Template:Did you know nominations/Afghan snowfinch
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The result was: promoted by Hawkeye7 (talk) 21:11, 3 September 2014 (UTC)
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Afghan snowfinch
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- ... that the Afghan snowfinch (pictured) is the only bird endemic to Afghanistan?
5x expanded by Innotata (talk). Self nominated at 06:22, 2 September 2014 (UTC).
Newly expanded enough; neutral; no close-paraphrasing, copyvio or plagiarism from the sources I could check (I corrected one instance); hook fact cited and accurate. The illustration would appear quite well at DYK resolution I think if you wanted to add it. The QPQ claim looks a bit cheeky as you seem to have just checked the hooks made sense rather than carrying out a full review (correct me if I'm wrong, but not by beating me with wet celery, I'm fed up with that).
- A couple of points about the text:
- I'm not clear on the alternative names from the lead (is it ever called Theresa's ground-sparrow for example, as this is one possible reading of the naming section); maybe a more expanded version of the other names could be included in the "Taxonomy" section
- "The alarm call is a sharp tsi, and they make soft quaak calls in flight, and a stridulating zig-zig." Stridulation is creating a noise by rubbing body parts together; is this what is happening here? Belle (talk) 09:40, 2 September 2014 (UTC)
- Added the image. Well, I've reviewed a lot more noms than I've submitted, how about this? I'm pretty sure all of the combinations of names have been used at least once; it'd be annoying to list out (even in the taxonomy section) eight very similar names, because one hasn't been used. I assumed whoever added that meant "stridulant", but I'll wait until I have a source to improve the bit on its voice—and this isn't a GA review ;) —innotata 16:02, 2 September 2014 (UTC)
- "Strident" maybe? (and haven't you heard? DYK is much worse than GA these days. We have QPQ sniffer dogs, we are introducing full article scanners to detect unreliable sources next week and then cavity searches for concealed plagiarism the week after. [holds up hand and pings rubber glove against wrist]) Belle (talk) 17:01, 2 September 2014 (UTC)
Ready to go with original hook and pic. Belle (talk) 17:01, 2 September 2014 (UTC)