Template:Did you know nominations/Climate change in Puerto Rico

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The result was: withdrawn by nominator, closed by Sojourner in the earth (talk) 16:09, 10 July 2023 (UTC)

Climate change in Puerto Rico

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• ... that climate change in Puerto Rico is damaging coral reefs? Source: will add source if reviewer likes hook
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Khalwa (school)
  • Comment: Nominated so as not to miss deadline but hoping one of the authors will take over as nominator because I don’t enjoy doing QPQ

5x expanded by Hahaohmyhsin (talk) and ClimateTG (talk). Nominated by Chidgk1 (talk) at 14:36, 24 May 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Climate change in Puerto Rico; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.

• Comment - hook is interesting, just needs a source. Bneu2013 (talk) 18:07, 22 June 2023 (UTC)
  • Update - sorry for the delay. Looks good. Bneu2013 (talk) 10:58, 28 June 2023 (UTC)

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: @Chidgk1: Bneu2013 (talk) 11:10, 28 June 2023 (UTC)

Articles written for student assignments often turn out to be problematic, so I checked this out and immediately found a major problem in the first paragraph. Before the rewrite, this passage read:

The United States Environmental Protection Agency reports: "Puerto Rico's climate is changing. The Commonwealth has warmed by more than one degree (F) since the mid 20th century, and the surrounding waters have warmed by nearly two degrees since 1901. The sea is rising about an inch every 15 years, and heavy rainstorms are becoming more severe. In the coming decades, rising temperatures are likely to increase storm damages, significantly harm coral reefs, and increase the frequency of unpleasantly hot days". A 2019 report stated that Puerto Rico "is affected by climate change more than anywhere else in the world".

Now it reads as follows:

A wide range of effects of climate change are currently being felt in Puerto Rico. According to the US Environmental Protection Agency, it is more affected by climate change than any other country in the world.

The wrong footnote has been attached to the part about Puerto Rico being more affected than any other country, and the claim is now falsely attributed to the EPA. These mistakes are duplicated in the article body, where the claim has already been tagged as failing verification. Given that the very first paragraph I checked contained a major error, I think this article needs thoroughly going over before it can be featured on the main page. I'll try to spend some time on this tonight (and fix the above error if no-one else gets to it first); just commenting here so the nom doesn't get promoted in the meantime. Sojourner in the earth (talk) 11:38, 4 July 2023 (UTC)

@Chidgk1 and Bneu2013: I started working on this article but quickly came across some serious close paraphrasing problems (see the talk page). I'm not inclined to spend any more time on this since the article may end up being reverted back to its pre-expansion state. Together with the factual errors, the various inline tags, and the need of heavy copyediting, there's unfortunately no chance that this article will be eligible for DYK any time soon. Sojourner in the earth (talk) 15:36, 5 July 2023 (UTC)

Hello @Bneu2013 and Sojourner in the earth: Sorry I have not been able to do anything on this for a while as I am travelling and it is very difficult to edit just with a mobile phone and intermittent internet. Today and on various days over the next couple of weeks I have a proper keyboard and stable internet. Is there any chance you could allow me some time to make serious improvements to this article? Chidgk1 (talk) 07:24, 6 July 2023 (UTC)

For myself I've no objection, but the purpose of DYK is to highlight new content, and I believe there's a general opinion that noms should be rejected if they aren't likely to be eligible within a reasonable timeframe. I'll ask at WT:DYK for further input. Sojourner in the earth (talk) 09:15, 6 July 2023 (UTC)

An extension of a few weeks seems very generous at best and seems unfair to other articles. I'd recommend closing the nomination unfortunately if the issues can't be addressed within the next few days. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 12:40, 8 July 2023 (UTC)

OK I hope to have some time on Monday so if it is not good enough by Tuesday feel free to close. Chidgk1 (talk) 15:33, 8 July 2023 (UTC)

I have made a few edits - over to you guys to decide whether they are enough or not - I will not complain whatever you decide Chidgk1 (talk) 09:14, 10 July 2023 (UTC)

I'm closing this as withdrawn per Chidgk1's comment here. Sojourner in the earth (talk) 16:09, 10 July 2023 (UTC)

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