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A fact from Sydney asbestos crisis appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 28 March 2024 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the Sydney asbestos crisis started when a child brought home handfuls of mulch from a playground?

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Name of article

"Asbestos mulch crisis" seems to be the media's preferred term, but open to better ideas. "Scandal" might work, "disaster" seems a bit overblown. Jpatokal (talk) 00:48, 22 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I get better search results on "Sydney Asbestos Crisis". I'd suggest per WP:COMMONNAME that's what the article name should be. TarnishedPath^talk 04:44, 26 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The article has been moved. Jpatokal (talk) 20:42, 1 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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 AirshipJungleman29 talk 15:57, 22 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Warning sign for asbestos-contaminated mulch in Sydney

... that the Sydney asbestos crisis started when a child brought home handfuls of mulch from a playground? Source: "In January, an Australian child innocently brought home a couple of handfuls of garden mulch from near a playground in Sydney's inner west. Looking at the mulch, the child's parent was horrified to spot what looked like chunks of bonded asbestos. Their call to authorities has since revealed a contamination crisis..."^[1]
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Bob Moore (American food executive)

Created by Jpatokal (talk). Self-nominated at 05:39, 24 February 2024 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Sydney asbestos crisis; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.[reply]

References

^ Turnbull, Tiffanie (19 February 2024). "Sydney asbestos scare: How a mulch discovery has sent a city scrambling". BBC News. Archived from the original on 21 February 2024. Retrieved 22 February 2024.

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:

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

QPQ: Done.

Overall:

7th nom, so not required to do 2:1 QPQs. Cool that you got an image of one of the closures, although I'm not sure how interesting it'd be on the Main Page; but, up to the promoter. This is a good article, and if you keep it updated as the story develops and maintain this level of quality, it could eventually be a capital-G Good Article. It also cites someone named Tamsin, which, to be honest, would have made this an automatic pass regardless. -- Tamzin^{[cetacean needed]} (they|xe) 05:53, 11 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

[bbc-1] Turnbull, Tiffanie (19 February 2024). "Sydney asbestos scare: How a mulch discovery has sent a city scrambling". BBC News. Archived from the original on 21 February 2024. Retrieved 22 February 2024.

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