Template:Did you know nominations/August 2020 Midwest derecho

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• which?] that needs to be resolved. The hook isn't the most interesting fact in the article; I think one about the scope of agricultural damage would be better. Same for the image. There are probably many more people who should get credit for this article; theoretically everyone who contributed significant readable prose between the creation and the nomination could get credit. John P. Sadowski (NIOSH) (talk
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Gwenhope: To propose a different hook just write a response with "ALT1:" and the new hook after it. You can edit the wikitext above to add more contributors, but if you're not comfortable doing that, just list them in a response and I'll take care of adding them above. John P. Sadowski (NIOSH) (talk

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Gwenhope: I added credit for ChessEric and Oliveleaf4. I'd suggest an ALT hook myself, but then it would have to wait for someone else to approve it, since I can't approve mt own hook. Also, keep in mind that the image needs to display well at the ~140px size above, otherwise it won't be promoted along with the hook (which is not a big deal though). John P. Sadowski (NIOSH) (talk

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Okay, within policy, Earwig finds no copyvios, QPQ done, hooks and images check out. I tweaked ALT2 because the "hundreds of bushels" seemed to refer to corn in general rather than storage space. John P. Sadowski (NIOSH) (talk) 01:47, 26 August 2020 (UTC)

Hi, I came by to promote ALT2 with the image of the flattened Iowa cornfield. But the source doesn't say anything about 100 million bushels in one day, and the image needs to appear in the article to qualify for DYK. Yoninah (talk) 18:36, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

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• Please do not edit over existing alts. It makes it impossible to follow the discussion. I restored the thread and added your new alt as ALT2a. Yoninah (talk) 11:54, 1 September 2020 (UTC)

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  inline cite that supports your hook fact. Thanks, Yoninah (talk
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• ALT2b is excellent, thank you! Hook ref verified and cited inline. I tweaked the hook and reduced the overlinking. Image of corn field is freely licensed. ALT2b good to go with the image. Yoninah (talk) 21:13, 1 September 2020 (UTC)

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  Gwenhope: now we're just waiting for another editor to promote this to a prep set. From there it will eventually appear on the main page and you will get a notification on your talk page. Best, Yoninah (talk
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  prep set or queue, other editors may comment on it and tweak the wording. We want to have as many eyes as possible on a nomination to spot potential errors. Best, Yoninah (talk
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  WP:DYK#Eligibility criteria #3). So after we worked all that out, I gave an approval tick and thus became a second reviewer. Now we are waiting for a prep builder. Yoninah (talk
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