Template:Did you know nominations/Wagner Natural Area

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 Kavyansh.Singh (talk) 08:03, 29 July 2022 (UTC)

Wagner Natural Area

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... that a half-square mile in Alberta contains an estimated 6,000 arthropod species and is one of the most biodiverse areas in the province for its size? Source: https://doi.org/10.4039/entm126169181-1
- Comment: I really like this little fen and I hope more people learn about it. This is my first DYK nomination and I'm excited for this as a learning experience anyway it goes!

Created by Kazamzam (talk). Self-nominated at 21:03, 20 July 2022 (UTC).

Welcome to DYK, Kazamzam! New enough and long enough. You did not need to review another article.

Every paragraph beyond the lead section must end with an inline citation. Three paragraphs are missing this. This is the only textual issue.
Half the hook fact checks out but not the most biodiverse areas in the province for its size claim. I need a reference for this claim.

Ping me here (by typing {{ping|Sammi Brie}} in your reply and signing it) once changes have been made to fix these issues. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 22:46, 21 July 2022 (UTC)

@Kazamzam: All the textual changes have been made, but please point me to the most biodiverse areas in the province for its size claim in a reference. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 04:03, 23 July 2022 (UTC)

@Sammi Brie: I’m on mobile, apologies if the formatting of this is weird. I based this off the fourth reference (Ed Struzik article in the Edmonton Journal from July 2012) which included a quote from the biologist Derek Johnson - “About a sixth of all plant species in Alberta can be found here. I don’t know of any other place where you get as much biological diversity as there is in such a small place as this.” Although there is consensus that WNA is a very biodiverse area, especially for its size, there is not a single, universally accepted metric of biodiversity. On some naive level, I think this qualifies given the shared agreement from previous surveys of the species in WNA, but if that is too imprecise for DYK, I understand and will withdraw the nomination. Thank you very much for your advice in this process. Best, Kazamzam (talk) 13:46, 23 July 2022 (UTC)

@Kazamzam: Thank you. I would accept that as verifying the claim; I just did not know where to look. I was able to verify the quote in ProQuest as well. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 16:02, 23 July 2022 (UTC)