Talk:Montagne d'Or mine

A fact from Montagne d'Or mine appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 2 May 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that there is a mountain of gold in France?

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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 Kingsif (talk) 21:09, 26 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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... that there is a mountain of gold in French Guiana?
- ALT1:... that there is a mountain of gold in France?

Reviewed: Protected Forests (Japan)
Comment: ALT1 depends on the fact that French Guiana is an overseas region of France

5x expanded by Cwmhiraeth (talk). Self-nominated at 08:41, 18 April 2021 (UTC).[reply]

Article is freshly expanded and long enough. Article has sufficient inline citations (my French skills are limited, but I could grasp enough to verify they are appropriate; and anyway I would assume good faith), and the Earwig tool found no issues. QPQ provided. I do, however, have a slight issue with the hooks:

The title "Montagne d'Or" is French for "mountain of gold". This seems quite obvious to us, but for someone with zero French skills it won't. So I suggest you add a sentence or phrase that explicitly explains how the name translates as "mountain of gold" into English. I am furthermore hesitant on ALT1 which sounds more "hooky", but is a bit tricky as most people will assume "France" refers to mainland France, even though it is technically correct. I'd propose something like "in a region (or departement) of France" as an alternative, where the added words prepare the reader that the location might not exactly be Paris.

Not directly related to this review, but @Cwmhiraeth you might consider updating that last paragraph with info from this and/or this source(s), which indicate that the court order might not be followed. There's also a minor issue in the infobox, where the "bottom" from "pushpin_map_caption" seems to have sneaked (or snuck?) into the visible article. I'm not sure what exactly is wrong there, but maybe you can figure it out.

Note: This is my first DYK review, and I am open to criticism and/or a second opinion. --LordPeterII (talk) 17:04, 23 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@LordPeterII: Thank you for the review. I have dealt with most of the issues you raised but I haven't changed ALT1. Whoever promotes this nomination can choose which hook they like, and if they chose ALT1, I guess it would be put in the "quirky" 8th slot of the DYK set. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 19:23, 23 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Alright, the issues are solved and the article is ready to go. You are right about the promoter's choice, and ALT1 isn't wrong or anything.

Btw, just an idea: ALT1 might actually be eligible for a (comparably tame) April's Fool hook, but I'm not sure. @Cwmhiraeth, would you be interested in that? Otherwise, it can just go to the regular queue. --LordPeterII (talk) 19:39, 23 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

April fool's day is an awfully long way away, so I think not. They might have started mining by then! Cwmhiraeth (talk) 19:44, 23 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Good point ^^ Well, then the regular DYK section will get an interesting hook. --LordPeterII (talk) 21:02, 23 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]