Talk:Ciudad Juárez cobalt-60 contamination incident

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A fact from Ciudad Juárez cobalt-60 contamination incident appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 6 March 2022 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the Ciudad Juárez cobalt-60 contamination incident was caused when radioactive material ended up in a junkyard and was smelted to produce rebar?

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The result was: promoted by Theleekycauldron (talk) 10:50, 25 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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... that the Ciudad Juárez cobalt-60 contamination incident was caused when radioactive material ended up in a junkyard and it was smelted to produce rebar? Source: "Most of the cobalt 60 pellets were scooped up by a giant junkyard magnet, mixed in with other scrap metal and taken to two Mexican foundries, where they were melted into steel reinforcement rods and restaurant table legs." NYT
- ALT1: ... that the "Mexican Chernobyl" was caused when radioactive material ended up in a junkyard and it was smelted to produce rebar? Source: Same as above. The "Mexican Chernobyl" name is sometimes used by the press.[1]
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Charles William Warner

Created by 219.91.135.57 (talk). Nominated by Tbhotch (talk) at 03:45, 11 February 2022 (UTC).[reply]

Wow! I had never heard of this before, and that's scary! New enough into mainspace and long enough. Sources check out, and I would support ALT1 given a search and its use by other media. No technical issues. I suspect we'll see this at DYKSTATS... Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 06:13, 13 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
- @Tbhotch: looks like the first paragraph in "Aftermath" is unsourced, could that be cleared up first? Also, I'm not seeing the hook citation at the end of the sentence in article, but that could just be me... theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (she/they) 06:45, 21 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  - @Theleekycauldron: Added source to the paragraph / added source to the lede. (CC) Tbhotch^™ 19:28, 21 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    - 'preciate it, Tbhotch :) theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (she/they) 00:05, 22 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

ALT0 to T:DYK/P7

"Mexican Chernobyl", really ?

We have one reference to one fringe website : this seems a bit thin to phrase it as *sometimes* or to warrant the bold words in the first sentence.--Noliscient (talk) 11:24, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Noliscient: Is the BBC "fringe"?. I merely linked Cultura Colectiva as it was the first immediately in English source I found. So please, don't assume things just because you can assume things. (CC) Tbhotch^™ 19:19, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Lo siento, no hablo español, pero Aunque no tiene una comparación con la explosión de un reactor nuclear seems an appropriate precaution. Still not worthy of being bolded in the introductive summary of an encyclopedic article, in my very humble and non Mexican opinion. --Noliscient (talk) 12:41, 7 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]