Talk:Solar eclipse of September 10, 1923

A fact from Solar eclipse of September 10, 1923 appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 2 November 2023 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that scientists traveled thousands of miles to observe the solar eclipse of September 10, 1923, from Santa Catalina Island, but saw only clouds?

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The result was: promoted by Vaticidalprophet talk 03:48, 26 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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... that scientists traveled thousands of miles to observe the solar eclipse of September 10, 1923 from Santa Catalina Island but instead saw only clouds? Source: "SUN'S FROLIC PRIVATE". The Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles, California. 1923-09-11. p. 2. Retrieved 2023-10-15 – via Newspapers.com.
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Spotify Wrapped
- Comment: Stretching it a bit with this one, pardonne-moi.

Expanded from redirect by JPxG (talk). Self-nominated at 02:25, 24 October 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Solar eclipse of September 10, 1923; 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: @JPxG: Converted Redirect. Interesting hook. Have a look at the high Earwig score. Might be copied from Archives New Zealand? Lightburst (talk) 18:12, 24 October 2023 (UTC) Lightburst (talk) 18:12, 24 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

That specific phrasing looks to be shared boilerplate between a lot of eclipse articles. Given the fact it's a Flickr post, it's almost certainly copied from Wikipedia rather than the other way around (I don't see any indication poking around the ANZ site that they wrote it). Vaticidalprophet 19:54, 24 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Lightburst: That string in particular is shared by nearly all eclipse articles; an en-wp search for the string A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth gives about 500 verbatim results. The oldest of them is Solar eclipse of March 29, 2006, which in 2015 used Template:Total solar eclipse summary, which -- looks like it was deleted -- but when it got substed in April 2015 it said the same thing it does now, meaning that either the Flickr upload from October 16 either copied straight from it, or that great minds thought alike :^) jp×g 21:53, 24 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the editor checks. Happy to approve. Lightburst (talk) 22:12, 24 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]