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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 Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:24, 1 June 2017 (UTC)

Typhoon Kelly (1987)

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  • ... that Typhoon Kelly was one of two typhoons to develop during October 1987...? Source:HKO
    • ALT1:... that Typhoon Kelly was the first of two typhoons to develop during October 1987...? Source: HKO
    • ALT2:.... that Typhoon Kelly inflicted 452 landslides in Japan....? Source: From AP article behind paywall "The National Police Agency recorded 452 landslides, 20 destroyed bridges, 194 damaged roadways and damaged railways in 20 prefectures (states) in western Japan."

Created by Yellow Evan (talk). Self-nominated at 05:04, 18 May 2017 (UTC).

  • Neither hook seems particularly hooky. Yoninah (talk) 19:39, 28 May 2017 (UTC)
  • Added an ALT2, but of the three, I'd prefer ALT0. YE Pacific Hurricane 20:11, 28 May 2017 (UTC)
  • Thank you. But if you're going to run a string of "Typhoon X happened in this-and-this month", you're going to get complaints at DYK. Variety is the name of the game. I like ALT2; offline hook ref AGF and cited inline. Rest of review per The C of E. Yoninah (talk) 20:23, 28 May 2017 (UTC)