Template:Did you know nominations/Mining industry of Mali

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The result was: promoted by Victuallers (talk) 07:03, 23 August 2015 (UTC)

Mining industry of Mali edit

  • ... that aside from gold and diamonds, the only mining in Mali is of rock salt and semi-precious stones?

Moved to mainspace by Rosiestep (talk), Nvvchar (talk), and Dr. Blofeld (talk). Nominated by Rosiestep (talk) at 17:29, 2 July 2015 (UTC).

  • -Mali - nominated 1 day after created, length of over 2800 characters is adequate, reference citations check, hook source verified and is interesting, no copyvio or plagiarism, 2 pictures in article are Commons copyright free, but none used in DYK nomination. QPQ of Qasim al-Ahmad done.--Doug Coldwell (talk) 19:36, 11 August 2015 (UTC)
  • The article and the source contradict themselves over this; both later state there is limited phosphate mining. Belle (talk) 01:14, 12 August 2015 (UTC)

Text modified in the article to include phosphates. The earlier hook should be changed to

  • ALT1 ... that apart from gold and diamonds, the mining in Mali is also of rock salt, semi-precious stones and phosphates? Nvvchar 16:06, 21 August 2015 (UTC)‎
  • -Mali - nominated 1 day after created, length of over 2800 characters is adequate, reference citations check, hook source with additionally phosphates verified. Hook is interesting, no copyvio or plagiarism, 2 pictures in article are Commons copyright free, but none used in DYK nomination. QPQ of Template:Did you know nominations/Romy Gundermann done.--Doug Coldwell (talk) 19:34, 21 August 2015 (UTC)