Template:Did you know nominations/Black coral
- 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 Yoninah (talk) 08:15, 16 June 2020 (UTC)
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Black coral
Deep-sea Antipathes dendrochristos
- ... that boiling black coral (example pictured) in milk will emit a faint scent of myrrh? Source: [1]
- ALT1:... that some deep-sea black corals (example pictured) can live to be thousands of years old? Source: [2]
- Reviewed: Not required as this is my first DYK.
- Comment: This is for the article on an order of corals that recently passed GA.
Improved to Good Article status by Aven13 (talk). Self-nominated at 19:20, 25 May 2020 (UTC).
- I'm starting this review now, will get back once it's done. Yakikaki (talk) 16:23, 26 May 2020 (UTC)
New enough (promoted to GA on 25 May), long enough and certainly within policy; it's a well-written article. Picture is public domain. Nominator writes it's their first DYK, so no QPQ needed. Both hooks are hooky and supported by inline citations. Regarding ALT1 however, I wonder if it would not be more correct to write "... that some deep-sea black corals" given that the source used to support the claim doesn't state that this is true for all black corals? So I'd say it's good to go for original hook, but needs a "some" in ALT1 for that hook to work out really well. Good work on the article, by the way! Yakikaki (talk) 17:48, 26 May 2020 (UTC)
- Yes, you're right, I've added the "some". Thank you!