructive criticism. In assembling this quickly I see that I did include too many directly copied excerpts from the cited sources. I've added a template to acknowledge the public domain NASA material and edited portions of the article to reduce my reliance on these materials (and the twice-cited and copyrighted NY Times piece). In the process, I've also made a couple of substantive changes that I think improve the article. Please confirm that I have addressed your concerns. JohnPomeranz (talk) 18:46, 5 July 2012 (UTC)
Much better, thank you. Nikkimaria (talk) 04:20, 6 July 2012 (UTC)