Talk:Hanging Stone

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Did you know... that groups of tourists have unsuccessfully tried to push the Hanging Stone (pictured) into the lake below?

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Did you know nomination

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 DirtyHarry991 talk 07:37, 28 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Hanging Stone

... that groups of tourists have attempted to push the Hanging Stone (pictured) off of its perch and into the lake below, but they were not successful? Source: Unfortunately, too many people wanted to try to throw the Hanging Stone down. They even specially lifted winches into the mountains to do this. Nothing worked out for them. But the stone stopped swinging - the grooves around it in the places of adhesion to the rock were filled with stone chips. and so far failed to submit to gravity or the efforts of groups of tourists to dislodge it.
- ALT1: ... that the 500-ton Hanging Stone (pictured) is attached to a cliff by a 1 m² (11 sq ft) contact point? Source: The weight of this stone is about 500 tons. and Hanging Rock 'defies gravity', above a 1,000 metre abyss... The impressive stone has a contact area of only one square metre with the rock-face
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Bartow–Pell Mansion
- Comment: There is another image available in the article if someone cares to use it.

Moved to mainspace by Bruxton (talk). Self-nominated at 17:57, 11 January 2024 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Hanging Stone; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.[reply]

Reviewing. Airborne84 (talk) 23:03, 13 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook eligibility:

Cited:
Interesting:
Other problems:

Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
Freely licensed: Used in article: Clear at 100px:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Overall good, just need to finalize the hook wording. Article is new and long enough. Primarily sourced by non-English-language sources, but hook is cited with the Siberian Times article in English. Earwig check fine, no picture issues, and QPQ complete. The hooks are interesting, but a bit wordy. I offer some alternatives below for Bruxton.

ALT0a: ... that groups of tourists have unsuccessfully tried to push the Hanging Stone (pictured) into the lake below?
ALT1a: ... that the 500-ton Hanging Stone (pictured) is attached by a 1 m² (11 sq ft) contact point? Airborne84 (talk) 13:16, 14 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Airborne84: That works. I also changed the conversion in ALT1, 1a, and the article, from one meter to one square meter. Bruxton (talk) 14:54, 14 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. DYK ready. I prefer ALT0a, but ALT1a is fine as well. I will leave the final choice to the promoter. Airborne84 (talk) 19:39, 14 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]