Template:Did you know nominations/Solar storm of August 1972
- 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) 07:39, 13 December 2018 (UTC)
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Solar storm of August 1972 edit
Solar flare, August 1972
- ... that ...the record fastest solar storm of August 1972 accidentally detonated numerous U.S. Navy sea mines in North Vietnam?
- ALT1:... that an intense solar storm in August 1972 transited from the Sun to Earth in record time and accidentally detonated numerous U.S. Navy sea mines in North Vietnam?
- ALT2:... that the solar storm of August 1972, which accidentally detonated numerous U.S. Navy sea mines in North Vietnam, was caused by a coronal cloud with the fastest transit time ever recorded?
- ALT3:... that a coronal cloud with the fastest transit time ever recorded caused the solar storm of August 1972 and accidentally detonated numerous U.S. Navy sea mines in North Vietnam?
Created by SusanLesch (talk) and Evolauxia (talk). Nominated by Evolauxia (talk) at 20:06, 18 November 2018 (UTC).
| General: Article is new enough and long enough |
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Policy compliance:
- Adequate sourcing:
- Neutral:
- While there is no bias, some word choices such as apparently, major event (and the subsequent description), and so bright may need a further look per MOS:WTW and perhaps could be replaced with more neutral and concrete terms. - Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:
Hook eligibility:
- Cited:
- Interesting:
- Other problems: - The hooks need to be shorter; all of them are over 200 characters and ALT1 is almost 300. Also, only one ellipsis is needed, and perhaps run a grammar check (I think a few commas need to be added, but the content itself looks fine).
| QPQ: Done. |
Overall: 
The article itself also may need a bit of work in syntax, grammar, and formatting, though it is well-cited and covers the most important points. A shortened version of ALT1 with these changes looks promising for DYK. Indeed, that hook caught my interest when browsing this page to do a review. ComplexRational (talk) 22:41, 20 November 2018 (UTC)
Ready for new review. -SusanLesch (talk) 15:21, 23 November 2018 (UTC) Minor copyediting complete to address neutrality comment. Entire article expanded and assessed to B-Class. Hooks have all been shortened. -SusanLesch (talk) 15:06, 26 November 2018 (UTC)
