Template:Did you know nominations/Squirrels on college campuses

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The result was: promoted by Theleekycauldron (talk) 07:27, 1 July 2023 (UTC)

Squirrels on college campuses

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• ... that research conducted in 2020 about squirrels found they are "nearly ubiquitous" on college campuses in the United States and Canada? Source: Peplinski, Joy; Brown, Joel S (August 31, 2020). "Distribution and diversity of squirrels on university and college campuses of the United States and Canada". Journal of Mammalogy. 101 (4). Oxford University Press (published March 27, 2020): 930–940. doi:10.1093/jmammal/gyaa033. Retrieved May 27, 2023.
  • ALT1: ... that squirrels on college campuses will eat trash or even boldly steal food from humans? Source: Rimbach, Rebecca; Butler, Gabrielle; Gupte, Pratik R.; Jäger, Jörg; Parker, Claire; Pontzer, Herman (2023). "Gray squirrels consume anthropogenic food waste most often during winter". Mammalian Biology. 103 (1) (published November 4, 2022): 69–81. doi:10.1007/s42991-022-00326-3. PMC 9638426. PMID 36373055. and https://mndaily.com/268832/arts-entertainment/the-extraordinary-life-of-the-campus-squirrel/
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Kawa model Soulbust (talk) 06:38, 4 June 2023 (UTC)
  • Comment: Was planning on nominating this earlier but was attending to other articles/projects on Wikipedia and then offline life came up yesterday, so I believe this is now an 8-day-old article as opposed to a week or less. But was hoping given the quirkiness of the topic, WP:IAR can apply here?

Will be doing QPQ shortly. QPQ now done. Soulbust (talk) 06:38, 4 June 2023 (UTC) Created by Soulbust (talk). Self-nominated at 06:23, 4 June 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Squirrels on college campuses; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.

• General eligibility:
• New enough: - At 8 days this is late, but supplementary guideline D9 (newness IAR) can apply here, so Y
• Long enough:
• Other problems:

Policy compliance:

• Adequate sourcing:
• Neutral:
• Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing: - The "each tree, building, sidewalk, and other structure" sentence needs to be reworded, but otherwise this passes Earwig.
• Other problems:

Hook eligibility:

• Cited:
• Interesting:
• Other problems:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: This article is quite fun. I'm not thrilled about the U.S./Canada focus, but see that the issue was raised on the talk page and an effort was made to address it. The lead section could really benefit from a bit of expansion to better summarize the article. I don't find the ALT1 hook to be particularly interesting. ALT0 works, but a hook with something about colleges using their squirrel populations in admissions videos or college squirrels losing their fear of humans could also work here. Overall, this article is a joy. Well done. gobonobo ^{+ c} 04:07, 26 June 2023 (UTC)

Close paraphrase has been addressed. gobonobo ^{+ c} 12:29, 26 June 2023 (UTC)