Template:Did you know nominations/Roar-o-Saurus

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The result was: promoted by Bruxton talk 22:48, 9 January 2024 (UTC)

Roar-o-Saurus

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• ... that despite being only 40 feet (12 m) tall, Roar-o-Saurus was described as one of the "most insane" new roller coasters of 2014 by CNN? Source: https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/best-usa-new-roller-coasters/index.html
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5x expanded by ReedyTurnip (talk). Self-nominated at 03:56, 9 January 2024 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Roar-o-Saurus; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: None required.

Overall: While the hook is in decent shape, I think it would be stronger if it were in active voice. I propose this as an alternative:

• ALT1: ... that despite being only 40 feet (12 m) tall, CNN described Roar-o-Saurus as one of the "most insane" new roller coasters of 2014? Source: https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/best-usa-new-roller-coasters/index.html
  CJ-Moki (talk) 04:39, 9 January 2024 (UTC)

  Thank you for the review, I agree that the alternate hook is better. ReedyTurnip (talk) 13:18, 9 January 2024 (UTC)

  I believe ALT1 is good to go. CJ-Moki (talk) 18:02, 9 January 2024 (UTC)