Talk:List of cranes

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Date	Process	Result
October 21, 2023	Featured list candidate	Promoted

A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on September 15, 2023.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that the Siberian crane is considered more threatened than the whooping crane, despite there being an estimated ten times more of them?

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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 Vaticidalprophet (talk) 04:37, 9 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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... that the whooping crane is considered less threatened than the Siberian crane, despite having an estimated population over ten times smaller than the latter? Source: BirdLife International (2020). "Grus americana". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T22692156A181242855. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T22692156A181242855.en.
BirdLife International (2018). "Leucogeranus leucogeranus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T22692053A134180990. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T22692053A134180990.en.
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/José Cobo Cano
- Comment: Not really sure how to link the target, since I can't reasonably incorporate "list of cranes" into an interesting hook.

Created by AryKun (talk). Self-nominated at 13:41, 3 September 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/List of cranes; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.[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: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall:

@AryKun: Good article. Onegreatjoke (talk) 17:09, 7 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]