Template:Did you know nominations/Aid climbing
- 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 22:36, 17 July 2024 (UTC)
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Aid climbing
... that in 1993, Lynn Hill became the first person to free climb The Nose (pictured), one of the most famous aid climbing routes on El Capitan?
- Source: Outside Magazine, PlanetMountain, Gripped Magazine
- Reviewed:
Improved to Good Article status by Aszx5000 (talk).
Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has less than 5 past nominations.
Aszx5000 (talk) 13:45, 23 June 2024 (UTC).
Approving nomination. Article is long enough and promoted to GA 1 day before DYK nom. Article is well-sourced, presentable, and copyvio-free (excluding quoted section). Hook is interesting and well-sourced. Image meets criteria. QPQ not needed. Good to go. Thank you for you nomination Aszx5000! Kimikel (talk) 02:35, 1 July 2024 (UTC)
- Poking my nose in while promoting hooks to prep - this hook seems to not really be about the bolded subject, which is aid climbing. The hook reads as though the bolded article should be Lynn Hill or maybe free climbing. Is there another hook possible that focuses more directly on aid climbing? Premeditated Chaos (talk) 22:21, 14 July 2024 (UTC)
- @Premeditated Chaos:, I understand your point but I offered that hook as the whole affair was one of the biggest moments in modern rock climbing history. Some alternatives are:
- ALT1 ... that Jim Bridwell's 1975 aid climbing route, Sea of Dreams, was the first "if you fall, you die" pitch on El Capitan (pictured - same as above) ?
- ALT2 ... that the aid climbing routes on the Great Trango Tower (pictured) are some of the longest vertical big wall climbs in the world?
- @Premeditated Chaos:, I understand your point but I offered that hook as the whole affair was one of the biggest moments in modern rock climbing history. Some alternatives are:
- Poking my nose in while promoting hooks to prep - this hook seems to not really be about the bolded subject, which is aid climbing. The hook reads as though the bolded article should be Lynn Hill or maybe free climbing. Is there another hook possible that focuses more directly on aid climbing? Premeditated Chaos (talk) 22:21, 14 July 2024 (UTC)
Great Trango Tower, Pakistan
- Would any of those work? thanks. Aszx5000 (talk) 13:42, 15 July 2024 (UTC)
- Yup, I think either of those would work nicely. I leave it to the promoter to pick between them; I'll strike ALT0. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 00:42, 16 July 2024 (UTC)
- Premeditated Chaos, just to clarify, you have reviewed and approved ALT1 & 2? ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 13:16, 16 July 2024 (UTC)
- AirshipJungleman29 I know this has been promoted already. Sorry for not responding, I wasn't able to be onwiki for a couple days. Yes, I had reviewed and approved them. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 14:01, 18 July 2024 (UTC)
- Premeditated Chaos, just to clarify, you have reviewed and approved ALT1 & 2? ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 13:16, 16 July 2024 (UTC)
- Yup, I think either of those would work nicely. I leave it to the promoter to pick between them; I'll strike ALT0. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 00:42, 16 July 2024 (UTC)